LARGE ST PETERSBURG (P)
a1	53	53	b1	25	25
a2	59	112	b2	36	61
a3	62	174	b3	39	100
a4	61	235	b4	56	156
a5	80	315	b5	50	206
a6	60	375	b6	59	265
a7	58	433	b7	63	328
a8	55	488	b8	65	393
a9	42	530	b9	50	443
a10	36	566	b10	56	499
a11	33	599	b11	*61	*560
sum	599		sum	560
*19 61 = 1159**

The left (Egyptian X) part of Pa5-72 is held by the right arm of the man in front, demonstrating that it is a single glyph, in contrast to how the corresponding headless figure in Ha6-29 has its arm hanging down, which means it is a separate entity. The structure is similar but the meaning is not the same.

The creator of the Q text (which runs in parallel with the H and P texts) may have been forced to exclude some parts of the story because his tablet could not carry so many glyphs.

SMALL ST PETERSBURG (Q)
a1	*23?	23	b1	51	51
a2	43	66	b2	46	97
a3	41	107	b3	*51?	148
a4	*43?	150	b4	*39?	187
a5	55	205	b5	*42?	229
a6	*49?	254	b6	*33?	262
a7	*41?	295	b7	*39?	301
a8	47	342	b8	32	333
a9	45	387	b9	*12?	345
sum	*387 (?)		sum	*345 (?)
*3 129 + 3 * 115 = 12 * 61 = 4 * 183**

The last glyph in line Qa5 lines up nicely with Ha6-6 respectively with Pa5-52, but then the following glyph - the first one in line Qa6 - lines up with Ha6-38 respectively with Pa5-79:

	21		9
Ha6-6 (286)	21	Ha6-28 (308)	9	Ha6-38 (318 = 288 + 30)
	19		6
Pa5-52 (287)	19	Pa5-72 (307)	6	Pa5-79 (314 = 288 + 26)
	EGYPTIAN X
Qa5-55 (205 = 286 - 81)	EGYPTIAN X			Qa6-1 (206 = 288 - 82)

31 days appear to be absent in the Q text if compared to the H text, but only 26 days if compared to the P text. However, 31 - 26 = 5 glyphs correspond to the burnt area in line Ha6. These 5 days could evidently have been used in order to illustrate the apex (noon), where the change from above (male) to below (female) occurs:

... When this tremendous task had been accomplished Atea took a third husband, Fa'a-hotu, Make Fruitful. Then occurred a curious event. Whether Atea had wearied of bringing forth offspring we are not told, but certain it is that Atea and her husband Fa'a-hotu exchanged sexes. Then the [male] eyes of Atea glanced down at those of his wife Hotu and they begat Ru. It was this Ru who explored the whole earth and divided it into north, south, east, and west ...


Ha6-15	Ha6-16	Ha6-17	Ha6-18	Ha6-19
BURNT AREA
*Ha6-20	*Ha6-21	*Ha6-22	*Ha6-23	*Ha6-24

*Ha6-25	*Ha6-26	*Ha6-27	*Ha6-28	*Ha6-29

... Nut, whom the Greeks sometimes identified with Rhea, was goddess of the sky, but it was debatable if in historical times she was the object of a genuine cult. She was Geb's twin sister and, it was said, married him secretly and against the will of Ra. Angered, Ra had the couple brutally separated by Shu and afterwards decreed that Nut could not bear a child in any given month of any year. Thoth, Plutarch tells us, happily had pity on her. Playing draughts with the Moon, he won in the course of several games a seventy-second part of the Moon's light with which he composed five new days. As these five intercalated days did not belong to the official Egyptian calendar of three hundred and sixty days, Nut was thus able to give birth successively to five children: Osiris, Haroeris (Horus), Set, Isis and Nepthys ...

BET-EL-GEUZE	α Orionis	0.58	07° 24′ N	88.3	June 17	168 = 13 + 11 weeks
CANOPUS	α Carinae	-0.72	52° 40′ S	95.6	June 24	175 = 25 weeks
5 days
SIRIUS	α Canis Majoris	-1.46	16° 39′ S	101.2	June 30	181 (= 175 + 6)
DRUS	χ Carinae	3.46	52° 59′ S	119.9	July 18	199 (= 168 + 31)
NAOS	ζ Puppis	2.21	39° 52′ S	121.3	July 20	201 (= 175 + 26)

I think the creator of the Q text would have thought a lot about how to use the limited area of his tablet. It might be significant that the beginning of his line a6 was at a glyph number which was 26 + 82 = 108 less than the number of the corresponding glyph in the P text. Because 108 might be explained as for instance the difference between 364 (= 4 * 91) and 472 (= 1½ * 314 + 1 = 4 * 118).

... It is known that in the final battle of the gods, the massed legions on the side of 'order' are the dead warriors, the 'Einherier' who once fell in combat on earth and who have been transferred by the Valkyries to reside with Odin in Valhalla - a theme much rehearsed in heroic poetry. On the last day, they issue forth to battle in martial array. Says Grimnismal (23): 'Five hundred gates and forty more - are in the mighty building of Walhalla - eight hundred 'Einherier' come out of each one gate - on the time they go out on defence against the Wolf.' That makes 432,000 in all, a number of significance from of old. This number must have had a very ancient meaning, for it is also the number of syllables in the Rigveda. But it goes back to the basic figure 10,800, the number of stanzas in the Rigveda (40 syllables to a stanza) which, together with 108, occurs insistently in Indian tradition, 10,800 is also the number which has been given by Heraclitus for the duration of the Aiōn, according to Censorinus (De die natali, 18), whereas Berossos made the Babylonian Great Year to last 432,000 years. Again, 10,800 is the number of bricks of the Indian fire-altar (Agnicayana).³²

³² See J. Filliozat, 'L'Indie et les échanges scientifiques dans l'antiquité', Cahiers d'histoire mondiale 1 (1953), pp. 358f.

'To quibble away such a coincidence', remarks Schröder, 'or to ascribe it to chance, is in my opinion to drive skepticism beyond its limits.'³³

³³ F. R. Schröder, Altgermanischer Kulturprobleme (1929), pp. 80f.

Shall one add Angkor to the list? It has five gates, and to each of them leads a road, bridging over that water ditch which surrounds the whole place. Each of these roads is bordered by a row of huge stone figures, 108 per avenue, 54 on each side, altogether 540 statues of Deva and Asura, and each row carries a huge Naga serpent with nine heads. Only, they do not 'carry' that serpent, they are shown to 'pull' it, which indicates that these 540 statues are churning the Milky Ocean, represented (poorly, indeed) by the water ditch,³⁴ using Mount Mandara as a churning staff, and Vasuki, the prince of the Nagas, as their drilling rope.

³⁴ R. von Heine-Geldern, 'Weltbild und Bauform in Südostasien', in Wiener Beiträge zur Kunst- und Kulturgeschichte 4 (1910), p. 15.

(Just to prevent misunderstanding: Vasuki had been asked before, and had agreeably consented, and so had Vishnu's tortoise avatar, who was going to serve as the fixed base for that 'incomparably mighty churn', and even the Milky Ocean itself had made it clear that it was willing to be churned.)

The 'incomparably mighty churn' of the Sea of Milk, as described in the Mahabharata and Ramayana. The heads of the deities on the right are the Asura, with unmistakable 'Typhonian' characteristics. They stand for the same power as the Titans, the Turanians, and the people of Untamo, is short, the 'family' of the bad uncle, among whom Seth is the oldest representative, pitted against Horus, the avenger of his father Osiris.

The simplified version of the Amritamanthana (or Churning of the Milky Ocean) still shows Mount Mandara used as a pivot or churning stick, resting on the tortoise. And here, also, the head on the right has 'Typhonian' features. The whole of Angkor thus turns out to be a colossal model set up for 'alternative motion' with true Hindu fantasy and incongruousness to counter the idea of a continuous one-way Precession from west to east ...

His fish-hook has (below) lost its point and in the following glyph his 'hair-do' (above) has lost its finish. In between 26 glyphs seem to have been dis-carded.

... 'Who are you talking to?' said the King, coming up to Alice, and looking at the Cat's head with great curiosity. 'It's a friend of mine - a Cheshire-Cat,' said Alice: 'allow me to introduce it.'

'I don't like the look of it at all,' said the King: 'however, it may kiss my hand, if it likes.' 'I'd rather not,' the Cat remarked. 'Don't be impertinent,' said the King, 'and don't look at me like that!' He got behind Alice as he spoke. 'A cat may look at a king,' said Alice. 'I've read that in some book, but I don't remember where.' 'Well, it must be removed,' said the King very decidedly: and he called to the Queen, who was passing at the moment, 'My dear! I wish you would have this cat removed!' The Queen had only one way of settling all difficulties, great or small. 'Off with his head!' she said without even looking around ...

In other words, it is possible that Qa6-1 was 82 days before October 15 (288) and that the Q text was beginning with January 1.

	30		81
Qa5-55 (205)		Qa6-1 (206)		Qa7-34 (288)
June 24 (175)		July 25 (206)		Oct 15 (288)
CANOPUS		AVIOR		BENETNASH
*32 + 82 = 6 19**

THE OAK HULL (BACKBONE)
Canopus	α	365	52° 40′ S	-0.72	95
Drus	χ	270	52° 59′ S	3.46	zero
Avior	ε	325	59º 31' S	1.86	55
*20 48 = 365 + 270 + 325 = 40 * 24**

However, new land should be fished up at Eridu (Canopus) - in the Day of Saint John - which was in June 24 (175 = 350 / 2). In which case the Q text could have its beginning already 30 days before January 1.

366 - 30 = 336 (= 4 * 84 = 7 * 48) = 365 - 29 = 320 + 16 = 12 * 28.

... Anciently the winter months had only 29 days.

The Julian calendar introduced in 46 B.C. by Caesar changed the earlier 355 day long regular calendar by increasing the length of 7 of the months:

Martius	31	31	-
Aprilis	29	30	+1
Maius	31	31	-
Iunius	29	30	+1
Quintilis	31	31	-
Sextilis	29	31	+2
Sum	180	184	+4

Sept	29	30	+1
Oct	31	31	-
Sum	240 = 180 + 60	245 = 184 + 61	+5

Nov	29	115	30	+1
Dec	29		31	+2
Ianuarius	29		31	+2
Februarius	28		28	-
Sum	355 = 240 + 115		365 = 245 + 120	+10

The ordinary year in the previous Roman calendar consisted of 12 months, for a total of 355 days. In addition, a 27-day intercalary month, the Mensis Intercalaris, was sometimes inserted between February and March. This intercalary month was formed by inserting 22 days after the first 23 or 24 days of February; the last five days of February, which counted down toward the start of March, became the last five days of Intercalaris. The net effect was to add 22 or 23 days to the year, forming an intercalary year of 377 or 378 days.

... The evening of 23 June, St. John's Eve, is the eve of celebration before the Feast Day of Saint John the Baptist. The Gospel of Luke (Luke 1:36, 56-57) states that John was born about six months before Jesus; therefore, the feast of John the Baptist was fixed on 24 June, six months before Christmas Eve ...