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Next two pages (and at last we are back again on the main road after having spent an immense amount of time and effort trying to 'prove' that the reversed vaha kai in *Yc1-3 means birth):

 

By means of two manu kake glyphs it is possible to discern a structure in calendar I:

18 15 3
Ya3-5 Ya3-6 Ya3-7 Yb3-1 Yb3-2 Yb3-3
36 6
42

The low neck of the bird type manu kake (in Yb3-1) probably signifies midwinter. On the other side of the reversed vaha kai is a glyph which I have classified as pito (navel, center, umbilical cord). This evidence supports the idea of a reversed vaha kai referring to birth (the opposite of death). Considering the fact that 42 is 24 reversed, we can guess calendar I is describing how Sun is travelling in the Underworld night from west to east.

And possibly we should think of the end of the calendar I text as the beginning of its cycle. 6 glyphs at the end could mean (or allude to) how 63 days should be added from Rogo at winter solstice to the front side (as we have seen in e.g. the G text). If reversed vaha kai means 'birth', then Yb3-1--6 should be the beginning of the cycle:

Yb3-1 Yb3-2 Yb3-3 Yb3-4 Yb3-5 Yb3-6
Ya1-1 Ya1-2 Ya1-3 Ya1-4 Ya1-5 Ya1-6
Ya2-1 Ya2-2 Ya2-3 Ya2-4 Ya2-5 Ya2-6

If we count each glyph as 10 days, then Ya2-6 will be at day 180 or 'midsummer' (whatever that means down in the Underworld). Next follows a group of 12 glyphs:

Ya2-7 Ya2-8
Ya3-1 Ya3-2 Ya3-3 Ya3-4 Ya3-5
Ya3-6 Ya3-7 Yb1-1 Yb1-2 Yb1-3

If we continue with 10 days per glyph, Ya2-8 (an upside down haga rave) will be at 200 and signify how Sun now is turning around from rising into declining. Twice 5 glyphs follow, and at Yb1-3 the number will be 300. 'High summer' is finished. Day 240 will be at Ya3-4.

Beyond comes 12 glyphs which presumably describe 'the Flood' (5 glyphs which have been 'submerged' so that we cannot see more than the top of them) and how a new cycle is being generated. A new little 'fish' is in front in Yb2-2, which will be day 360 if we count with 10 days per glyph:

 
Yb1-4 Yb1-5 Yb1-6 Yb1-7
Yb2-1 Yb2-2 (360) Yb2-3 Yb2-4
Yb2-5 Yb2-6 Yb2-7 Yb2-8 (420)

Devaluating the number of days per glyph from 10 to 5 from Yb1-4 will result in 360 at Yb2-8 and we should be aware of the possibility that different readings could be intended.

 

 

Calendar II has 24 glyphs, a number which could indicate how Sun now has emerged into view again. If we assign 20 days per glyph, Yc1-10 will be at day 200:

Yc1-1 Yc1-2 Yc1-3
Yc1-4 Yc1-5 (100) Yc1-6 Yc1-7
Yc1-8 Yc1-9 Yc1-10 (200)

Counting on with 20 glyphs per day will lead to 480 at the end of calendar II.

Yc2-1 Yc2-2 (240)
Yc2-3 Yc2-4 Yc2-5 (300) Yc2-6 Yc3-1 Yc3-2 (360)
Yc3-3 Yc3-4 Yc3-5 Yc3-6 Yc3-7 Yc3-8 (480)

Tagata at Yc3-2 will be given day 360 and we cannot see his feet. Koti at Yc3-4 will be at 400 and henua at Yc3-6 will be at 420.

20 days per glyph seems to be reasonable and reversed vaha kai will then be at day 60, as if to suggest that the front side of the year is being reborn here.

 

A sense of order dictates the numbers and the structures. 24 is one of the basic numbers:

"To come back to the key words of ancient cosmology: if the words 'flat earth' do not correspond in any way to the fancies of the flat-earth fanatics who still infest the fringes of our society and who in the guise of a few preacher-friars made life miserable for Columbus, so the name of 'true earth' (or of 'the inhabited world') did not in any way denote our physical geoid for the archaics. It applies to the band of the zodiac, two dozen degrees right and left of the ecliptice, to the tracks of the 'true inhabitants' of this world, namely, the planets." (Hamlet's Mill)

42 = 21 + 21 according to calendar I, and we can imagine 21 steps for Sun descending in the Underworld followed by another 21 steps going up again.

A single measure 24 is stated by calendar II, referring to how Sun then emerges into the world of living again and moves 12 steps up followed by 12 steps down. Or maybe 12 steps up and then a sudden disappearance down to the other pole, there to once again move upwards in 24 (or rather 12) steps.

In our view Sun will be born and then gradually advance twice 12 = 24 steps up to midsummer. He should never decline, always move upwards. That is his character. Therefore he must disappear from our view at the end of high summer. From the tropic of Cancer there are 24 'steps' to the tropic of Capricorn.

If Moon then takes over she must move 24 descending steps if she will be able to give birth to a new Sun baby at the correct point after half a year:

path of Sun new year high summer 240 days
path of Moon high summer new year 240 days
cycle 480 days

But Moon cannot advance more than 120 days in one direction, then comes her 2nd phase moving in the other direction:

Sun ascending 240 days
Moon ascending 120 days
regular solar year 360 days

Her waning phase could correspond to the blanket, the black cloth. These 120 days can be added to twice 210 for the Sun down in the Underworld. 120 + 210 + 210 = 540 = 20 * 27 (where 27 = 3 * 3 * 3).

210 is 120 reversed, and the strange number 210 is thereby explained. 210 = 7 * 30, not 5 * 30 = 150. The number of daylight is 5, the number of nightlighs is 7. 10 days + 14 nights = 24.

Moon ascending 120 330
Moon descending 210

It takes 33 weeks to reach the back side of the G text, 7 * 33 = 231 = 210 + 120.

42 + 24 = 66 is another expression for the whole cycle of the Sun. 66 is the Sun equivalent of the Moon 120 + 210 = 330, because twice 330 = 660 = 11 * 30 or the measure for a whole cycle which includes the newborn next one ('one more').

18 (daylight), according to calendar III, fits well together with 42 (nightlights): 18 + 42 = 60.

If it is combined with 24 (also daylight) it becomes equal to 42, balancing the nightlights of calendar I.

42 + 24 + 18 = 84 = 7 * 12. Time is measured by the Moon.

Twice 21 + twice 24 = 42 + 48 = 90. If we multiply with 4 to reach 360, it means 4 * 42 + 4 * 48 = 168 + 192.

18 * 4 = 72, and 168 + 72 = 240.

According to Wikipedia the mythical Mount Meru is said to be 84,000 Yojanas high. Intriguingly 84 is the sum of 42 + 24 + 18.