4. The
corner at midsummer is easily understood, it is
the point where Sun turns around from rising to
descending. We have tentatively located it
at tamaiti immediately beyond
the end of the henua calendar:
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Ga7-11 (181) |
Ga7-12 |
Ga7-13 |
Ga7-14 |
Counted from Rogo in
Gb6-26 day number 240 is ariki in the preceding glyph. I
have suggested - via the star distances - that
Gb6-26 represents Sirrah and day number 1:
present autumn equinox |
present winter solstice |
present spring equinox |
Sirrah |
1 |
- |
Sirius |
102 |
13 |
Spica (3) |
204 |
24 |
Polaris (10) |
28 |
27 |
Procyon (7) |
116 |
14 |
Arcturus (6) |
216 |
12 |
Alcyone |
57 |
29 |
Alphard (5) |
143 |
27 |
Toliman |
222 |
6 |
Aldebaran (2) |
69 |
12 |
Dubhe (4) |
168 |
25 |
Antares (1) |
250 |
28 |
Rigel |
79 |
10 |
Phaed (9) |
180 |
12 |
Alnilam |
85 |
6 |
Betelgeuze (8) |
89 |
4 |
Sirrah is at the border between 'water' and 'land'
and the star pillars
are standing 'on land'. In the sky roof 'land'
is beginning with the square of Pegasus
(diametrically opposed to Virgo and Spica). As
if by chance day
number 204 for Spica happens to
be half 408:
Sirrah (?) |
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Gb6-25 (408) |
Gb6-26 (*1) |
Ana-roto (?) |
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Ga5-29 (*204) |
Ga5-30 (141) |
In a corner there is one side at
left (at the back) and another at right (in
front), therefore it seems reasonable to show
both glyphs. But in Ga5-30 the 'interregnum henua'
probably indicates it is located in
between the 'sides', with the side in front as
the following Ga6-1 (cfr at A Pillar To Stand
By):
117 |
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113 |
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215 |
23 |
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Ga6-1 (142) |
Gb1-26 (256) |
Gb2-1 |
Ga1-23 (24) |
232 = 8 * 29 |
240 = 8 * 30 |
257 - 142 = 115 = 230 / 2.
As a rule of thumb I have
suggested (cfr at 57) that the front side
should be ⅔ of the
whole, which implies we ought to count 204 +
102 = 306 to find out where the cycle ends.
...
Gilgamesh is claimed to have been one of
the earliest kings of Uruk (or Erech).
The circumstances of his fabled birth make him
two-thirds god and one-third man, which makes
him - in the sexagesimal system of Mesopotamia -
two-thirds of 60 (= Anu) = 40, the number
which characterized Enki-Ea, whence the
latter's denomination of 'Shanabi (= ⅔,
i.e., of 60) and Nimin (Sumerian = 40)'
...
This
number leads us to Gb3-15 - in the center
of the 30 glyph long moko line without
any henua signs - where there is another
version of Rogo and where 3-14 (a sign
for π) in the preceding glyph says a cycle
is closed:
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Gb3-12 |
Gb3-13 |
Gb3-14 |
Gb3-15 (306) |
Gb3-16 |
It 'proves' my idea of only ⅓
for the back side. If we count to 306 from
Gb6-26 we will arrive at glyph number 242
counted from
Gb8-30:
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Gb1-9 |
Gb1-10 |
Gb1-11 |
Gb1-12 (242) |
There are 242 glyphs
on side b.
205 at what presumably is the
midsummer apex can be
interpreted as 'one more' because 205 = 204 + 1:
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*Qa7-27 |
*Qa7-28 (*282) |
day 205 = 64 + 282 / 2 |
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Ga7-32 (*266) |
Ga7-33 |
Ga7-34 |
Ga8-1 (205) |
Beyond a corner there should be
a 'child' - because everything begins as a
'child' - and 5 glyphs beyond
Sirrah, in position 'one more' than 14 * 29½ =
413, there is a tamaiti:
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Gb6-25 |
Gb6-26 |
Gb6-27 |
Gb6-28 |
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58 |
180 |
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Gb7-1 |
Gb7-2 |
Gb7-3 (414) |
Ga7-11 (181) |
Ga7-12 |
Ga7-13 |
Ga7-14 |
240 |
Possibly the distance to next
tamaiti was designed to underline there are 240 days on the
front side. There appears to be a connection
between the first and the second tamaiti
because Saturn follows Venus and 3 + 4 = 7. This
'week' begins with Mercury and ends with Mars.
414 - 181 = 233, which number
leads us to yet another Rogo, one
without head:
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Ga8-26 |
Gb1-1 |
Gb1-2 |
Gb1-3 (233) |