TRANSLATIONS
With 182 days between Gb3-23 and Gb2-10, we could - maybe - read a jump in the calendar from day 366 to Gb8-30:
364 + Gb2-9--10 = 366. The jump is 471 - 366 = 105 = 3 * 5 * 7. I recall that I once thought the Maya Indians used their 'shark' (xoc) sign as a point of adjusting their calendar to the celestial processes. ... One of the discoveries which did the most to reopen some of the important questions about the nature of the Maya script was Thompson's (1944) demonstration of the great likelihood that xoc 'count' was represented in the inscriptions by the head of a large fish, the xoc or 'shark' ... It would be nice to let Ga3-23 be exactly right, exactly half a year before Sirius. But the jump, as described above, occurs between Gb5-12 and Gb8-30, not between Ga3-22 and Ga3-23. Or does it? A better alternative (than Ga3-23) could be Ga2-14:
It comes earlier in the calendar and it has half the vertex sign in Gb2-10. 2 * 14 = 28 suggests we should redraw our map into:
471 - 324 = 147 = 3 * 7 * 7, a number we saw just a moment ago:
Furthermore, 147 is 471 with 1 at the beginning instead of at the end. What is 'fact' and what is 'fiction'? If we deduct 43 (the number of glyphs from Gb8-30 up to and including Ga2-13) from 147 we have 104 = 2 * 52 = 4 * 26 = 8 * 13. 472 - 222 = 250, does it mean the moon has 5 * 50 nights and sun 6 * 50 days? It is clear that the solar year is described in several places in the text of G. This fact should not bother us if we allow ourselves to jump when we reach the end of one of those year. Why should we move all around the tablet and imagine a great cycle with 472 days? In the glyph dictionary (at haga rave) I have presented a Mayan calendar:
Zotz (Xoc) is the end of the winter half of the year. The open mouth illustrates the same concept as vaha mea, the red opening. South of the equator the shark with open mouth will illustrate the opening of autumn. With a closed mouth we find the end of summer at Moan. 15 - 4 = 11 (the number for next half year), and it comes 11 * 20 = 220 days later. South of the equator the closed mouth is - it seems - illustrated with a shark seen from the underside and with a closed jaw. The Pukapukans said that the black jaw in the Milky Way was open during winter. I ought to document these thoughts in the glyph dictionary. But I then must consider what has been said earlier, in the excursions at mea ke and haati:
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