4. The lower bowl has its strings oriented not from above and downwards as in the higher bowl but from right to left, an effect caused by a quick push from the right big toe of Virgo:
The beads outside the lower bowl are at right and we should count them and compare with those outside the upper bowl:
By subtracting the number of beads outside the rim of the lower bowl from those outside the upper bowl number 30 can be 'explained' as 26 + 4. The L and C strings of the lower bowl generates 26 in a way which is similar to how 2 fortnights will generate 28. 26 could have been a 'signature' of the south half of the sky globe, equal to the declination of Antares:
Outside corresponds to 'out in the light' in contrast to the darkness inside (before electric lights arrived). At the time of the heliacal risng of Antares Sun was imagined as bringing the light of summer (south of the equator). | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
