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TRANSLATIONS
In the following page the ordinal numbers of glyphs in line Qb5 have been used in arguing for a location at the end of the year, where winter solstice should be:
If I now will only mechanically change the numbers and let the rest stand as it is, we will instead have (with changes marked in black):
First we should recognize the result of the changes as not totally devastating. 368 is the number of days in Q after the corrections. Counting glyphs from Qa1-1, dividing by 2, and then adding 64, results in day number 368 being located at *Qb5-33--34, in the day before a break in time is illustrated by the glyphs:
5 * 36 = 180, as if to indicate a solar half-year is ending with the new beginning. And already with *Qb5-34 the new year appears, at noon in day 368, because the arm of the past arrives from nothing. 368 can be read as 8 periods connected with 36. Or we can count 36 * 8 = 288 = 2 * 12 squared. Next we have to consider the solstice, which according to the new calculations will not come at day 354 but at day 360:
The sun disc in Qb5-18 (with 18 = half 36, cfr Cb5-36) is quite small, yet the fish tail shows there is life remaining. 296 = 1296 (the number of glyphs in H) - 1000. 592 can be read as 59 * 2 = 118 = 4 * 29.5, possibly indicating the last lunar tertial of the sun year. But 592 can also allude to 192 (being 400 more than 192). Or we can think 5 * 92 = 10 * 46. At day 366 the fish-tail has gone, there is nothing left (and 5-29 alludes to the dark night of the moon). But the pau sign comes only in day 367:
Maybe the pau sign implies the beginning rather than the end. It is difficult to separate the one from the other. The new year maybe is 'announced' (as if with a moe glyph) before the old year has definitely vanished. Given 368 as the measure of the calendar length, and given 365 as the last day of 'living' sun, then there will be a triplet of days beyond, somewhat reminding of the end of the year according to Aa1-13--15:
At last, my suggestion of 64 = 354 - 290 should be changed or deleted. In Q we have 64 = 360 - 296 instead of 354 - 290. It is quite remarkable how I just 'happened' to put in 39 instead of 51 for the number of glyphs in line Qb3. Presumably the mistake was 'caused' by 39 in line Qb4, but mistakes are messages from the subconscious. This one made me aware of 64 = 354 - 290. 51 - 39 = 12 glyphs, equal to 6 days = 360 - 354. I have now revised the page into the following:
I have here (but not in the glyph dictionary of course) redmarked the last part, which is new. In the Venus page the last part must be changed:
Number 584 is no longer *Qb5-22, it comes 12 (= 51 - 39) glyphs earlier, at *Qb5-10:
The pair of toga glyphs indeed indicate the end of a grand cycle, but that argument should be saved until toga arrives in the glyph dictionary. *Qb5-22 has number 590 = the number of 10 lunar double-months. It is also a glyph located at the end of a grand cycle, but presumably a lunar such rather than a cycle of Venus. We have lost an argument at the end of the dictionary page regarding Venus. On the other hand we have gained one, I will change the last part of the page into: The number of days in Q is 368, which can have been meant to allude to 268 for the evening star. Here it dawns on me that 368 is used also somewhat later in the dictionary:
The triplet of days (366-368) which together have 9 glyphs in H, the very last part of the old cycle before Friday is beginning a new one, are structurally very much like in Q:
I ought to mention it: ... In another frame of reference (maybe only for the experts) we should add 64 days counted from Friday, in which case day 368 will turn out to be day 368 + 64 = 432, the last day of the calendar cycle (with Friday as day 1 of the cycle). The number of days in H is equal to the number of days in Q + 64 days. Now it is time for the final page of ariga erua:
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