The September equinox could be imagined as a closed fist, but I cannot detect any such sign in the glyph text. Instead the ihe tau form in Cb7-15 is the same as all the other such glyphs in the line. It could mean the creator of the C text had no intention of representing September 22 as any specal day. The glyph Cb7-15 shows no sign of being at the equinox:
This is in contrast to the quite special glyph Cb7-12 (or to the quite special glyph Cb7-11 if we should regard March 20 as the correct equinox date). It suggests the glyphs are connected with the dates and stars which I have arranged at the other side of the year, in the bottom pair of rows in my presentations. However, there is another possibility, viz. that these glyphs are to be read in pairs. And there are 12 such pairs, perhaps with each pair representing a month:
The 7th of these pairs could be a special case because it could mark the beginning of the 2nd half of the year:
When Metoro said tagata ka pau at Cb7-23 he could have counted 72 * 3 = 216 (= 3 / 5 * 360) and then decided summer was finished (as regarded from a point north of the equator). Or he could have connected the heliacal rising of Mimosa in September 30 with the final of the northern summer. Or he could have thought of η Andromedae at the opposite side of the year as a star which - when rising with the Sun - would mean summer south of the equator had ended. But for the Arabs it meant summer had arrived:
The Chinese had their 15th lunar station Legs here and possibly the sitting figure - with legs in front - refers to η Andromedae rather than to Mimosa.
In order to distinguish the Chinese from the Hindu lunar stations I have decided to paint them green. The word pau means 'empty' and ka could mean to light a fire. But I guess Metoro here used the word as an emphatic, '(a completed) person, tagata, (which shows that) indeed, ka, (the halfyear is) finished, pau'.
In its context his words could refer either to the last day of September or to the first day of April. The latter seems more plausible. North of the equator the season of 'water' was over (with ω Aquarii in March 15) and when 'land' had once again been drawn up from the 'sea' the fins would change to legs: ... During his descent the ancestor still possessed the quality of a water spirit, and his body, though preserving its human appearance, owing to its being that of a regenerated man, was equipped with four flexible limbs like serpents after the pattern of the arms of the Great Nummo. The ground was rapidly approaching. The ancestor was still standing, his arms in front of him and the hammer and anvil hanging across his limbs. The shock of his final impact on the earth when he came to the end of the rainbow, scattered in a cloud of dust the animals, vegetables and men disposed on the steps. When calm was restored, the smith was still on the roof, standing erect facing towards the north, his tools still in the same position. But in the shock of landing the hammer and the anvil had broken his arms and legs at the level of elbows and knees, which he did not have before. He thus acquired the joints proper to the new human form, which was to spread over the earth and to devote itself to toil ... The 12th Chinese station was Rooftop and a Swallow was close to the Rainbow in the Babylonian zodiac:
Our pair of fishes in Pisces were evidently in the Babylonian view a Swallow (the southern fish) and Anunitum (the northern fish). Our other fish in the south, Piscis Austrinus (upside down and reversed) is swallowing the last drops from the Urn of Aquarius, while the Babylonians had the beak of their Swallow close to the inundated Field. Instead Piscis Austrini - Fish - was the foundation upon which the Great One (probably our Aquarius) was standing. We can read that the Swallow is even farther down than the inundated Field. It means a situation in which everything is totally upside down (like in ancient Egypt). Birds should be high up and not at the bottom. As I remember it ancient folklore had it that swallows in winter hibernated at the bottom of lakes instead of migrating southwards. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
