4. The 'double' events of end and birth should coincide, which might explain why there is an Eagle rising high on one hand (in the Babylonian zodiac) and a Falling Eagle (μ Lyrae was Al Athfār, the Talons of the Falling Eagle) on the other:

... When the earth appears 'no bigger than a pea' (analogous similes are to be found also in Etana), the griffin plunges straightaway to the bottom of the sea, where the hero finds a certain object for which he had looked everywhere, and finally he is restored to land ...

The vertical dimension is stretched out to its maximum, and the strings for measurement must be drawn out so tight as to make them sing.

... In the beginning were Rangi and Papa, Sky and Earth. Darkness existed. Rangi adhered over Papa his wife. Man was not. A person arose, a spirit who had no origin; his name was Rangitokona, the Heaven-propper. He went to Rangi and Papa, bid them go apart, but they would not. Therefore Rangitokona separated Rangi and Papa, he thrust the sky above. He thrust him with his pillars ten in number end to end; they reached up to the Fixed-place-of-the-Heavens. After this separation Rangi lamented for his wife: and his tears are the dew and the rain which ever fall on her ...

I guess there has to be 10 pillars on top of each other because 12 lunar months is not enough for a 'star year', 364 = 12 * 29½ + 10.

I am convinced the idea of a string instrument at Vega was put there in order to explain how the feeble old year is transported to a place very high up followed immediately by a new bright fire emerging at the very bottom of time. The living spirit (manu rere) has to do a quick dive all the way down to the rock bottom.

Line a8 is at the top of the front side of the G tablet and line b8 at the top of the back side. Possibly both line a1 and line b1 - at the bottom of the sides - represent time after the birth of new 'years'.

Saul is above and made sleepy from the string music played by David at the bottom: