The first 5 glyphs in line Ka3 evidently form a group:
From July 11 to December 30 (364) there are 172 days and 192 = 172 + 20. Perhaps it indicates a dark month is ending here, 8 weeks from the beginning of the manzil calendar and 20 nights long when Sun is taking a timeout at the solstice. Wasat (the Middle) is a name which agrees with its position in the middle of the year. If the year was measured by lunar synodic months (as 13 * 29½ = 383½ nights) its middle would have been at 191¾, close to the heliacal rising of Propus (the eye of the Red Bird). Earth's aphelion would have occurred around a week earlier. In general the corresponding 5 days in G are depicted in the same way as in K, though the details are quite different, for instance are the hands open in the opposite direction:
This presents us with a real challenge, because the meaning has to be different. Maybe we should perceive a week with 5 + 2 glyphs:
11 means 'one more', a sign of the 'pupil' (next generation). Counting fingers in the 'eating' (kai) gestures there are 4 + 4 + 3 = 11. We can imagine the pair of Moon 'faces' combined with the 3 'feathers' of Sun. ... Time consisted of night + day = 4 + 3 = 7. The Polynesians considered the origin was in the darkest of night, with light arriving only later:
I think the season of the Twins should be encoded by pairs of 11, e.g. as 111.1 at Propus or as 11 * 11 = 121 at Naos. In G the reversed kai fingers are 4 + 4 = 8 with no possibility to add the further 3 from Ga2-19 (because the hand is oppositely oriented). Perhaps 8 (Moon) represents the old (and empty) year in contrast to 3 (Sun) the new (and growing) year:
Castor should be at Ga2-18 (where ihe tau is) and not at Ga2-19. But earlier I solved this mystery - the position of a star needs more than a single glyph:
The pair of twins close together in the picture are obviously female. The male twins are vertically separated with Pollux at bottom, and he is pointing towards Zeus, his immortal father (God of the Light Sky). The top center figure apparently is Amor (an alias for Castor) and he is looking at his mortal (Earth) mother. Life cannot be without death and he has a bow and arrow to prove it. Wasat is at the navel of Pollux. |