I earlier thought GD24 could be an image of the two holes the Sun needs to enter and leave this world of ours. But how would then the upper hole become open? Answer: it is instead like the shell of an egg. H and Q seems to illustrate the Sun as an egg and Ha5-53 and Qa5-44 has the open part more egg-like than in Pa5-36. There are, then, two possibilities which can come to mind: 1. We are at noon (first Sun now gone). 2. We are at dawn (first Sun has now hatched himself and is released).
Reasonably the second alternative is the right one. But there may be other explanations. That the Sun seems to be eating (kai) also indicates that it is not yet noon. And I realize that the calendar we are looking at may be a Calendar for the day. Then, also, Aa1-20 with parallel in Pa5-39--40, might show noon, the time when the Sun will turn around and bend off downwards.. But on the other hand the open ring or egg seems also to be found at the start of the Calendar for the year:
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