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TRANSLATIONS
In the Mamari moon calendar hua (GD51) appears slightly before full moon and in the day calendars a hua-like glyph type (GD28) appear slightly before midnight.
Logic then forces us to reconsider the structure of the 'moon-influence' on the day calendars: The day calendars of H, P and Q start with the beginning of night and the moon calendar of C starts with the appearance of the light from the new moon. Next point of correspondence (as we have unveiled) is the time of hua, in the day calendars shortly before the middle of the night and in the moon calendar shortly before the middle of the month. Therefore we should be able to 'map' the structure of the month (according to C) onto the night in the day calendars. Both the night and the month are ruled by the moon, whereas the time of daylight and the year are ruled by the sun. There is thus a balance of powers, which also is apparent in the exchange of light between sun and moon. Waxing moon is receiving it from the dying sun and waning moon is feeding the growing sun. With a high degree of confidence we may state that there is a balance of power between these two types of glyphs (GD41 respectively GD22):
In the domain of the sun (left glyph) we see at right (east) the sun appearing at the horizon and he will during a.m. move up to reach his peak at noon (middle vertical line), then to descend during p.m. to disappear at the horizon in the west (left vertical line). In the domain of the moon (right glyph) we see the same type of sky roof (top), though more rounded (female characteristic). Whereas the sun in GD41 appears on the outside (male characteristic) of the sky roof, the moon appears on the inside. GD22 is designed so that the moon is made visible by letting the two 'horns' stick out and leave to the imagination the middle part. I suggest that the moon sickle is not behind the sky roof but that the sky roof is like a tent with moon sickle inside. In GD41 the rays of the sun are straight, in GD22 the forms are not so distinct, which may be read as a description of how our eyes during night see objects less clearly. Our imaginations easily run wild during darkness, and fear forces us inside. By implication (both from inside and from darkness) GD22 ought to give us female marks, and that we discover in the non-straight lines. The sky roof in GD22 is shaped like the top of a tree (the world tree). The roof is supported by a tree trunk and we remember the Japanese 'Tale of the Bamboo Cutter' (Taketori Monogatari) which tells of a princess from the Moon emerging from a shining bamboo section. At the base of GD22 we find a sign of 2 in the form of an inverted Y, in GD41 we find a sign of 3 (straight vertical lines). Also there are 2 'horns' in GD22, but (normally) only 1 sun circle in GD41. From this we can determine that 2 is a 'female' number and infer that both 1 and 3 are 'male' numbers. The pattern presumably then continues with odd numbers being male and female being even. 7 (week) should belong to the sun and 28 (sunlit moon nights in a month) to the moon. As for the week we remember that sun (in Sunday) seems to be generating the period from his thumb (Ea4-35):
Why the thumb? Because the thumb represents the male leader. We can see his three wives (as fingers) at left and the single thumb at right. I also suggest that the 'thumb' is seen at right bottom in GD23:
We meat this cock crying out (as if in triumph) in the 2nd period of the month (Ca6-28):
His strange beak probably signifies the moon and presumably it is not until the 2nd period that the new moon at last becomes visible. The 2 night glyphs in the first period have a different appearance than the other 28. Is there any sign of his appearance during the early night?
Possibly in Ha5-40 we may see the bottom part of his beak, but the answer must be no. We should, though, continue with using the C calendar as a guide for our interpretaions. Even Fischer states that verybody agree on this calendar being a calendar for the month. I regard it as an axiom, which we can safely rely on in the same way as we safely can rely on the four calendars of the 'day' and the Keiti weekly calendar (containing Ea4-35 - see above). Let us therefore have a look at the first parts of the periods:
There are 8 periods and therefore no single middle period, but two: the 4th and 5th periods. As if to draw attention to these we find in Ca7-17 and Ca7-25 marked initial glyphs:
An eye in Ca7-17 and a big bird head (with beak for once closed) in Ca7-25 tells us something is happening. We can also see that these two are the last of the really fat ones. For in the 6th - 8th periods the initial birds are not quite so fat:
Therefore we should interpret these initial birds as symbols of the moon (waning after full moon). But possibly we have an exception in the cock at the beginning of the 5th period (when the waning not yet has started?). His head reminds us of GD11:
I guess that with the 5th period a new 'day' is being born (although we are looking at a moon calendar). Even the sleeping sun bird seems to have noticed:
He is turning around to have a look. In the 6th period he has gone to sleep again, though no longer having the moon like a burden on his back:
The moon is flying high like a canoe and we may come to think about the corresponding location in the night, where we have a double-canoe:
This table has the two main persons (moon and sun) in the bottom row as they appear in the calendar of the month. Maybe sun and moon have changed places in the 5th period? The right bird looks left and has an abnormal head for a sun bird. We notice a similar aberration in the corresponding phase of the night, where there are 2 'arms' (otherwise pointing to the first half of the night) and the right one is closed (not open as in the earlier periods). That closed arm looks like a part of henua. From then on there is only one 'arm'. In the period where the canoe appears it is an open arm (perhaps pointing at the vessel - a female), thereafter a closed 'arm'. The structure may be inversed in the night (compared to the month): With the exception of the new day phase sun appears before moon. That would explain why there are 2 canoes visible and why we have extra boughs at bottom right in the last two periods of the night. 2 means 'female'. The 'mapping' of the 2nd half of the month onto the 2nd half of the night seems rewarding. We therefore go on with the 1st halves:
In the moon calendar we also here have moon at left and sun at right. That means we should expect sun first and moon second in the 1st half of the night. And indeed we may see a sign of this in the fact that of the 2 'arms' the first one (at left) is closed and the one following (at right) is open. Curiously 'open' denotes 'female' whereas 'closed' denotes 'male', while 'female' also means 'inside' and 'male' outside. Being 'inside' does not mean do be closed in, on the contrary, the door should always be open. Being 'outside' means being closed, to be hard and in harnesk against enemies. |
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