TRANSLATIONS
Let us now return to side a by way of the parallel to the hetuu-sequence. On side b we have mapped this sequence like this:
The signs say we have reached the end of sun's journey (day 300, 8 * 36, 10 * 29, pure, and moe). There are 26 glyphs (13 days) here. On side a the relevant glyph line is not the last but number 5, and the order is reversed - there are 14 glyphs preceding the parallel to Ab7-79:
If we regard these 14 glyphs as corresponding to Ab8-1 -- 12, then 400 at Aa5-67 should be compared with 600 at Ab8-20. These numbers are equal to 200 respectively 300 days and suggest that indeed the 14 glyphs on side a correspond to the 12 on side b. There are 670 glyphs on side a, and Aa5-67 divides them into 400 + 270, i.e. into 200 + 135 days. But we have already earlier taken away 90 glyphs (45 days):
So 200 days will be equal to 45 + 155, and then follow 7 more:
155 + 7 = 162 = 9 * 18 days (i.e. half 18 * 18 = 324 glyphs). With day 194 the hetuu-glyph sequence is beginning, but the numbers and moe in Aa5-56 says we should count to day 195:
Counting further on we will reach Aa5-81 (glyph number 414 and day 207) after 12 more days. 195 + 12 = 207. Possibly we should continue one day more (although the parallel with side b has finished), because then follows glyph line a6:
208 = 8 * 26:
148 + 12 = 160 possibly suggests that day 46, day 195 and day 208 are 'joints'. 296 + 24 = 320. We have not yet included Aa6-66. We first have to count 208 + 32 = 240:
254 glyphs beyond Aa5-83 can be grouped into 64 + 190, and now we have the picture (a very simplifed one). |