TRANSLATIONS
The link 'more numerical clues relating to these two hahe glyphs' leads first to these two pages:
4 glyphs for 'birth' (Yb3-1--4) and 4 glyphs for 'death' (Ya1-1--4) could be regarded as the 'dog watches'. And Venus comes before Saturn:
With Rei in Ya1-5 at the beginning of the 'new year' it is reasonable to regard Yb3-5--6 as the end of the 'old year':
Maybe they depict the gods of wood respectively stone which were thrown into the water. The pestles and the 3 hearth stones could be in Ya1-1. What are pestles if not fire generators (flame creators)? The old year could be also at left in Ya1-2, because he seems to have been eating feebly and his toes has changed into fins. Night had arrived (ragi at right). |