TRANSLATIONS

TRANSLATIONS

I count those glyphs in GD22 (ragi) (in Tahua) which belong to the variant with visible 'interior' and find 36 such:

The total number of ragi glyphs in Tahua (as I have tried to identify them) is, remarkably, 6 * 13 = 78 = 3 * 26. And 36 + 42 = 78.

The statistics for each side:

Tahua	GD22 with inside	GD22 without inside	total GD22
side a	17	24	41
side b	19	18	37
sum	36	42	78

I guess that GD22 with a vertical middle line (GD22 'with inside') has a solar character, while the rest of GD22 belong to the 'lunar' domain.

Penetrating one step further, we can concentrate on the 'pure' glyphs, and then we find that all these are located on side b:

	short right 'horn', leaning somewhat, long right 'vertical' line, 'closed roof' at left
Ab1-20
					'standard' type
Ab1-27	Ab1-36	Ab1-41	Ab1-63	Ab1-78	'standard' type
		long 'horns', long right 'vertical' line
Ab2-2	Ab2-19	long 'horns', long right 'vertical' line
			various marks
Ab7-11	Ab8-23	Ab8-36	various marks

This type of glyph may have influenced me earlier, when I suggested the similarity with the ancient Egyptian per-nu:

'... There are two places in Wilkinson where Wadjet is mentioned, the first is in the description of iaret and the second in the description of per-nu:

... A pre-dynastic chapel, called Per-nu or Per-neser ('The House of the Flames') was established in the city of Buto in the Nile delta, the site of the snake goddess Wadjet ... In the third 'hour' in the underworld, as described in the Book of the Gates, there are twelve such chapels with open doors to show the gods who live in them. A gigantic serpent lies along this row of chapels to emphasize the meaning of these 'sacred gods in the underworld' ...

The major parts in the construction of Per-nu is seen in the hieroglyph: a triple vertical section at bottom and above we find one horizontal beam (lintel) across, topped by a 'hemispherical' roof. The bottom vertical section has an open space in the middle. The vertical side lines of Per-nu are extended to include the roof. The hieroglyph per-nu may be compared with GD22 (the top part) and GD41 (bottom part):

The night (GD22) with sky roof and moon sickle is similar to the roof section with extended side lines in per-nu. The two vertical beams in GD41 are similar to the two vertical beams in per-nu ...'

The 'House of the Flames' is located at the border between sea and land. Does that mean when sun is close to the horizon in the east? Does it mean when sun is far in the north? Or does it mean that sun is at equinox? Equinoxes?

Upper Egypt should be compared with the 'midsummer hill', and then Lower Egypt should be the other, 'lower', 'watery', 'winter', domain. The border between 'summer' and 'winter' is defined by the equinoxes.

GD22 drawn withouth an inside 'vertical' line might be a picture of how the 'house of the sun' is seen in the dark - only the silhouette against the moon-lit sky is visible, the rest of the 'house' cannot be seen because it is so dark.

Drawn with an inside 'vertical beam' GD22 may mean 'twilight time' - it is possible to discern the interior of the 'house'.

There is a little gap at left (below the 'roof jutting out') in most of these glyphs, presumably meaning - just as when we find this sign in hau tea (GD41) - that light is coming in and illuminating the inside the 'house'. There are never such gaps at right, neither in GD22 nor in GD41 (according to Tahua) - sun and other stars (the Pleiades?) rise in the east.