1. North of the equator custom was to document periods of time with 'beads': ... The Dakota use a circle as the symbol of time, a smaller one for a year and a larger one for a longer period: the circles are arranged in rows, thus: OOO or O-O-O ... Although other customs were there too: ... Among the Nahyssan of S. Carolina time was measured and a rude chronology arranged by means of strings of leather with knots of various colour, like the Peruvian quipos ... The Pima of Arizona make use of a tally. The year-mark is a deep notch across the stick ... I think the G tablet has 'notches' of a kind which I have come to name 'feather marks', e.g.:
Although the straight lines of tapa mea are of another kind than the curved ones of haś. And yet another kind is the double hanging down 'feathers' in the maro glyph type. Basically such feather marks probably mean periods of time. Having tried to count the beads of Flamsteed's Libra bowls we should now go on and try to count the 'feathers' of the henua calendar, those which evidently are begining where the explorers are lighting a 'Bright Fire' (λ Cancri) to cook their fishes:
There are 4 feathers of the tapa mea kind at the 8h line, at the heliacal rising of the star Heap of Fuel (μ Cancri). In July 27 comes the first of those glyphs on which I intend to count feathers. The star is θ Cancri (which should remind us of the 'θ' formed by the bead string 'crossing station' in the southern bowl of Flamsteed). Wikipedia: Theta ... is the eighth letter of the Greek alphabet, derived from the Phoenician letter Teth:
In the system of Greek numerals it has a value of 9. At the 8h line it is the 9th hour which is beginning. ... The Phoenician letter name Tēth means 'wheel', but the letter possibly (according to Brian Colless) continues a Middle Bronze Age glyph named tab 'good', Tav in Arameic and Tov ... in Hebrew, tayyib ... in modern Arabic, based on the nfr 'good' hieroglyph:
According to Wilkinson (Hieroglyfernas Värld) the origin of the nefer hieroglyph is the heart of a sheep (at bottom) with its throat (the upper part of the sign) attatched. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
