... This [σ] has been identified with Nunki of the Euphratean Tablet of the Thirty Stars, the Star of the Proclamation of the Sea, this Sea being the quarter occupied by Aquarius, Capricornus, Delphinus, Pisces, and Pisces Australis. It is the same space in the sky that Aratos designated as Water ...

At that time I speculated:

.. The distance from Procyon to Arcturus is 216 - 116 = 100 days, certainly a fact which had been noted. If we had put Procyon at Ga4-5, then Arcturus ('the pillar to stand by') would have been at Ga8-12:


*Ga8-9 (277)**	Ga8-10	Ga8-11	*Ga8-12 (280)**


Ga8-13	Ga8-14	Ga8-15	Ga8-16

But 280 - 100 = 180 is probably instead the distance from Phaed (Ana-iva) and spring equinox.


Ga4-1	Ga4-2

Spring equinox (?)

Ga4-3	Ga4-4	*Ga4-5 (180)**

Ga4-6 (117)	Ga4-7	Ga4-8

... If we imagine Sun as a great bird in the sky, then ... [the] arrow (with bird's feathers at its end) is not pointing at Mother Earth but at the Sun bird. Sagittarius aims his arrow at the heart of Scorpio (Antares), where the Sun bird has his habitat this time of the year. Afraid, the Sun bird therefore takes to his wings and flies upwards, which leaves a trail in form of the Milky Way between Sagittarius and Gemini.

As to the other archer, she seems to compel the Sun bird to leave the Milky Way and once again move along the ecliptic.

Such could be the origin of the 'landscape' imagined in the night sky. My details are certainly not exact, but I think the main picture is this old division of the sky into 'land' and 'sea'.

The precession has moved Gemini and the rest of the picture away from the inital correspondence betweend the map of the sky and the map of time down on earth (north of the equator). However, the structure probably was remembered up to modern times ...

I now wish to change my earlier suggestion and instead say that Ga8-12 at the time of G probably indicated the approaching end of the year according to the Gregorian calendar:


*Ga8-10 (277)**	Ga8-11	Ga8-12 (216)
	Kaus Medius, κ Lyrae (277.5), Tung Hae (277.7), Kaus Australis (278.3)	Al Athfar (278.6), Kaus Borealis (279.3)
'December 23	'24	'25
"October 21	"22 (295)	"23

216 is still the number of the glyph, but *280 may have to be changed into *279, although it is an open question whether we should add 63 or 64 to the glyph numbers.

216 can possibly be understood as half 432, where the 'End of the River' could be marked by Achernar:


*Gb7-19 (21)**	Gb7-20	Gb7-21 (432)	Gb7-22
		Achernar (23.3)
'April 11	'12	'13	'14 (104)


*Gb7-23 (25)**	Gb7-24	Gb7-25 (436)	Gb7-26	Gb7-27
	Polaris, Baten Kaitos (26.6), Metallah (26.9), Segin, Mesarthim (27.2), Sheratan (27.4)			Alrisha (29.2)
'April 15	'16	'17	'18 (108)	'19

The heliacal rising of Phakt (Ana-iva, the 9th Tahitian star pillar, α Columbae) was at the time of G presumably in 'June 14, a week before the solstice:


Ga1-17	Ga1-18	Ga1-19	Ga1-20	Ga1-21
Bellatrix, Saif al Jabbar (80.7), Elnath (80.9)	Nihal (81.7), Mintaka (82.4)	ε Columbae (82.6), Arneb (83.0), Heka (83.2)	Hatysa (83.5), Alnilam (83.7), Heavenly Gate (84.0)	Alnitak, Phakt (Phaet), (84.7)
'June 10	'11	'12 (163)	'13	'14


Ga1-22	Ga1-23	Ga1-24	Ga1-25	*Ga1-26 (90)**
γ Leporis (85.9)	Saiph (86.5), ζ Leporis (86.6)	Wezn (87.6), δ Leporis (87.7), Betelgeuze (88.3)	η Leporis (89.0), Praja-pāti, Menkalinan, Mahashim, and γ Columbae (89.3)	η Columbae (89.7), μ Orionis (90.3)
'15	'16	'17	'18	'19 (170)


Ga1-27	*Ga1-28 (92)**	Ga1-29
χ² Orionis (90.5), ν Orionis (91.4)		ξ Orionis (92.5), Tejat Prior (93.4)
6h (91.3)	'June 21 (172)	'22

There should still be 100 days from the heliacal rising of Procyon to that of Arcturus, but as to the distance from Ga4-5 to Ga8-12 I stumbled; the distance is 216 - 89 = 127 (not 100):


*Ga4-1 (148)**	Ga4-2	Ga4-3	Ga4-4
υ¹ Hydrae (148.4)	Ras Elaset Borealis (148.7)	ν Leonis (150.1)	π Leonis (150.6)
'August 16 (228)	'17	'18	'19


Ga4-5	Ga4-6 (90)	*Ga4-7 (154)**
υ² Hydrae (151.8), Al Jabhah (152.4)	Regulus (152.7), λ Hydrae (153.2)
10h (152.2)	'21	'22

The glyph at position 216 - 100 = 116 is Ga5-5 (with Phekda, γ Ursa Majoris, not Phakt, α Columbae):


Ga5-3	Ga5-4	Ga5-5 (116)
ζ Crateris, ξ Virginis (177.0), λ Muscae (177.1), ν Virginis (177.2)	μ Muscae (177.8), 93 Leonis (178.0), Denebola (178.3)	Alaraph (178.6), Phekda, β Hydrae (179.3)
'September 14	'15	'16 (259)

However, as I have explained earlier I will generally not use our valuable time to correct such mistakes.