I cannot let go of this problem, the structure of the calendar. New ideas keep popping up. 1. The reason that the numbers 27 and 29 (but not 28) is - as it seems - embedded in the calendar, could be the result of a) A wish to indicate that the sequences are not finished; odd numbers, I think, meaning not finished. b) A wish to 'copy' the behaviour of the moon, perhaps even to the point where this is not a calendar at all but a documentation of the observations for a special year. Is it possible to talk about a calendar for use in limited time only? Yes, we do it all the time because each year we have to construct a new almanac, the details are not exactly the same. 2. My difficulties in defining limits between 'a' and 'b' ought to result in a numerical table where I should add the numbers for 'a' and 'b' (for each one of the six periods), leaving 'c' as a separate well defined set of numbers. 3. There are more 'bent sharks' than the one which made me decide to relocate the start glyphs for the calendar. I ought to test if it is not so that every one of those sharks mark the end of a sequence. There really ought to be a clear mark between all sequences, similar to our signs for full stops and commas. The bent shark may be a comma. 4. The result that 76 + 20 = 96 = 116 - 20, together with the fact that 20 is balancing in the middle between two groups of 314 on side b of H (314 + 20 + 314 = 648), should probably be regarded as a marker of some kind, for us to investigate further. Is there any correspondence between these triple 20:s and how the glyphs look? I will now construct a new set of numerical tables for incorporating some of these new ideas. |