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TRANSLATIONS
If we allow each new month to have separate weeks, then it is possible to arrange Venus as both Gb6-26 and Gb7-3:
It is also possible to see how people could have difficulties distinguishing between Jupiter and Saturn. 6 * 28 = 168 = 368 - 200 are days for the Sun. But Gb6-18 will by the number rule be Saturn and Gb6-17 be Venus. The number rule maybe breaks down at cardinal points too:
Counting from Gb6-18 (which is equivalent to Gb6-26 in position among the 8 glyphs), will increase the ordinal number for gagana at Ga1-18 from 64 + 19 = 83 to 72 + 19 = 91. Perhaps we should say that gagana is related to Gb6-18. Suddenly Gb6-18 as Saturn no longer seems to be so bad. But to make it fit we must count Gb8-30 only once:
The days of the week I have here determined only from their ordinal numbers in the lines:
Saturn takes on his role of being the central pillar.
I vaguely feel there is a possibility of several kinds of week. 260 could be the result of throwing Saturn overboard, down into the sea where he belongs. There will then be 6 days of light in the week. (And once there may have been only 5, influenced by the pentagram of Venus in the night sky.) With 6 days instead of 7 we can easily transform the table above into:
With Venus at day 1 and the last day of sun as day 26 the role of Jupiter becomes evident - he now has taken over the role of being last from Saturn. No wonder they had difficulty to see the difference between Jupiter and Saturn. The structure with Friday at the beginning of time and Jupiter at the end we have identified via H.
Venus at Gb8-7 seems OK, procreation is on its way and someone is diving down to become invisible. With a 7-day week the glyph would be Mars, which I cannot see any sign of in the glyph. Sun at Gb2-14 has 3 feathers at left and 3 at right, as it should be. With a 7-day week the glyph would be Mars, which does not fit quite as well - Mars should initiate spring and therefore have 7 feathers instead of 6. But Ga1-11 suddenly has become Mercury, and he does not deserve any prominent role. With a 7-day week Ga1-11 would be Saturn which then connects the glyph with Saturn in Ga1-18. When Maui used the tresses of his sister to slow sun down, it could be a description of transforming a short week to a longer one. If time was counted by weeks, then sun must stay longer in order to reach to his limit. Maybe Maui prolonged only spring by increasing the number of days in a week from 6 to 7? That would explain why 7 decreases to 6 beyond the 'midpoint' according to the number of glyphs in the henua season of G. We cannot pursue this exercise longer at this point. What is important is the idea that 7 days in a week seems to fit with Saturn at gagana. How many days there are in a week and how many there are in a month may be debated forever. But nobody will deny there is a twofold division of the year. One part is spring when sun is vitally present and rising, the other part is the rest. In my view, the ancient Egyptians had Set as a name for the event of sun setting, 'dying in blood' at the horizon in the west. The myth about Tuna and Maui competing for Hina has Maui impersonating spring and Tuna as the dark creature. Maui was clever enough (like Odysseus) to avoid dying by the forces of Tuna (Polyphemos), and the solution evidently incorporated to quickly leave the stage, burrowing down through the earth (Tuna) and arrive at the pole in the north to be reborn there again. This explains in a much better way the problem which is debated in The Golden Bough. Yet Sir Frazer was right in a way. It is necessary to cut down the tree of spring at its best, before it becomes rotten (like when Maui vanished from the heap of leaves and rotten wood). |
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