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Where was the 1st star on the Path of Ea? It should be south of the equatorial area:

Ecliptic path 20 stars
Path of Enlil 33 northern stars 71
Path of Anu 23 equatorial stars
Path of Ea 15 southern stars
  91 stars

When the Sun is south of the equatorial belt there is no time for summer in the north. When summer arrives in the north, then the winter 'goat' is driven away:

In order to make the explorers leave their old homeland at a meaningful star date I had assumed 'April 25' was to be measured not from the Hyades Gate but from the Haedus Gate (η and ζ Aurigae), rising with the Sun 11 days later in the year. In Auriga there definitely was no sun horse, only the Charioteer himself down on his knees in the Milky Way river, carrying goats on his back:

... In the story of Phaëton, which is another name for Helius himself (Homer, Iliad xi. 735 and Odyssey v. 479), an instructive fable has been grafted on the chariot allegory, the moral being that fathers should not spoil their sons by listening to female advice. This fable, however, is not quite so simple as it seems: it has a mythic importance in its reference to the annual sacrifice of a royal prince, on the one day reckoned as belonging to the terrestrial, but not to the sidereal year, namely that which followed the shortest day. The sacred king pretended to die at sunset; the boy interrex was at once invested with his titles, dignities, and sacred implements, married to the queen, and killed twenty-four hours later: in Thrace, torn to pieces by women disguised as horses ... but at Corinth, and elsewhere, dragged at the tail of a sun-chariot drawn by maddened horses, until he was crushed to death. Thereupon the old king reappeared from the tomb where he had been hiding ... as the boy's successor ...

... And there is little doubt, in fact none, that Phaethon (in the strange transformation scenes of successive ages) came to be understood as Saturn. There is the testimony of Erastosthenes' Catasterisms, according to which the planet Saturn was Phaethon who fell from the chariot into Eridanus, and Stephanus of Byzantium calls Phaethon a Titan ...

(Tavake, the tropic bird, Phaeton.)

... After they had departed from Pu Pakakina they reached Vai Marama and met a man. Ira asked, 'How many are you?' He answered, 'There are two of us.' Ira continued asking, 'Where is he (the other)?' To that he answered, 'The one died.' Again Ira asked, 'Who has died?' He replied, 'That was Te Ohiro A Te Runu.' Ira asked anew, 'And who are your?' He answered, 'Nga Tavake A Te Rona.'

I.e., I would have to change for instance my nakshatra date MAY 3 (123) to day 123 - 11 = 112 (APRIL 22). And 'April 25' could then be nakshatra APRIL 25 at the twin figures with an attention dot in Ga8-25:

Ga8-22 Ga8-23 Ga8-24 (227) Ga8-25 Ga8-26
●OCTOBER 21 22 (295) 23 (*216) 24 25
NOVEMBER 1 2 (306) 3 (*227) 4 5
19h (289.2) Al Baldah-19 / Cargo Boat-91 Aladfar (291.1), Nodus II (291.5), ψ Sagittarii (291.6), θ Lyrae (291.8) ω Aquilae (292.1), ρ Sagittarii (292.6), υ Sagittarii (292.7) Arkab Prior (293.0), Arkab Posterior, Alrami (293.2), χ Sagittarii (293.6)
λ Aquilae (Ant.) (289.1), γ Cor. Austr (289.3), τ Sagittarii (289.4), ι Lyrae (289.5), δ Cor. Austr. (289.8) AL BALDAH, ALPHEKKA MERIDIANA (290.1), β Cor. Austr. (290.2)
January 4 5 (370) 6 7 8
ºDecember 31 (*285) ºJanuary 1 (366) 2 3 4
'December 8 9 10 (*264) 11 (345) 12
"November 24 25 (329) 26 (*250) 27 28
NAKSHATRA DATES:
●APRIL 22 (112) 23 (177 - 64 = 113) 24 25 (480) 26 (*36)
MAY 3 (123) 4 5 (*45) 6 7 (492)
WEZEN (107.1), τ Gemini (107.7), δ Monocerotis (107.9) no star listed (108) λ Gemini (109.4), Wasat (109.8) no star listed (110) Aludra (111.1), Propus (111.4),  Gomeisa (111.6)
July 6 7 (188) 8 9 10
ºJuly 2 3 (*104) 4 (185) 5 6
'June 9 10 (*81) 11 12 13 (164)
"May 26 (*66) 27 28 (148) 29 30

Heliacal January 5 + 183 » nakshatra July 7 (188) and then 188 (July 7) - 4 = Gregorian 184 (ºJuly 3). Gregorian 184  (ºJuly 3) - 11 = Gregorian 177 (= 6 * 29½, ºJune 26) and then 177 - 64 = 113 (●APRIL 23 according to the ancient Goat at the Gate, Haedus II). This could be were the meridian star (α Corona Borealis, the Cargo Boat) was truly located, 295 days after 0h at the time of the Haedus Gate.

The glyph numbers in line Ga8 agree with the day numbers in ●APRIL and the explorers maybe left their ancient homeland at Ga8-25.

Pure speculation of course. The Path of Ea (the god of waters) began with star number 91 - 14 = 77 and this was Ea himself, probably Fomalhaut in Piscis Austrinus:

BABYLONIAN ECLIPTIC CONSTELLATIONS:
1  1-iku Field measure  τ (Anunitum) Pisces 16.5 April 6 (96)
2 Mahrū-sha-rishu-ku Front of the Head of Ku β (Sheratan), γ (Mesarthim) Arietis 27.4 April 17 (107)
3 Arku-sha-rishu-ku Back of the Head of Ku α (Hamal) Arietis 30.5 April 20 (110)
4 Temennu Foundation Stone η (Alcyone) Tauri 56.1 May 16 (136)
5 Pidnu-sha-Shame Furrow of Heaven α (Aldebaran) Tauri 68.2 May 28 (148)
6 Shur-narkabti-sha-iltanu Star in the Bull towards the north β (El Nath) Tauri 80.9 June 9 (160)
7 Shur-narkabti-sha-shūtū Star in the Bull towards the south ζ (Heavenly Gate) Tauri 84.0 June 13 (164)
8 Maru-sha-pu-u-mash-mashu Front of the Mouth of the Twins η (Tejat Prior) Gemini 93.4 June 22 (173)
9 Arkū-sha-pu-u-mash-mashu Back of the Mouth of the Twins μ (Tejat Posterior) Gemini 95.4 June 24 (175)
10 Mash-mashu-sha-Risū Twins of the Shepherd (?) γ (Alhena) Gemini 103.8 July 2 (183)
11 Mash-mashu-Mahrū Western One of the Twins α (Castor) Gemini 113.4 July 12 (193)
12 Mash-mashu-arkū Eastern One of the Twins β (Pollux) Gemini 116.2 July 15 (196)
13 Arkū-sha-nangaru-sha-shūtu Southeast Star in the Crab δ (Ascellus Australis) Cancri 131.4 July 30 (211)
14 Rishu A. Head of the Lion ε (Ras Elaset Australis) Leonis 146.6 Aug 14 (226)
15 Sharru King α (Regulus) Leonis 152.7 Aug 20 (232)
16 Maru-sha-arkat-Sharru 4th Son behind the King ρ (Shir) Leonis 158.9 Aug 26 (238)
17 Zibbat A. Tail of the Lion β (Denebola) Leonis 178.3 Sept 15 (258)
18 Shēpu-arkū sha-A Hind Leg of the Lion β (Alaraph) Virginis 178.6 Sept 15 (258)
19 Shur-mahrū-shirū Front or West Shur (?) γ (Porrima) Virginis 191.5 Sept 28 (271)
20 Sa-Sha-Shirū Virgin's Girdle α (Spica) Virginis 202.7 Oct 9 (282)
PATH OF ENLIL:
21 Enlil Plough Draco    
           
PATH OF ANU:
54-57 1-Iku Seat of Ea Pegasus Square    
           
PATH OF EA:
77 Ea Fish α (Fomalhaut) Piscis Austrinus 347.8 Mar 3 (62)
           
89 Pabilsag   Sagittarius    
90   Cargo-Boat α (Alphekka Meridiana) Corona Australis 290.1 Jan 5 (370)
91   Goatfish Capricorn    

... But if the flow is perpetual, it still had a point of 'beginning' and this is found in the Bhagavata Purana (Wilson, p. 138, n. 11): 'The river flowed over the great toe of Vishnu's left foot, which had previously, as he lifted it up, made a fissure in the shell of the mundane egg, and thus gave entrance to the heavenly stream.'

How can the Milky Way pour its waters over Polaris? And how can it flow to the four quarters of the earth? Indian diagrams remained fanciful, in the same way as Western medieval ones. It takes some time for one who looks at the great tympanon at Vézelay to realize there is a space-time diagram, as it were, of world history centered on the figure of Christ. The effect is all the greater for the transpositions.

It was not wholly absurd, either, for archaic cosmology to have double locations, one, for instance, on the ecliptic and one circumpolar. If Tezcatlipoca drilled fire at the pole to 'kindle new stars', if the Chinese Saturn had his seat there too, so could Vishnu's toe have bilocation: one 'above' in the third region, the other in beta Orionis-Rigel (the Arabian word for 'foot'), the 'source' of Eridanus. (And might not Rigel-the-source stand also for Oervandil's Toe, catasterized by Thor?) For Rigel marked the way to Hades in the tradition of the Maori of New Zealand as well as in the Book of Hermes Trismegistos ...

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Gb2-27 (53) Gb2-28 Gb2-29 (284) Gb2-30 Gb2-31
●DECEMBER 17 (351) 18 19 (*273) 20 21
DECEMBER 28 29 30 (364) 31 (*285) JANUARY 1
ι Cephei (346.0), λ Aquarii, γ Piscis Austrini, σ Pegasi (346.5) Ea-77 Fum al Samakah (348.3), ζ Gruis (348.5), ο Andromedae (348.9) Al Fargh al Mukdim-24 / Purva Bhādrapadā-26 / House-13 23h (350.0)
Scheat Aquarii (347.0), ρ Pegasi (347.2), δ Piscis Austrini (347.4), FOMALHAUT (347.8) Scheat Pegasi, π Piscis Austrini (349.3), κ Gruis (349.4), MARKAB PEGASI (349.5) υ, θ Gruis (350.0), π Cephei (350.6), ι Gruis (350.9)
March 2 3 (427) 4 5 (64) 6
ºFebruary 26 27 (58) 28 (*364) ºMarch 1 2 (426)
'February 3 4 5 (36) 6 7 (403)
"January 20 21 22 23 (388) 24
NAKSHATRA DATES:
●JUNE 18 19 (*90) 20 MIDSUMMER EVE 22 (173)
JUNE 29 30 JULY 1 (182) 2 3
no star listed (164)

Altair

Wings-27 ANA-TIPU 11h (167.4)  Al Sharas (168.6)
η Oct. (165.4), ALKES (165.6) Merak (166.2), DUBHE (166.7) χ¹ Hydrae (167.1), χ² Hydrae (167.3)
September 1 2 3 4 5 (248)
ºAugust 28 (*160) 29 30 31 ºSeptember 1 (244)
'August 5 6 7 8 (220) 9
7-22 23 "July 24 25 26 (207)

Flowing waters accompanied the Fish God Ea on his way up and a hipu seems to have replenished the water in Gb2-27 (π), in day 350 + 1 (●DECEMBER 17). In the following glyph we can see a vaha mea and here there could indeed be reason to depict the opening (vaha) of a new season like a fish.

It should, though, be remembered that it was also described how sweet water circulated:from the Urn of heliacal Sadalmelik (The Lucky King, α Aquarii) down to the mouth of the upside down Southern Fish:

This was around 22h and Gb2-16 was *260 days after 0h at the time of the Goat:

Gb2-12 Gb2-13 Gb2-14 (40) Gb2-15 (270) Gb2-16
●DECEMBER 2 (336) 3 4 5 (*260)
LUCIA DECEMBER 14 15 16 (350) 17
Kuh (331.4), γ Gruis (331.5) no star listed (332) η Piscis Austrini (333.4) 22h (334.8) ι Pegasi (335.0), Alnair (335.1), μ Piscis Austrini, υ Piscis Austrini (335.3), Woo (335.7), Baham, τ Piscis Austrini (335.8)
Kae Uh (334.0), Al Kurhah (334.4), SADALMELIK, Al Dhanab (334.6), ι Aquarii, ν Pegasi (334.7)
February 15 16 (2-16) 17 (413) 18 19 (50)
'January 19 (384) 20 21 22 23
"January 5 (370) 6 7 8 9
NAKSHATRA DATES:
●JUNE 3 4 (*75) 5 6 (157) 7
JUNE 14 15 16 17 (168) 18
Tseen Ke (149.9) ν Leonis (150.1), π Leonis (150.6) υ² Hydrae (151.8) Al Jabhah-8 / Maghā-10 / Sharru-15 λ Hydrae (153.2)
10h (152.2)
AL JABHAH (152.4), REGULUS (152.7)
August 17 18 19 20 (232) 21
'July 21 22-7 23 (204) 24 25
"July 7 8 9 (190) 10 11
Gb2-17 Gb2-18 Gb2-19 Gb2-20 (275)
●DECEMBER 7 8 9 (343) 10 (*264)
DECEMBER 18 19 20 (354 = 6 * 59) SOLSTICE
ζ Cephei (336.2), λ Cephei (336.3), -/270 Lac. (336.7), λ Piscis Austrini (336.8) μ Gruis (337.0), ε Cephei (337.2), 1/325 Lac. (337.3), Ancha (337.4), ψ Oct. (337.5), α Tucanae (337.9) Al Sa'ad al Ahbiyah-23 / Shatabisha-25
β/172 Lac. (339.2), 4/1100 Lac. (339.4), π Aquarii (339.5)

Castor

ε Oct. (338.1), ρ Aquarii (338.2), 2/365 Lac. (338.5), SADACHBIA (338.6), π Gruis (338.9)
February 20 (2-20) 21 (52) 22 (418) Terminalia
'January 24 25 26 27 (392)
"January 10 1-11 12 13-13 (378)
NAKSHATRA DATES:
●JUNE 8 9 (*80) 10 (161) 11
JUNE 19 20 (171 = 9 * 19) SOLSTICE 22
Adhafera, Tania Borealis, Simiram (154.7) Algieba, q Carinae (155.5) Tania Australis (156.0), Ghost of Jupiter (156.8) Extended Net-26b
μ HYDRAE (157.1)
August 22 23 24 25 (237)
'July 26 27 28 29 (210)
"July 12 13 14 15 (196)

From Gb2-16 to Terminalia (February 23) - when Castor culminated - there were 4 days and then there were a further 8 days to heliacal Fomalhaut.