We live in a happy time, when thanks to vernal equinox at Pisces - a quarter away from the Milky Way - our souls will be able to easily move along the 'spoke' of the wheel (and then up as spirits to Heaven and down again to Earth when the event is due). According to English Etymology 'spook' is of unknown origin. I suggest a wordplay involving spoke: a spook is a ghost who is waiting for the spoke. Pisces is a long constellation covering ca 3 hours or 3 / 24 = 1 / 8 of the year. The lines forming the gap between the 2 fishes has a vertex pointing forward in time, i.e. the opening is towards the past:
When Ragi and Papa were torn apart and the black cloth of the Sky no longer was embracing Earth the arrow of time should point forward towards summer. But the opening between the fishes has its gap towards winter, and we can recognize that the Dendera zodiac is stating the facts correctly when the 'face' of Pisces is 'oriented' (i.e. facing the rising sun):
The staff of the bluemarked figure, from which the Pisces vertex emerges, has no visible constellation in the sky, and I think this kind of staff corresponds to the sign in form of a vertical straight line ('for measurement' as I have provisionally labelled it):
In the Dendera zodiac I can perceive the staff type to be was, an emblem of power Wilkinson says:
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