5. If we look for clues on the other side of the earth, in ancient Egypt - and 108° east of the Candelabra of the Andes - we should remember the arched back of the goddess of night whoe's toes and fingertips are in contact with earth:
Nut has her mouth closed and her face looking down, not like kiore who has his mouth open and who is looking up:
The arched back of kiore could refer to the sky dome and the straight 'tree' could be the flat earth below the sky, which he - like Nut - is supported by. Metoro was quite clear about the meaning of the glyph type as henua (earth). In the 'spring time' ship of Pharaoh he is sitting in the center with one goddess in front and one at his back. All are uplifted by rectangular 'pedestals' (which do not occur in the 'autumn' ship). This raises the difficult question if we should imagine the glyph type kiore + henua turned 90° to the right in order to appreciate its true meaning.
By the way, Eb4-1 'happens' to be glyph number 108 counted from Eb1-1, located at a place in the text where Metoro suddenly read the glyph from right to left instead of in the normal way, and it was certainly a sign intended to communicate something important to Bishop Jaussen. The question of the orientation of the glyph type can possibly be answered by stating that in the male sky of spring sunlight a henua sign should be like a stick standing straight up to raise the sky roof. At summer solstice, on the other hand, 'death' must cause this 'tree' to fall down flat into a horizontal (female) posture. During the night there is a reversal, with sky now belonging to Moon, and below her lies the flat earth dormant. |
