Analysing the Square

In Nordic we say weather points and talk about four corners of the world. The question is if they are the corners or on the middle of the square? They call the corners EK and the centre AK. Observe the summer sides are one-lined and the winter sides are two-lined. We clearly see the same logic on the rock-carvings in Skepplanda. The corner at the autumn ship is marked with PA and we often see the symbol showing where to start. That corner is marked UREK in several rock-carvings. In some places they make the square a rhomboid like the one found at Stonehenge.

Autumn side

The boat-lifter we see on rock-carvings everywhere. It is the Waterman called Wotan, Odin and maybe other names in known time. The Scandinavians were sailors and traders already during Bronze Age and the sailing season was in summer. In autumn they lifted the boat ashore. This one is from rock 5.

Winter side

There is a touch of Egypt on rock 5 and this is "The Corpse" or Osiris. It is the last quarter of winter. ... see about the ritual in chapter Ecosophy.

Spring side

On this spring side is a broken stroke in the centre. The rock-carvings is on rock 06.

Summer side

From rock 4 we get this fourth side.

MADA

The Sumerian Mada-symbol = snake gave naturally the idea to MANADDA or the moon-adda meaning a moon of 29 days. It is also the second root in Ramadan where RA means limit or border.

MA

The boat/ship is very frequent in Bohuslän naturally. However on Dal are few of the kind and this are the nominative MA, meaning ability, power and such things. In Scandinavian languages it is the root in Might and power.

SAM

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SAMEK

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SAMUR

The occurrence made me try the syllable SAM. In Indo-European and Celtic culture it is an important root for commonship and the "gille" or the Celtic feast.

Then I found this with an EK and then SAMEK. It may be the word for a yearly meeting like the old Celtic "kermesse". They maybe held it at Carnac and moved some stones as ritual during the feast. They have not moved twenty-three tons several kilometres without many "bulls". It is the weight of Le Grand Menhir. Nowadays it means a market fair. In Sweden we have the old Disating which was at Candlemas.

MA and SAM

These seven figures are from the Evenstorp rock-carvings and they are placed without order to explain the winter. We can compare them to the indefinite ships at the winter side of the Skepplanda calendar. They have different shapes and are surely writing symbols to be deciphered.

AVE MANADDA

On rock 1 the small symbols are A VE and the jointed figures MAN ADDA. In the left end is three strokes. From different places we know that they waited three moons for spring.

Midsummer

The overall statistic tells that they orient some establishments after midsummer sun, but they orient the main part after the extremes of the moon, i.e. south-west. This quarter boat may be for midsummer ritual.

 Last moon in summer

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The square in a circle

This boat from Evenstorp gave me the idea of trying to make it a side of a 9 x 9 square. It is like a step between square and the circle picturing a yearly round.

22 periods

 Dalbergså

Evenstorp

Gerdhem

The figure 22 strokes or oars we see in early pot ceramics from Gerzeh, Egypt. It is perhaps a division of the year in 40 periods of 9 days. Then the period is 198 days and nearly seven moons as the summer season. At Dalbergså we can maybe read VE EK at first. At Evenstorp they are pure strokes grouped 4 + 2 + 8 + 4 + 4. In Gerdhem, Västergötland they are in two groups 10 + 12. Maybe a few strokes on rock 4 are on the same theme.

Votiv boat 

In Sumer we find this shape of a boat at the time when they wrote the Law. This looks like a votive boat, but can also be the assembly making the law. There is no other votive sign in Högsbyn and that is why I see no special worship. Only normal pragmatic peasants mind as a rule.

Crocodile from Skepplanda

Hard to tell whether it is a crocodile or a fish. Since the crocodile symbolises the ongoing year in Egypt that solution is nearest. In this shape we see that the cargo is the moons of the year. Once we are in Skepplanda let us tie some ships to the calendar.

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the following from Skepplanda calendar

The best evidence about using the boat/ship as symbol of time we find in two pedagogic rock-carvings. In Fossum, Bohuslän there are 12 ships with 29 strokes and a little one with 11. That tells us about counting lunar months. Six of the ships are in a group while the other has explanations around. The other clear calendar is the rock-carvings in Skepplanda with the lunar month symbolised mostly by ships or part of ships. Writing symbols explains the summer section. It has many variants of which some follow here. This is the last full winter moon.

 Spring moon or Crow moon

This shows the break between winter and summer. However telling it is difficult if the circle is the sun or moon. The Egyptians tell that the hood rises, but why not say that the sun raises. Since it is in the beginning of the calendar I think they mark that the moon took over like Thot in Egypt

Boat from R-staf to circle-staf

This is a neutral symbol.

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Third boat shows different symbols in stern and stem showing what will come.

 Sowing?

These are only parts of a boat-shape. The legs under a line we see in Egypt in connection with funeral relief. But are they flying or going to Underworld is the question, since both happened when the KA went up and the BA went down. The same is the case with the corn striving upwards and the roots going downwards. The little symbol is KERTU = gives to.

 From KE to I-KER

On the next boat we see the symbol UN on the centre. Normally it stands for Uni or the Libra, the Lady of Growth. The left stem is KE and the stern is I-KER

 From IN to EK

This boat shows filling of the circles, i.e. the corn in the last growing time. The PA lays over next symbols.

 Corn

Now they double the lines since the harvest will last. The symbol near stem is like the Egyptian Khons-symbol for corn. The circle and the cone associate immediately to Egypt and is the corn to be stores. Aside the picture is a sickle too, however not the Egyptian type.

 Ramadan

This is the crossover to winter half year and an empty boat for that. It is upside down to show that not the same as the empty spring boat. It is seen in other places too. Observe the two small strokes.

Turn winter half year

These symbols means "turnover in winter". Compare them to single lines in summer. Thus, it may be the winter solstice.

 Turnover

Observe the ships are different oriented and the upper boat is empty. The winter solstice had no practical use in getting food. However, it was good to know the days being longer again.

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Hittitian syllables

From the Hittitian syllable language I got the idea about the common footprint. In Hittitian the foot is read PE or PA and possibly also FE/FA. They might have borrowed it from Sumer where it means Du = to do or GUB = to stand. In our symbolism the two-stroked footprint pictures "to do".

 "Pick on"

If we follow the Hittitian logic, this says "pick on". We may expect Celtic word order opposite our’s and that they did not modify verbs at the time. Two picks are the process of picking. However, with muck dualism at the time we could understand a pair behind.

PA

PA is a normal sign to show where to begin or that something begins.

PAEK

On this footprint is a sharp corner. Then it might tell "the corner where to start".

TAPA

Here they mark the toe and then maybe it means "on in the toe".

IP/IPA

The syllable I seem to fit better than EN when the footprint is one-stroked. Then the nearest variant is IPA/IFA or the shortened variant IP/IF. IB is also frequent in Danish as a male name. In Egyptian it means "heart" and we see that symbol in Bohuslän. We know IPA from Hittitian and IF is the English word with understood meanings as "around" and "caring for". Usually used for the male summer idol or the summer half year.

HAIPA?

Here the heel is marked and HA fits for the heel. Then this is HAIPA.

TAIP/TAIPA

We could read a marked toe TAIP or TAIPA as first choice. It is used for Perseus, "He who takes" = Engender. TAIPA may be "He in the toe". Sometimes it is used for the first half of the season or the winter half year. OBSERVE when it comes to names it is just the same which name in words we give

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This is a separate sentence on the northern half on the Law. Maybe it says "Taipa takes over".

Make love with Earth

Something electrical going on. IP is surely the sun and the enclosed Geud is below the surface. The other symbol might read "IP in soil" which in the myth was the lot of Dumuzi. In reality it was the fertilizer from his herd and also the corn with its shell.

KA

On some figures we clearly see that it is not a crossed circle, but crossed footprints.

IP’s heel

In the marriage code we find this symbol. Since they point the heel out the expression "to be at the heel" may fit. It simply means that they took a married couple to the common organisation. Maybe the youngster lived apart from the adult world. That is a vague guess deduced from some symbols.

KA SAM

In the early languages were no verb tenses. Maybe they solved it in this way by saying "go together" then meaning sexual intercourse. In Hittitian they wrote PAPA. On our rocks they also tell about some electrical going on.