TRANSLATIONS

TRANSLATIONS

In the Mamari moon calendar the first half (waxing) has glyphs with ika signs oriented the normal way (head up), while in the second half (waning) the ika signs are upside down:

waxing	1
	1	Ca6-17	Ca6-18	Ca6-19	Ca6-20	Ca6-21
	2
	2	Ca6-25	Ca6-26	Ca6-27	Ca6-28	Ca7-1
	3
	3	Ca7-8	Ca7-9	Ca7-10	Ca7-11	Ca7-12
	4
	4	Ca7-17	Ca7-18	Ca7-19		Ca7-20
waning	5
	5	Ca7-25	Ca7-26	Ca7-27	Ca7-28	Ca7-29
	6
	6	Ca8-4	Ca8-5	Ca8-6		Ca8-7
	7
	7	Ca8-11	Ca8-12	Ca8-13	Ca8-14	Ca8-15
	8
	8	Ca8-22	Ca8-23	Ca8-24	Ca8-25	Ca8-26

The tails of the reversed ika are very clearly indicating by their moon crescent shapes that these fishes 'personify' the moon. They are standardized compared with how the rising fishes are drawn - for the waxing phase there is an urge to tell more.

Once again, the waxing phase is most important - the agricultural revolution made it so. It is the opposite of the unstable, dangerous, dark void of the deep sea. It was a wonder indeed how spring sun (Marduk) managed to cut her in half. As a punishment also he had to be cut at midsummer. The consequence is a reflected punishment on Moon herself - beyond full moon Sun no longer looks at her as before, and she grows old.

Also sun can be symbolized by a rising or sinking 'fish'. Here is a short synopsis of the yearly cycle of the sun, preceding the main part of the calendar:


Ga2-13	Ga2-14	Ga2-15	Ga2-16	Ga2-17

The mago glyph in Ga2-14 is connected to the preceding ika glyph - it explains that the time of the rising 'fish' is spring. In the main part of the calendar mago then reappears (in the 6th period), while the figure in Ga2-15 reappers at a later stage:

6
6	Ga3-22	Ga3-23	Ga3-24
24
24	Ga6-12	Ga6-13	Ga6-14	Ga6-15	Ga6-16

Here I implicitly suggest two phases for the sun, determined by 'period' number 6 ('birth') and 'period' number 24 ('death').

3 * 24 (in Ga3-24) = 72 = 360 / 5, and 6 * 16 (in Ga6-16) = 96 (not 6 * 15 = 90). The 'birth' is sun-oriented (also 5 'feathers' in maro), the 'death' moon-oriented (4 'feathers' in maro). Yet, Ga6-15 is the glyph at the 'end'. Therefore 3 * 23 (in Ga3-23) = 69 should be moon-oriented. There is a kind of balance both in the 'birth' and the 'death' of sun.

Ga2-15 is exactly 4 glyph lines before Ga6-15. Shouldn't, then, the bird in Ga6-14 be the 'reincarnation' of mago in Ga2-14?

The 24th and 25th 'periods' show signs of a seasonal change:

				-
Ga6-12	Ga6-13	Ga6-14	Ga6-15	-	Ga6-16

Kb3-1	Kb3-2	Kb3-3	Kb3-4	Kb3-5	Kb3-6

Ga6-17	Ga6-18

Kb3-7	Kb3-8

In Kb3-8 this is very clearly announced. The 25th period should be at the end of the 'fire' and the 6th period must be at its beginning:

5th period	6th period	16	24th period	25th period
	18

We can observe it by the reversal from henua positioned 'forward' in Ka4-15, and then changed into reversal in Kb3-8 (together with the appearance of a 2nd henua):

6th period
	Ga3-22	Ga3-23	Ga3-24

	Ka4-13	Ka4-14	Ka4-15

Shouldn't I have mentioned that Ga6-13 is the last 'pushing up sky' staff? Yes, I should. Therefore I will now add:

Ga6-13 is the last of the 10 henua 'staffs' pushing the sky roof up. The first of them comes in Ga4-3, at the beginning of summer. The task of 'raising the roof' is finished in the 24th period and then another season ('high summer') follows.

'High summer' is initiated with the 25th period, 5 * 5 = 25.