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TRANSLATIONS
An overall map of H can now be created, the basis of which is 2 * 29 + 4 * 29.5 + 8 * 32 = 58 + 118 + 256 = 432. The beginning is 2 months in utter darkness, then follows 4 months when moon is shining, and finally sun delivers 8 'multiplying months. The text does not begin until moon is giving light, 100 days from winter solstice. Or should we not rather say that the calendar is beginning 42 nights beyond winter solstice, and that we ought to count from there? 100 - 42 = 58 = 2 * 29 nights are in complete darkness in the beginning. The moon appears in night number 59. Presumably that is the way we should think. Notably there are 4 dark glyphs beyond the last glyph in Saturday and before mago indicates where the calendar is beginning:
Rei at Hb9-56 indicates a new season, presumably of the sun, and it is located 7 glyphs before mago. Pu in Hb9-55 should then be the final glyph of the preceding season. In Hb9-57 a variant of the midnight henua marks that the new season has begun. According to solar measure glyph number 1115 (Hb9-55) is the last one. 1115 = 5 * 23 and 9 * 55 = 495 = 5 * 99. Expressed in days we can say that sun is beginning his calendar 2⅓ days before the moon. 58 + 2⅓ = 60⅓. Let us then jump to Ha1-1 and the appearance of moon:
The end of the 'season of straw' seems to be initiated by mago at Ha1-26. It apparently is related to mago at the very beginning of the calendar:
1296 + 26 = 1322 and 1322 - 1123 = 199, which means that they together measure out 200 glyphs:
Number 1-26 suggests the final station of the sun king, and it becomes even better if we add the 24 preceding glyph lines, 25 * 26 = 13 * 50. It is a fat mago, the waning sun king. 432 - 200 = 232 = 8 * 29. But then we have mixed days and glyphs. 1296 - 200 = 1096 glyphs = 365⅓ days:
That is, the two mago glyphs mark the beginning and end of that part of the calendar where sun is absent:
If we count the solar year from Ha1-27 and approximate its length to 365⅓ days (because instead of a more correct 365¼ the creator of the H text may have been forced by the rule of 3 glyphs per day to use ⅓ instead of ¼), then it seems rather obvious that Ha1-27 refers to that ⅓. We can then count with whole days from Ha1-28:
Adjusting the day numbers accordingly, we will at the end of the year have:
This pattern is certainly meant to be seen. In Hb9-57 the midnight henua takes the position which 6 glyphs earlier is allotted to the first glyph in Saturday. In day 364 sun is vanishing, which motivates manu rere in the center. In day 360 the same type of manu rere is connected with the final of 12 * 30 = 360 days:
I think we had better to stop here. |
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