Spica (Ana-roto) could have determined the great vero in Cb8-6. And then the view suddenly may have shifted from nakshatra to heliacal:
Cb8-1 is glyph 564 - 392 = 172 from the beginning of side b - as if this was a kind of '2nd midsummer' (because of the pair of Suns and June 21 = Gregorian day 172). October 6 (279) - 172 = 107 (April 17). From heliacal Sheratan and nakshatra Arcturus 4 days later to nakshatra Revati and heliacal Spica 4 nights later there are 177 = 6 * 29½ glyphs:
Heliacal Spica was connected with Alcor (80 Ursae Majoris) and therefore indirectly also with Mizar (ζ Ursae Majoris). Apami-Atsa ('Child of Waters', θ Virginis) rose with the Sun in October 5 and in the midnight culminated Regulus (the Sun child). 4 days later, in April 10, rose Ksora (δ Cassiopeiae) heliacally and at midnight culminated Sadalmelik (α Aquarii) - maybe he should be thought of as the 'King of Waters'. By shifting the perspective from heliacal to nakshatra (Sheratan to Revati) or from nakshatra to heliacal (Arcturus to Spica) the time measure evidently is 177 nights, but counted in glyphs there are 5 missing:
The 'pillar' in the middle (Spica) was close to the equator of the sky, but maybe also located at the center of time. The 5 days preceding October 10 (where 8 * 10 = 80) could be outside the ordinary calendar (because 177 - 172 = 5). ... Spica and Zeta Virginis [Heze] formed Jiao, the horn of the Blue Dragon cang long. Jiao, ‘horn’, was also the first of the 28 Chinese lunar mansions. Since the ecliptic passed between the two stars of Jiao the pair were seen as a gateway for the Sun, Moon and planets (there are many such gateways in the Chinese sky) ...
In the night of October 10 there were no important stars close to the Full Moon. But it could be observed that half a year later, in April 13, Achernar would rise together with the Sun, at the very bottom of the Eridanus River and at the tail of the Toucan (who has no tail feathers):
The Phoenix is standing on the back of the Toucan and they are looking in opposite directions. The Phoenix is looking ahead, while the Toucan is looking towards the past. Maybe the Toucan is a female. Heliacal Achernar (α Eridani) in April 13 (104) had Heze (ζ Virginis) as nakshatra star. 205.0 (Heze) - 23.3 (Achernar) = 181.7. A crocodile could embody the idea of the border between water and land, a dangerous creature not far in thought and appearance from the Wolf up on land:
(A. Fleming, Fenrir, 1874.) But Fenrir was hardly up on 'Land', his habitat was different. In the Babylonian zodiac the Wolf was outside the ordered flow of time, and instead he was up in the central region of the northern sky dome, where time was close to standing still:
In G the terrible gap could have been illustrated in glyph 300, just before 0h:
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