1. Now we ought to return to glyph line b2 and the interesting rima aueue signs in Gb2-16, where we can imagine 472 - 216 refers to 256:
Perhaps it means the star in question (maybe Al Nā'ir) is not visible until it has risen 16º above the horizon in the east. By adding 64 its day number will be 336, which is necessary if we wish to connect it with the present right ascension of Al Nā'ir:
272 (at Gb2-16) - 30 (at Ga1-29) = 242, as if to indicate the back side (because side b has 242 glyphs). However, the distance from Ga1-29 to Gb2-16 is not half a year but ca ⅔ of a solar year. In the Babylonian zodiac the distance from Eridu to the Great One is also around ⅔ of a year:
Beyond summer solstice comes the back side of the year. It does not mean, however, that 'sea' is beginning already with Ninmah, we should rather look where the Milky Way is submerging the ecliptic. The ecliptic path of the planets is a straightforward matter, it never curves. In contrast the Milky Way is never straight, it is like a river. With Eridu at the end of the river, i.e. very far down, we should look up in the high mountains in order to find the beginning, the small streams which will grow in size with time. The season of this downward flow of sweet water was imagined to begin with Aquarius:  The curve of the stream indicates Aquarius is standing on a hill. Once upon a time Aquarius must have stood at winter solstice, at the beginning of the solar year north of the equator. Maybe an initial quarter of Aquarius later was expanded to reach all the way to Leo. Or maybe already from the beginning Aquarius stretched all the way to the head of the Lion, beyond Gemini. 'Land' certainly must have arrived when Leo rose heliacally, so much is clear from the theory of correspondences. On the other hand, evidence from the G text and from the Babylonian zodiac indicates the season of 'spring' (the sweet water rivers flowing from the jug of Aquarius) was ca 120 / 360 = ⅓, with 'land' stretching for the remaing ⅔ of the year. Thus 'spring' (in the sky) could correspond to the season ruled by the Rain God, so to say. In India the monsoon season normally has a duration of about 4 months. When south of the equator Sun is in Gemini, close to Tropus, a little more than a quarter has passed since autumn equinox:
The text seems to say that 'Eridu' (the final of the rainy season) is located just beyond winter solstice. Its beginning could then be where the flows are emerging at the top end of Gb2-16, where we can imagine the presence of the Flamingo:
The month names on Easter Island indicate a rainy season is beginning with Vaitu nui (the great 'standing up' of sweet water), i.e. with the 10th month:
Vaitu nui is translated as April by Barthel. Our 4th month is in spring, but south of the equator it becomes the 10th month and the beginning of the last quarter. The Aquarius constellation is at present around 22h counted from spring equinox north of the equator, which means around 16h (⅔ of the cycle) counted from summer solstice. South of the equator ⅔ of the cycle counted from winter solstice is around 240 days:
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