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Like on the Pachamama statue we find calendar data on the 'skirt': 6 solar heads indicate that the year has 6 solar double-months (12 eyes for a year). The two 'strongly curved fishes' are located in the horizontal middle between the two groups of 3 solar double-months, quite in agreement with what we would expect if we saw them as haga marking the solstices. The lower one is then presumably winter solstice and the one on the breast the summer solstice.

As on the statue of Pachamama it is impossible to present and discuss everything at once. Just a few essentials we have time and space for. And then I must chose the 'staffs' in the hands of the sun god. The one in his right hand (notice: just thumb + 3 fingers) has 6 henua of which 3 (the ones down below the thumbs) are black.

The 'staff' in his left hand (left is the orientation which is 'dark', 'sinister') has the Y-sign at the top. Below his left hand thumb there are 3 black henua, just as on the right hand staff. Above his thumb there are just 2 henua, both black and long.

I don't know for sure, but the impression is that the 'staff' in his right hand represents the light season between spring and autumn equinox (light half the days and black - the nights - the rest of the days); notice the semicircle at the top. The 'staff' in his left hand, then, represents the dark season between autumn equinox and spring equinox, a season which should be split in two: the quarter up to the end of the old year and the quarter from new year until spring equinox. Y marks the five days for death and rebirth.