TRANSLATIONS
Is there in G a pattern with viri on one side and Rei on the other? In K there is such a pattern, one can imagine:
With so few glyphs, however, the pattern may be totally in our imagination. And in P all three viri glyphs are close together and it is therefore improbable to find a Rei glyph among them. G and K are texts which initially were found to be in parallel. On closer inspection doubt has arrived - the resemblances are there but with important differences. The parallels are superficial. And there are many more glyphs in G than in K, arriving after the text of K has ended. We therefore first ought to investigate that part of the text in G which has a parallel in K. All true (without obvious extra signs) Rei in G are on side a:
The play in the viri glyphs between the ordinal number in the glyph line and the ordinal number from the beginning of the text is not present at Ga1-26, because a1 is the first glyph line, but in Ga5-11 number 121 = 11 * 11 may be something more than a coincidence. In Ga7-1 a kind of confirmation is given by 170, where we can neglect zero and find the reverse of 7-1. Ga8-1 is beyond the end of the K text. Disregarding that glyph the pattern is 1 (viri) + 4 (Rei) + 2 (viri) + 2 Rei, 9 in all. The 4th glyph (Ga4-17) has ordinal number 100 and the 8th (Ga7-31) ordinal number 200 - presumably no coincidence - maybe to be read as 4 followed by 5 - we remember 116 respectively 145 as 4 * 29 respectively 5 * 29 (and Ga5-6 has ordinal number 116). If there is some kind of relationship between viri and Rei in that part of the G text which is parallel with K the pattern certainly is different from that we have imagined in K. Rei and viri do mix in G. On side b of G there are no Rei glyphs (not even in combinations with other glyph types). Side b appears to be in the dark. Yet we have seen an inverted viri:
The inversion observed between Pa6-29 and Ga1-18 (notice the ordinal numbers), ought to induce us to examine also other gagana glyphs (because of the similar inversion between Gb1-5 and Ga1-26):
There are 8 gagana glyphs in G and they easily are grouped into 4 pairs:
Possibly Gb6-14 and Gb6-16 refer to Venus, while Gb7-18, Gb8-7 and Ga1-18 may refer to the moon. The eyes in the supposed Venus glyphs are black, not white as in the other glyphs. We should remember the Maya way of picturing Venus: ... Saturn has a glyph which at first glance looks like that of Venus, however, its colours are reversed: white pupils against a black background ... |