Now when the overall structure of the H text has been revealed, we can take up our investigation of honui glyphs. These are the ones we have decided to put into focus: Ha1-7 (7) Ha5-22 (238) Ha10-9 (511) Hb7-38 (994) Hb12-12 (1257) Hb12-24 (1269) The first two measure out 76 days (we now know): 226 Ha1-7 (7) Ha5-22 (234) 228 / 3 = 76 days 228 = 12 * 19 = 8 * 28.5 indicates the 'spring half' of the year. Together with 104 days at the end of side b we have 76 + 104 = 180 days, and if we incorporate also the glyphs Ha1-1--6, we will reach 182 days: Ha1-1 Ha1-2 Ha1-3 Ha1-4 Ha1-5 Ha1-6 1 2 Ha1-7 Ha1-8 Ha1-9 3 Ha5-22 is located at the beginning of the 2nd cycle of the sun, in the intercalated day number 2: Ha5-19 Ha5-20 (236) Ha5-21 Ha5-22 Ha5-23 Ha5-24 (240) The 'egg' inside honui in Ha5-22 is a hole filled with fluid (like all eggs are). The hot spring sun has left and beyond Ha5-24 where the 'egg' is uplifted, as if to indicate the arrival of a new season, we can once again begin to count 180 days. Both Ha1-7 and Ha5-22 are located at the very beginning, of 'spring' respectively 'fall'.

If the 'father' (spring sun) has left, who then is depicted in Ha5-22--23? I would say it is the 'mother'. She is 'pregnant' with the sun of the 2nd half of the cycle.

But this is just 'pictures' to make people understand. Nothing can be understood without pictures. Such are possible to interpret in so many ways that everybody will get something.

Once that has happened - the incorporated image (internal picture) of the external picture has been assimilated (only what is comparable with earlier internal stuff can be assimilated, 'swallowed', added to the 'pile' constituting the 'map') - there will be growth of 'knowledge'. I.e., the newly incorporated part will start to accumulate other parts which are good fits. Such other parts are first of all what already was there in the 'pile', but secondly also such good fits which are found in the ongoing stream of inputs. Accumulation of 'knowledge' comes through assimilation. What fits is saved for future use, the rest is ignored.

So, in the background - behind the glyphs (pictures) - there is a structure not easy to understand. I disagree with Frazer (as he presents 'reality' in his The Golden Bough) - the 'primitive' peoples are not inferior to the citybased modern ones. On the contrary, sifting through the 'pile' in order to create order takes time and undisturbed conscious efforts. Electricity has destroyed the conditions necessary for such understanding - no more is darkness and silence present in enough quantity and quality. Understanding is effectively blocked by the electric light (and all what follows from it).

We moderns will never understand the structure (singular) behind the primitive pictures, never see their 'cosmos'. At best we can perceive a few details which are similar enough to what we 'know', e.g. the number of days in a year or the relation between the circumference and diameter of a circle. Pieces of the whole can therefore be drawn up to the surface for us to see while the rest is hidden below. Another piece can be drawn up, but then we are prone to loose our grip on the one we just had in sight.

Moreover, all the associations which make the whole 'cosmos' so beautiful to behold for the primitive mind are even harder to grasp. We can only 'process' one such at a time, and it takes the better part of a lifetime to accumulate the total 'mother of pearl' (rei).