4. I cannot finish this chapter without mentioning another example of the 'cloth':  (The picture is from Hamlet's Mill, where it is said to be from A. Gruenwedel, Altbuddhistische Kultstaetten in Chinesisch Turkestan.)
Aquarius is here depticted (top right) inside a jar.
At right is a reversed head of Capricornus. At left
is a very distinct illustration of a piece of cloth.
Therefore the 'towel' is not located at Albali.
I think the rectangular cloth sign could refer to the
Pegasus Square:
Right ascension 0h crosses the ecliptic after the stream of water has gone down to the mouth of the fish (Fomalhaut). In the Baylonian zodiac the Field above the Great One still has water on it, just as if it was a towel recentily used by Aquarius:
A towel should be useful not only after having crossed the river of the Milky Way but also after the water in the sky has been drained away: ... The Pythagoreans make Phaeton fall into Eridanus, burning part of its water, and glowing still at the time when the Argonauts passed by. Ovid stated that since the fall the Nile hides its sources. Rigveda 9.73.3 says that the Great Varuna has hidden the ocean. The Mahabharata tells in its own style why the 'heavenly Ganga' had to be brought down. At the end of the Golden Age (Krita Yuga) a class of Asura who had fought against the 'gods' hid themselves in the ocean where the gods could not reach them, and planned to overthrow the government. So the gods implored Agastya (Canopus, alpha Carinae = Eridu) for help. The great Rishi did as he was bidden, drank up the water of the ocean, and thus laid bare the enemies, who were then slain by the gods. But now, there was no ocean anymore! Implored by the gods to fill the sea again, the Holy One replied: 'That water in sooth hath been digested by me. Some other expedient, therefore, must be thought of by you, if ye desire to make endeavour to fill the ocean ... We can conclude that the Great One should be identical with 'the Great Varuna'. But Agastya, 'the Holy One', Canopus, comes later in the year (at Eridu), where Hora iti is beginning:
If Agastya drank up all the water, then it seems to mean there was a causal connection from the deep end of the flow down at Canopus (06h 21m) backwards in time to its emergence at the urn of Aquarius:
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