5. There is an oddity in Saturn not having a longer synodical cycle than Jupiter:
Mars has an even longer synodical period, but that was no problem, because his path involves loops and that takes time:
... Ancient people were fascinated with the periodic backward loops turned by Mars every two years ... How can Saturn rule the last part of the year (and the week etc) when his 'life-span' is shorter than that of Jupiter? Easy to answer, he could be born later than Jupiter. In the Babylonian zodiac the sign of Saturn is located at what I guess is autumn equinox, while the sign of Jupiter is at midsummer. 90 + 378 = 468 > 399.
In the chapter 2 Sticks I have written: ... In Gb8-24 a strange figure (with short wings like those of the 'insect in amber', Ga1-16) is looking back, which must mean day number 466 (= 366 + 100) is a day of finality:
The result of multiplying 11 * 6 = 66 (in Ga1-16) could be a hint that we should search for glyph number 66 beyond 400 ... At Ana-roto I noted: ... In G the first ure is Ga8-17 and the last in Gb8-24:
Excepting Ga8-17 all ure are on side b, and I have listed 40 such on side b. 472 - 220 = 252 = 7 * 36 = 12 * 21. The first 7 glyph lines have no ure, but all the remaining have:
The season of fruits is not spring but autumn ... In Camp 6 I tried to count 3 * 20 glyphs on each side of raaraa in Gb6-20, but was not satisfied with the results, and therefore I changed from 20 to 13 glyphs for each little 'ball'. But something else caught my eye: ... The signs instead seem to say that we should count from Gb4-22 to Gb8-24:
The strange tagata in Gb4-22 is located at day number 343 which is the cube of 7, as if alluding to the ship with 6 decks of Utnapishtim ... At The Tail Feathers number 123 was discussed: ... we ought to find a midpoint 256 / 2 = 128 glyphs from Gb6-20:
I have redmarked 123 as an important number, for instance in:
It is also the difference between 531 (= 3 * 177) and 408. Furthermore, it emerged (cfr at Tagata Gagana) as the number of glyphs from the beginning of side b to the last day of 354, i.e. 123 + 45 = 168:
In the discussion about the 'Sun Yolk' (cfr at The Rain God) I presented 21 glyphs and among them is kara etahi in Aa2-33 with ordinal number 123 ... If we should guess e.g. that Saturn has reached to his end at tagata gagana in Ga1-11 (a Saturday with 11 equal to 'one more' than 10), then his end would be 73 + 12 = 85 days later than the end of Jupiter (at Gb6-16, a Thursday). Counting the rule of Saturn instead based on the visual cues in the glyphs I would, though, rather prefer he had 124 days from Gb4-22 up to and including Gb8-24. This would also agree with the location of Saturn in the Babylonian zodiac. 343 + 64 = 407 could allude to Gb6-24, which then would make us perceive Saturn in Gb6-25:
'The Woman in Chains' (Rogo in Gb6-26) probably identifies the beginning (close to spring equinox north of the equator). |
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