3. My attention was first drawn to this kind of 'empty' ('zero') glyph space when considering the Keiti (E) text. Just like the text on the P tablet it is complete - except for a 'singularity':
I decided not to count the vacant place. The sum 290 for the first 8 lines on the tablet seemed persuasive. Number must play some role, because 628 / 2 = 314 (= 100 * π). The vacant position in the E text comes after number 256 + 4 = 260, a number used by the Mayas when they combined 13 with 20 in their tzolkin calendar.
The Polynesians saw Antares as the beginning of summer and 26 (its declination) could therefore have been combined with 10 into 260 as a measure for the length of summer:
If so, then there could be an association from 256 (= 4 * 4 * 4 * 4) to 260 because 256 + 4 = 260. Number 4 here precedes 260 in a way reminiscent of how the 4 'Bacabs' will be there before Sky can be raised properly. Therefore, I concluded, the empty glyph space had been created to draw attention not only to 260 but also to 628 = 2 * 314, the perfect Sign for the completion of a circle. Judging from these two cases, one in the E text and one in the P text, we can assume that a 'singularity' (a single empty space in the text with more or less visible glyphs on either side) was meant to stimulate the reader to count. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
