Ideas: 2. But the glyph for Venus has her right arm longer (the arm pointing downwards), ending more close to the earth than that in the glyph for Jupiter. I believe this can be read both as a sign that Venus often is close to the horizon in the west - the direction pointing downwards to the underworld - and as a sign (on the earthly plane) that the season to plant has arrived, to put into the ground, to insure a crop next year. |