There has been a problem which has bothered me. Therefore I have not yet here (in my 'work book') included the item for GD24 in my dictionary. The problem was whether in GD24 the ends 'with holes' meant 'holes' or whether the ends only were symbols for the 'eye' of the sun. But this night in my sleep I 'saw the light' and woke up in order that my conscious mind also should understand. Prompted by this 'knee'-glyph and my reading of Posnansky and Hancock 3 (I also once again am rereading Hamlet's Mill - in parallel with the two mentioned books) the solution to the problem arrived by the solution to another problem: The 'path of the sun' in the Gateway of the Sun is 'false' in a way. There is no difference between the right and left sides (excepting those two birds at right flowing towards the left instead of towards the right) and that is obviously wrong. The time from spring equinox to autumn equinox is not the same as the time from autumn equinox to spring equinox. Why have they made right and left sides alike? I believe the answer is not only because of a wish for symmetry. I think it goes deeper than that. You cannot in a grand picture of the Sun show the time when he doesn't rule, when he is absent (from us). Therefore only the time from spring equinox to autumn equinox is relevant. (Similar to the way in which in the calendar of the day in Q only the time until noon is relevant.) So the right side is just a mirror-image of the left (from us seen of course). 'After noon the real sun is not there.' The mirror-image must however be there in order to show the 'circular path' of the sun. The images for September and March are exactly right-left symmetrical. The face of the real sun is seen in toto, no part is mirrored. The real path of the sun therefore includes the whole months of September and March and it covers 8 months. The real path of the sun has a bulge at left (from us seen) corresponding to summer solstice. The highest point of the path lies there. If we straighten this bulge out we get the picture in GD24. There are no 'holes' at the ends of GD24, just symbols of the sun. |