If we orient the picture so that the backward looking Ram (which is part of our well known northern hemisphere zodiac) will be in the center as the end of winter, i.e. moving the dial of time to some 2000 years BC, then the special attention given to the ram in the outer circle can be understood:  Only the front part of this outer circle ram is seen, as if he was rising up from a hole in the ground. Congruent with a spring equinox Ram is a winter solstice Aquarius (2 signs earlier) and a summer solstice Cancer (3 signs later). The year therefore seems to end with autumn equinox at Libra, but the blue southern zodiac intrudes here. New year south of the equator is the main event, not autumn equinox north of the equator:  Beyond Scorpio there are 2 blue signs before the standing ram god apparently defines the onset of southern spring. It is similar to how in the north 2 black signs (Aquarius and Pisces) come before the Ram. Above the northern Ram is a strange constellation difficult to see clearly. But at the bottom of the long vertical assemblage two 'persons' are drawn back-to-back, the one at left is standing tall and the one at right is sitting down. We can also recognize the famous leg constellation hanging above the head of the lying down Ram:
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