1. A structure describes fundamental relations between elements, and in order to perceive the structure of the G text we should consider the whole text. But as yet we have covered only a part of it. In Dream Voyager we made preliminary investigations of the contents of the lines on the front side (a) and of the lines 1-3 on the back side (b) of the tablet. Then we broke off and instead of continuing with the following glyph lines we began to construct a star list. The stars in the list so far have been put in parallel with glyphs from the end of line b6 to the beginning of line a5, covering slightly more than 6 lines. Each right ascension hour covers about half a month and about half a glyph line. 12h corresponds to ca 182½ days and 182½ / 12 = ca 15.2 days. 12 * 15.2 = 182.4 or ca half a solar year. A basic structural feature is a division in halves, and there are 115 glyphs up to the end of the Lion and 115 after:
87 days beyond June 21 should be spring equinox south of the equator:
94 days before Ga5-5 there is a similar kind of glyph:
A cardinal point is there, we already know, and the heliacal rising of Rigel (β Orionis) can be said to announce the event:
My planetary colours support the interpretation, e.g. with Moon 'finishing the old calabash' in Ga1-19, appropriately the 13th (once there were 13 month in year) in the month of June. A new one is already in his way and waiting to be hatched (cfr the preceding day of Venus). ... Long ago in the very beginning of time there dwelt within a shell an infant god whose name was Ta'aroa. He was Ta'aroa the unique one, the ancestor of all gods, the creator of the universe whose natures were myriad, whose backbone was the ridgepole of the world, whose ribs were its supporters. The shell was called Rumia, Upset. Becoming aware at last of his own existence and oppressed by a yearning loneliness Ta'aroa broke open his shell and, looking out, beheld the black limitless expanse of empty space. Hopefully, he shouted, but no voice answered him. He was alone in the vast cosmos ... |
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