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2. We can guess it is our own constellation Aquarius which is illustrated in Gb2-16, where the heliacal rising of its α star (Sadalmelik, the Lucky One of the King) ought to have been at the time of G:

Gb2-15 Gb2-16 (272) Gb2-17 (*336)
Kae Uh (334.0) Sadalmelik (334.6), ι Aquarii (334.7)  
'February 18 '22h (414.8) '20
Saad Al Thabib 8 (*414) 9 10 (280)

I am very pleased with myself, because I recognize the sign of gushing water - see at Da Capo:

'215' 82
Ga1-29 (30) Ga1-30 Gb5-5 (359) Gb7-31 (442)
'216' = 12 * 18 84 = 12 * 7
300 = 12 * 25
Ga1-29 (30)
the 'wreck' of a man
end of 'water' (?)

The 'wavy arm' sign I have named rima aueue:

rima aueue
Aue

Ah, alas. Aueue, oh. P Pau., Ta.: aue, alas. Mgv.: aue, auhe, alas. Mq.: aue, oh, alas; auhe, a sigh. Exclamation in general representing the most primordial type of speech, it seems that this may be reduced to recognizable elements. The e is throughout these languages a vocative or hailing sign, commonly postpositive in relation to the person hailed. In the examination of au we have shown that the primal first person singular designation is u. With the comparatively scanty material afforded by this vocabulary we may not attempt to define the use of a but we have no hesitation in noting that proof based on wider studies will show it to have, inter alia, a characteristic function as a word-maker. In a very high degree, then, a-u-e is represented by a common English interjection 'oh my!' in which oh = a, my = u, and e = !. Churchill.

What is this cry which our primitive islanders share with the animals? Look at its elements, all full-throated. First we have a, the sound of mouth open, fauces open, lungs full of air. As air expires the sound recedes in the mouth towards the palate and we find the u. Last comes the conscious finish of the utterance, the muscles begin to retract, the sound-making point is forced forward and the sound is e. If the man had but a few more cubic centimeters of lung capacity he could attain cow volumne for his cry, or interjection, since it amounts to the same thing. Churchill 2.

Ue

Uéué, to move about, to flutter; he-uéué te kahu i te tokerau, the clothes flutter in the wind; poki oho ta'e uéué, obedient child. Vanaga.

1. Alas. Mq.: ue, to groan. 2. To beg (ui). Ueue: 1. To shake (eueue); kirikiri ueue, stone for sling. PS Pau.: ueue, to shake the head. Mq.: kaueue, to shake. Ta.: ue, id. Sa.: lue, to shake, To.: ue'í, to shake, to move; luelue, to move, to roll as a vessel in a calm. Niuē: luelue, to quake, to shake. Uvea: uei, to shake; ueue, to move. Viti: ue, to move in a confused or tumultous manner. 2. To lace. Churchill.

Water and Gb2-16 have been mentioned several times earlier, see for instance at Rehua:

... I have above suggested Aquarius could be in line b2 and in the Babylonian zodiac his position is at the Great One, who is standing on a fish. Its picture of flowing water is like that in Gb2-16:

Gb2-9 Gb2-10 (266) Gb2-11 Gb2-12
Gb2-13 Gb2-14 Gb2-15 Gb2-16 (*336)

If autumn equinox is defined by number 266, then Sun will have 'descended' at Gb2-16. The picture in Gb2-16 looks more like that of Eridu than of that of the Great One, which in a way makes sense because south of the equator Eridu is located in autumn. But a discussion of the glyphs in line b2 will have to wait ...

[Raven (Corvus) is today at the beginning of autumn (north of the equator) and 1 / 8 * 26000 = ca 3250 years ago it would have been close to midsummer. At that time Eridu would have been at around spring equinox (= autumn equinox south of the equator).]