A peculiarity in the G text is the design of its henua glyphs:
The short ends at top and bottom are usually drawn concave. Therefore it is a Sign in G when this is not the case. An example is Ga6-29:
Once again (cfr Ga5-3 and Ka2-12) the measure is 177 (= 6 * 29½). 177 + 56 (8 weeks) = 233. 177 + 56 + 80 = 314 - 1. The creator of the K text used several added signs in his henua glyphs:
Maro feather strings are used in the first week of line a5. Eye-catching is first of all the arrangement in Ka5-5, where the normal soft female string is changed into a hard geometrical design with a vertical line of measurement. This is where the Northern Head of the Lion (μ) is located. But the Southern Head of the Lion (ε) is rising earlier and has its place in the center of the 5-group. In 'August 19 and at the left front paw of the Lion was π Leonis, at a position which in a way resembles the beginning of side b of the G tablet. The preceding tagata glyph has at bottom in front a separate 'leg'. There is a division in time here and we should therefore try to rearrange the 1st week into another pattern:
At my proposed precessional time for K the right ascension line 10h (152.2) would have been in August 20, the day after the heliacal rising of π Leonis. Although the glyphs above possibly suggest a slightly earlier precessional time. (152.2 - 150.6) * 72 = 115.2. 8 'double feathers' adorn the straight vertical line in Ka5-5 (where 5 * 5 = 25, the obvious number for Saturn). On the other side of Ka5-6 a pair of maro strings are growing in front. Moon could rule at left and Sun at right. Moon is used for measuring time and Sun generates growth. In G the description is different:
Instead of a tagata with upraised arms in Gregorian day 230 (Ka5-6) there is a tagata with upraised arms in day 236. Day 150 is, we should remember, May 30, and in Ga1-6 the pair of entities are not designed as a pair of strings (as in Ka5-7), but the basic idea could be the same, viz. to illustrate something in the past (left) followed something in the future (right):
There is a cardinal point at Sheratan 14, perhaps a legacy from the old Roman moon calendar (cfr Line a5). Tagata in Ga1-2 is followed 4 days later by the pair of 'arms' in Gregorian day 150. Tagata in Ga4-1 is likewise followed 4 days later by a pair of arms at 10h. In K the order at first seems to be different, because there are only 2 days from tagata in Ka4-16 to a pair of arms:
However, tagata in Ka4-16 is of a different type, with a kai gesture instead of a pair of upraised arms. Instead we can perceive a mirror pattern, viz. a pair of arms followed 4 days later by upraised arms:
In Ka5-2--6 there are several 'Janus' signs, but not so in the G parallel which comes 6 days later. In G the primary division is where side a turns to side b and a secondary division comes at 8 * 29½ (= 236). In Ka5-6 the separation of the old from the new in Gregorian day 230 is probably illustrated by a little 'severed leg' in front. In Ga4-9 the similar separation in day 236 seems to be visualized by an elbow ornament at left. |
