6. There is another hakaturou to be considered, viz. that in Gb1-18:
The position is 206 (= 248 - 42) glyphs after hakaturou in Ga2-11:
There are 206 glyphs also beyond Gb2-10 (266) to the end of side b:
We should insert the supposed calendar days (in 1870) to see what kind of fish-hook there might be in Gb1-18. The date 'July 6 at Gb2-10 can probably be relied upon and therefore we maybe can build a bridge across the distance implied in turning the tablet from side a to side b:
The numbers for these days in 'June are congruent with the numbers for the glyphs in line b1, evidence that the Gregorian calendar was in the mind of the creator of the G text at the beginning of side b. Turning the tablet from side a to side b seems to coincide with an abrupt jump from 'January 8 to 'June 1:
Perihelion would then be at Ga8-22. But another, though less convincing, alternative is to finish at the end of the year and then extrapolate backwards in time from side b in which case the date at Ga8-22 would be 'May 27 (147). 10 feather marks (Sun) in Ga8-16 can be contrasted with 8 feather marks (Moon) in Gb1-1. There is a single head in Ga8-16 but a pair in Gb1-1. The 'fish-hook' with a straight tall neck in Gb1-18 clearly has to do with the solstice, when Sun north of the equator is turning around from rising to descending. This conclusion solves a problem which has bothered me for a long time, viz. what the extraordinary glyph in Gb1-21 might mean:
My rule for finding the date number from the glyph number - in the time of G - must be changed. On side a the rule is to add 80 + 63, e.g. 186 + 143 = 329 for Antares:
On side b we have to subtract 79, e.g. 251 - 79 = 172 at Gb1-21. Or we could add the number of glyphs from Gb1-1 to the day number for 'June 1 (20 + 152 = 172). On side a we can add 80 to the glyph number (counted from Gb8-30) in order to reach the day number in the 'Golden Age', e.g. 186 + 80 = 266 at Antares. 329 - 266 = 63 is the number of days precession has moved the stars (and the 'helions') since then (and up to the time of G). This rule applies also on side b and we can therefore easily go back in time, e.g. at Ga1-21 from 172 to 172 - 63 = 109. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
