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TRANSLATIONS
Now to the structure of the K calendar, a chain of pages not directly relevant for niu, yet necessary in the broader perspective:
The double maro strings in the 10th period of K have 4 + 6 = 10 'feathers', presumably not only to suggest '10' but also - maybe - to indicate the final of the first half-year counted from midwinter. Much information certainly is conveyed by maro feathers, body forms, forms of henua and so on. The analysis must, though, wait until the structure has been studied further and until the right moment according to when respective glyph type will be discussed in the glyph dictionary.
Odd numbers of glyphs in periods govern the summation procedure. At the first summation level we arrive at (10 + 12 + 8), (8 + 18?), (20 + 10) respectively (6 + 14 + 4), i.e. 5 sums before autumn (green and red above) and 5 sums after summer (blue and black above). 10 sums in all. Strictly, though, the summation procedure should lead to (10 + 12 + 16), (18?), (20 + 16) respectively (14 + 4), i.e. to the sums 38, 18?, 36 and 18. 38 and 110 are numbers which tell us that the structure must be wrong or incomplete. In the following page of the dictionary text another arrangement is presented:
Definitely, I believe, the parallel structures with triplets of periods as presented here is no artifact of my mind but something objectively there in the calendars. The half year between spring and autumn equinox (the calendar period for the 'summer' year) is divided in half. Each such half is then divided further into 3 triplets of periods, i.e. 9 periods for each quarter. The exception in K for the last triplet, which has been fused together into just one period (16), must have some reason. The pattern, as described above:
If we let the summation procedure with odd number of glyphs completely determine the perceived structures in G and K we will have:
Lines with odd numbers of glyphs end each of the period groups, while the beginning of such a group may be either a line with an even or an odd number of glyphs. If this structure was intended, then the first 4 periods in G appears to be separate from the rest of the periods. 22 maybe means 2 + 2, otherwise it seems to be rather meaningless. 18, 14 and 16, on the other hand, carries meaning. 40 and 70 as sums of glyphs also carry meaning, in a way dividing the half year into the periods 1-11 respectively 12-18. In K we will have:
There is no reason, according to how the parallel glyphs in G and K look in the first 4 periods, to believe in two different numerical structures. The 2 first periods in K appear to be an artificial product of my mind, and we can forget this K table. It does not convince. 22 appearing in both G and K is probably just a coincidence. 38 is meaningless. The summation results suggested earlier above was (10 + 12 + 16), (18?), (20 + 16) respectively (14 + 4), i.e. ... 38, 18?, 36 and 18 ... If we correct the last item (into 14 instead of 18), we can get:
This larger picture may very well have meaning. The red-marked numbers for number of periods can be read as (13 + 3) = 16 for the 'summer year' and (10 + 3) = 13 for the 'winter year', while the last period (30) may be 'extra-calendrical' (yet possibly to be also added: 10 + 3 + 1 = 14). The sums of glyphs are more interesting: 38, 18?, 36, 14 and 4. We try to add 38 + 18? = 56 (twice 28) and 36 + 14 (+ 4) = 50 (54). 36 for the 10 periods 17-26 is noteworthy. We can imagine a structure for autumn with 36 glyphs (= 20 + 16 for 5 + 5 periods). 14 + 4 = 18 glyphs then follow beyond the 26th period. Likewise 18? glyphs follow beyond the 38 glyphs for the 13 first periods of the calendar. Furthermore, the 3 first periods of the calendar possibly should be regarded as a separate part (judging from what the glyphs suggest), which will lead to 3 + 10 periods with 14 + 24 glyphs. I think we may have hit the right key here:
(3+10+3) + (10+4) = 16 + 14 = 30 periods. The first 16 periods contain 14 + 24 + 18 = 56 (i.e. 7 * 8) glyhphs. The next 14 periods contain 20 + 16 + 18 = 54 (i.e. 6 * 9) glyphs:
A yet more convincing picture conveys sun (red below) in duplicate (10 + 10 = 20 periods with 24 + 36 = 60 glyphs) and moon (blue below) in triplicate (3 + 3 + 3 = 9 periods with 14 + 18? + 14 = 46 glyphs):
However, we should probably adjust the 'moon' glyphs to 14 + 14 + 14 = 42, which is a good number (= 6 * 7). 4 glyphs in period 30 ought to tell us that there must be 4 special glyphs also at the end of the 1st half of the calendar. We must search for the 4 special glyphs in the 16th period and sure enough, we easily can identify them. In G the parallel glyphs are Ga5-12--15:
In K, unfortunately, glyphs are destroyed. In C we have a parallel, though:
Finally, we can present the true picture - I guess - of the K calendar:
42 + 60 + 8 = 110. |
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