In Hevelius' illustration the right arm of Aquarius is pushing through the 'ear' of the Urn from which a fluid runs out in a river ending in the mouth of the upside down Southern Fish:  The Southern Fish, Piscis Austrinus, is evidently swimming right side up on the other side of the flow from the Urn.
To gain further insight we should look at the nakshatra
side:
The Knot (Ukdah) at the neck of the Hydra (water serpent) was visible in the night sky when Sun reached Sadalsud (β Aquarii). The meaning seems to be an illustration of how the watery serpent of winter has been stopped. ... Sadalsuud [β Aquarii] - not Sund nor Saud, as frequently written - is from Al Sa'd al Su'ud, liberally translated the Luckiest of the Lucky, from its rising with the sun when the winter had passed and the season of gentle, continuous rain had begun. In Ca12-10 the picture could well illustrate how Sun will be rejuvenated after 320 days, how after 320 days of separation from his mother he returns for a while to his 'Urn':
... γ [Aquarii], 4.1, greenish, on the right arm at the inner edge of the Urn, and the westernmost star in the Y, is Sadachbia, from Al Sa'd al Ahbiyah, which has been interpreted the Lucky Star of Hidden Things or Hiding-places, because when it emerged from the sun's rays all hidden worms and reptiles, buried during the preceding cold, creep out of their holes! But as this word Ah Biyah is merely the plural of Hibā', a Tent, a more reasonable explanation is that the star was so called from its rising in the spring twilight, when, after the winter's want and suffering, the nomads' tents were raised on the freshening pastures, and the pleasent weather set in. This idea renders Professor Whitney's 'Felicity of Tents' a happy translation of the original ... The Pyramid of Cheops - his 'tent' - was designed to resemble 'Earth': "The basic idea of the Great Pyramid was that it should be a representation of the northern hemisphere of the earth, a hemisphere projected on flat-surfaces as is done in map-making ... The Great Pyramid was a projection on the four triangular surfaces. The apex represented the pole and the perimeter represented the equator. This is the reason why the perimeter is in relation to 2pi to the height. The Great Pyramid represents the northern hemisphere in a scale of 1:43,200." (Stecchini according to Graham Hancock, Fingerprints of the Gods.) The top flame of Sun in Ca12-10 is a Sign. The apex flame is triangular and probably it represents a cardinal point. |
