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4. The preceding exercise did not involve glyph number 266, which I have proposed to be day zero for the antipodal stars:
Although the design of mago in Gb2-10 suggests this is where summer turns into winter and although it is glyph number 266 (counted from Gb8-30) it evidently does not stand at autumn equinox in the text of G (given that we have located winter solstice correctly at Ga1-27--28):
Its position is about a month (28 days) earlier. Therefore its location north of the equator should be about a month before spring equinox:
Glyph number 238 (= 177 + 61) corresponds to a complex glyph appearing just after 8 lunar months (8 * 29½ = 236 days from Gb8-30):
The corresponding time north of the equator could be at glyph number 365 + 61 = 426 if we continue for more than a year. But if we count time from January 1 the number will be 9 less (with 52 instead of 61) - because winter solstice comes 9 days before January 1 - and the corresponding glyph will be Gb7-6:
Raaraa in Gb7-6 is the same type of sign as in the central position of Gb1-8. It probably means we are on the right track. We can use 28 (= 92 - 64) to 'translate' glyph numbers to day numbers according to right ascension but counted from winter solstice:
By assuming winter solstice to be at Ga1-27--28 it necessarily implies we have to reduce the glyph numbers with 28 to find the day numbers counted from winter solstice. And then we can change the perspective to that north of the equator, where 90 days from Gb2-10 - this time presumably at autumn equinox - we could arrive at winter solstice:
Winter solstice north of the equator does not always arrive on December 21 (day number 356), sometimes it comes on December 20 (as for instance in the year 2001). We should therefore think of Gb5-1--2 as the place for the winter solstice according to our own calendar. This is 90 days beyond mago in Gb2-10:
Autumn equinox north of the equator sometimes (e.g. in 2011) comes on September 23. We have evidently succeeded in coordinating our own calendar with that on the G tablet. 354 = 12 * 29½ and then follow 12 days to January 1. Gb5-2 could be said to be at day number 420 (= 356 + 64) counted from spring equinox north of the equator = autumn equinox on Easter Island. 356 - 28 = 328 (= 420 - 92) could be its day number counted from winter solstice (on Easter Island). There are 355 - 294 = 61 days from autumn equinox. Winter solstice should be at glyph number **266 + 92 = **386:
Autumn equinox comes 28 days beyond glyph number 266 and **266 at takaure in Gb3-1 means we have added 64 and subtracted 92 from the glyph number (294). |
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