A horse, like a bull or a sheep, has 4 legs. Horses walk on earth, they thrive in the middle world. Probably, therefore, Sleipner's 8 legs had to be adapted to this pattern. There are 8 * 59 = 472 glyphs incised on the G tablet. Half this is 236 = 4 * 59. Half 472 could represent 'Earth' (the world in the middle between the Sky with the birds above and the Underworld with the fishes below). With a lunar synodic month approximately 29½ days long, it would have been more convenient to count with pairs of months. The Babylonians counted with 60 days and the Egyptians had a regular year with 360 (= 6 * 60 days) - in a way like 'tau-ono'. If each lunar synodic double-month was equal to a 'zero'-day + 59, then it would have been possible to keep the movements of Sun and Moon in harmony. The 'quadrupedal world' in the center could have had 4 * 60 = 240 nights = 8 months with 30 days in each. If Heke with his 8 arms could keep 240 days in firm order, then he should also have been capable of keeping trace of 8 months measuring 29 days, and 8 * 29 = 232:
I have here counted the glyph number for Gb1-3 from Ga1-1 instead of from the zero-day. The left part in Ga1-1 is similar to the left part in Gb1-2, which arrives 230 days later and 10 lunar synodic months counted from March 21:
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