The eyes of the Jaguar were caught by the branches of the Tree. They would probably dry out completely up there. Betelgeuze culminated at midnight, which could have been a sign of drying out (because its heliacal rising was where Orion had his right hand down in the Milky Way).
Hanging (tau) victims preceded 21h and Al Sa’d al Bula' described the beginning of Aquarius, where instead of lots of fresh water (μ) there was a swallowing towel for drying out completely:
... I walked towards it now, and spent some time strolling around it and clambering over it. Originally it had been a clean-sided step-pyramid of earth faced with large andesite blocks. In the centuries since the conquest, however, it had been used as a quarry by builders from as far away as La Paz, with the result that only about ten per cent of its superb facing blocks now remained. What clues, what evidence, had those nameless thieves carried off with them? As I climbed up the broken sides and around the deep grassy troughs in the top of the Akapana, I realized that the true function of the pyramid was probably never going to be understood. All that was certain was that it had not been merely decorative or ceremonial. On the contrary, it seemed almost as though it might have functioned as some kind of arcane 'device' or machine. Deep within its bowels, archaeologists had discovered a complex network of zigzagging stone channels, lined with fine ashlars. These had been meticulously angled and jointed (to a tolerance of one-fiftieth of an inch), and had served to sluice water down from a large reservoir at the top of the structure, through a series of descending levels, to a moat that encircled the entire site, washing against the pyramid's base on its southern side ... Anciently the Great Mountain was evidently a significant part of the cosmic time-space diagram. So much is clear that time was running from top and down, ultimately finding its goal in a hole:
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