206. We can guess that side a (depicting war) could refer to 110 days and side b (peace) to 45 days. This could then imply a kind of reflection of 365 - 155 = 210 nights = 420 / 2. ... And then the face of the earth was dried out by the sun. The sun was like a person when he revealed himself. His face was hot, so he dried out the face of the earth. Before the sun came up it was soggy, and the face of the earth was muddy before the sun came up. And when the sun had risen just a short distance he was like a person, and his heat was unbearable. Since he revealed himself only when he was born, it is only his reflection that now remains. As they put it in the ancient text, 'The visible sun is not the real one ... '
 ... The four bereaved and searching divinities, the two mothers and their two sons, were joined by a fifth, the moon-god Thoth (who appears sometimes in the form of an ibis-headed scribe, at other times in the form of a baboon), and together they found all of Osiris save his genital member, which had been swallowed by a fish. They tightly swathed the broken body in linen bandages, and when they performed over it the rites that thereafter were to be continued in Egypt in the ceremonial burial of kings, Isis fanned the corpse with her wings and Osiris revived, to become the ruler of the dead. He now sits majestically in the underworld, in the Hall of the Two Truths, assisted by forty-two assessors, one from each of the principal districts of Egypt; and there he judges the souls of the dead. These confess before him, and when their hearts have been weighed in a balance against a feather, receive, according to their lives, the reward of virtue and the punishment of sin ... The strange object from Ur has been given a name, viz. the Standard of Ur: "The artifact was found in one of the largest royal tombs in the Royal Cemetary at Ur, tomb PG 779, associated with Ur-Pabilsag, a king who died around 2550 BC. Sir Leonard Wolley's excavations in Mesopotamia in 1927-28 uncovered the artifact in the corner of a chamber, lying close to the shoulder of a man who may have held it on a pole. For this reason, Wolley interpreted it as a standard, giving the object its popular name ..." (Wikipedia) The king's name Pabilsag we can remember from the Babylonian zodiac:
... Cargo-Boat (Pisces Australis): The mythic function of the Cargo-Boat was probably to transport the souls of new-born children from the ancestral realms towards the realms of living. The 'Cargo' refers to various objects carried in the boat that symbolize the sex of the child - boys are represented by throwing sticks and axes, girls by spindles, hair-clasps and needles. Pabilsag (Sagittarius): Pabilsag is the direct forerunner to the centaur-archer that we know today as Sagittarius. His name can be translated as the 'Chief Ancestor' or 'Forefather', and he can be best compared to the Wild Hunter of western folklore who guides the souls of the dead to the afterlife over the course of the winter months. Goatfish (Capricorn): The Goatfish rises after the winter solstice, when it announces the welcome return of the sun. I believe that the Goatfish is one of the relatively new constellation figures and can be best understood in terms of two older constellations - the Stag which announces the returning sun, and the Fish which guides the sun through the darkness of winter ... Below is the reconstruction of one of the side panels, like a precursor of the letter A and located to the right of (i.e. in a way following) side a:
I imagine this side panel represented the season before the morning light would open up, forcing apart, the pair of summer seasons, viz. that of the true sun and that of his smoking mirror. The Night was ruling because strings were still holding Father Sky and Mother Earth in close embrace. ... In South America the rainbow has a double meaning. On the one hand, as elsewhere, it announces the end of rain; on the other hand, it is considered to be responsible for diseases and various natural disasters. In its first capacity the rainbow effects a disjunction between the sky and the earth which previously were joined through the medium of rain. In the second capacity it replaces the normal beneficient conjunction by an abnormal, maleficient one - the one it brings about itself between sky and earth by taking the place of water ... ... Sky (rangi) and Earth (papa) lay in primal embrace, and in the cramped, dark space between them procreated and gave birth to the gods such as Tane, Rongo and Tu. Just as children fought sleep in the stifling darkness of a hare paenga, the gods grew restless between their parents and longed for light and air. The herculean achievement of forcing Sky to separate from Earth was variously performed by Tane in New Zealand and the Society Islands, by Tonofiti in the Marquesas and by Ru (Tu) in Cook Islands. After the sky was raised high above the earth, props or poles were erected between them and light entered, dispelling the darkness and bringing renewed life. One detail which is iconographically of interest is whether the god responsible for separating Earth and Sky did so by raising the Sky with his upraised arms and hands, as in Tahiti and elsewhere, or with his feet as in New Zealand ... Maybe Pabilsag was illustrated at top center in the side panel, between a pair of flowers.
And at the bottom of this side panel there was a little door, below the Goat.
It should also be mentioned that some have suggested the tall figure at top center on the war side was representing the Standard in use:
At left is a photo and at right is the reconstruction by Sir Wolley. I can clearly see the blade of a reversed knife (ihe tau)
on top of a pole, which resembles a peculiar idea in ancient Egypt (where everything was upside down), viz. schemset:
... In ancient Egypt the sungod was accompanied during his 'night' journey by a strange figure, here sitting in front of him. According to Wilkinson this figure (schemset) symbolized the king's ancestors from a far away time, his 'follower'. This notion reminds me about the way the Polynesians always in their minds keep their ancestors close in front of them. The picture shows a schemset with the sign of a knife (top right). The knife (says Wilkinson) is fastened with a rope to a staff and the leg (bottom right) is the handle of the knife (a leg as a kind of wordplay on 'follower') ... Here we should recall that the Arabs' name for the star α Tauri was the Follower (Al-debaran). 5 days earlier was the Follower in form of Al Dabarān.
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