7. If we exclude the idea of heliacal risings of stars before March 21, then we should in consequence also exclude heliacal risings of stars beyond atumn equinox. Yet, we have continued to map them with fairly good results, and among them we have reached Toliman:
I have here counted the glyphs from Gb8-30. And because I have reduced their heliacal risings with 1 day (to compensate for the effect of precession over the suggested time from the creation of the text) the glyph numbers will be equal to the day numbers minus 143 (instead of 144 based on the current day numbers and heliacal risings). Toliman will thus rise at the position of 'one more', not only compared to day 300 but also compared to 50% * 314. Autumn equinox (day 265 in our calendar) is not the limit for Sun, he will not disappear before Toliman, which at first appears to correspond to the first day of Pax:
Indeed, we ought to be able to continue listing heliacal risings until the beginning of Kayab (where the 'Earth Turtle' seems prepared to 'bite'), because 158 + 19 = 177 (= 6 * 29½):
November 16 is day 320, a nice number, equal to (among other things of course) 4 * 80. Its right ascension day is 320 - 80 = 240. Furthermore, we have seen that Antares is rising 181 days after Aldebaran and therefore the heliacal risings evidently should continue at least to November 25:
By shifting the dates 1 day forward (to compensate for the precession) the hour positions will follow suit and 16h will now coincide with a tamaiti glyph, a kind of confirmation that we are on the right track - tamaiti means 'child' and in the beginning of a season it is still a 'child'. Earlier I have documented the hour lines at the end glyphs, but presumably such lines are to be considered as the beginning of the new hours. 16h and the star θ Lupi should thus be at the beginning of the 17th hour.
329 (November 25) - 143 = 186 (Ga7-16) and 330 (November 26) - 80 = 250 - empty hands are stretched up seemingly in despair (north of the equator). If we should guess November 26 corresponds to the last day of Pax, then there would remain 45 days to the end of the year. And this year would then end in day 330 + 45 = 375 or 10 days beyond day 365. We can conclude such a Mayan year surely should instead begin at winter solstice (north of the equator) and therefore the first day of Pax should be 65 days before December 21 (355), i.e. correspond to October 17 (290):
We ought to be able to count at least to the last day of Pax. 31 (number of days in October) - 17 (day 290) = 14 and 19 - 14 = 5, i.e. we ought to be able to count to November 5 (309) - presumably the last day of Pax. Below I have changed the definition of *229 - and similar numbers with asterisk - to be not glyph number + 64 but instead to be day number - 80. I.e., 72 years ago and at rau hei in Ga6-25 the star λ Lupi was rising heliacally 229 days after March 21:
If the creator of the G text thought also the 20 days of Kayab should be OK for heliacal risings of stars, then we can reach Antares, which would have risen heliacally in day 329 (November 25) about 72 years ago. Ga7-17 should correspond to the first day of Cumhu, with only 25 days remaining to the solstice. We now need to update our total star list and put stars in parallel not only with glyphs but also with calendar dates. But before that we have a small matter to attend to. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
