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The light from the Moon is only a reflection of the light from the Sun. When we measure 10 days per glyph, a number which reflects the Sun, Yc3-8 will reach to 360, also a number referring to the Sun. When we change the measure to 20, the number of nights which the month is counted to have and which could be alluding to the sum of 10 months for the Sun and 10 for the Moon, Yc3-8 will reach to 480, a number which consequently follows the structure of the Moon cycle (by 8 and 60 having the perfect balanced duality). 8 is two 'squares', not only two cycles. 60 is a double-month. 4 * 30 = 120 and it takes 4 * 120 to reach 480. We can say that Moon has two dimensions, that is necessary to measure out squares. In contrast Sun is one-dimensional, he is only waxing and then disappears to do it again on the other side of the equator. To show a double-month we have to put 2 cycles in contact with each other and then 8 emerges as the picture. 20 * 24 is quickly seen to be similarly equal to 10 * 12 taken 4 times. From this perspective the Sun 360 will mean that only 3 squares have been reached. All good things are 3, then follows a dark square. This imbalance can be explained by dividing the cycle in two parts (which also follows from the formula for the circumference of the circle - it takes 2 times π to measure it). Sun has the first part and Moon the second part. Sun is all light, but Moon has both light and darkness. It is her 'fault' that there is a dark square at the end of the full double cycle. She introduces the 'dark cloth' and that means she also introduces life - because life needs the dark cloth. The Polynesians have not only singular and plural, they have dual as a third possibility. Life is dual, waxing and waning, birth and death. In between death and rebirth lies the dark cloth. Yc2-3 and Yc3-3 are both Venus days, and they introduce 120 days each:
Maybe Moon has different garments too (not only Sun). She limits the Sun with Mondays, for instance with henua at Yc3-6, where we have not only 36 but also 3 * 6 = 18. In Yc2-6 (with 26 and 2 * 6 = 12) a Rei is in front, which means the strange left part could refer to the end announced by ua. Moon must then create a new son and that happens on Fridays. Vai with a string as perimeter (Yc2-3 and Yc3-3) are located at the beginning of squares, 4 * 30 days 'long'. From 260 up to and including 480 there are 240 days, balancing those twice 120 ruled by spring Sun. 400 is a 'full square' measured out by the Moon:
It carries 4 times the double Saturn number as its base, 4 * 25 = 100. It is as if Saturn is the garment of the Moon, because he represents both death and rebirth. Saturday is like the waning phase, coming immediately after Venus the waxing phase. Sunday - Thursday comes first in the week. First there are 5 (rima) days for the Sun, then comes 2 for the Moon. This structure explains 420 as 15 * 28:
15 is a Mercury number and halfway to 30, in the middle of the Sun month. It explains why Mercury should be at midsummer. But Mercury is also at the base of 480:
We can finish this exposé with other numbers which are based on multiples of 5:
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