| We cannot here pursue this line of discussion any longer, there
are immense amounts of potential data incised on Pachamama. And the
main points needed for the calendar of the year in Small Santiago
Tablet have been covered, I hope. Notice, though, that in the top-most row of double-suns in the skirt there are 30 signs. If there are 30 nights (at least half of the times) in the circuit of the Moon, then it seems right to think that there are 30 periods in the circuit of the Sun (at least half of the times). Why should there be 12 periods in the year? Answer: because my watch has 12 on it. But in the same way as 12 * 30 = 360 = the Egyptian Sacred Year, it would not be stupid to think that 354 should be divided into 30. Then we get 11.8 days (which resembles the 11 800 nights in the tresses of Pachamama and the 1 180 days in the old Indian year). I guess they solved this problem (not reaching a whole number) by dispersing the sun-signs on the skirt and at the same time to illustrate vertically how the amount of daylight varies over the year as shown by the number of double-sun signs, a graphic picture long before Descartes.
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