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According to Wilkinson the wavy lines which here below have been drawn to resemble scales, imply this fish was moving (heading) upwards (towards the light), because such wavy lines which were used in Egyptian art to visualize water which was resting in basins were drawn vertically:

Therefore we could perceive the wave lines inside the Babylonian Field as also representing vertical movement upwards:

... The wonderful life-organizing assemblage of ideas and principles - including those of kingship, writing, mathematics, and calendrical astronomy - reached the Nile, circa 2800 BC ...

3 lines each carrying 4 wave crests were combed into the measure (message) 12. Down in the Abyss there were 3 lines carrying 3 crests, implying 9.

The rising Egyptian fish (Tilapia nilotica) symbolized rebirth. Its colour was red and it carried its young in its mouth.

The Sumerian cosmos was imprinted in the minds of all humanity. We can, for instance, recognize the rising fish of rebirth in the Northern Fish:

Otherwise it would have been rather difficult to explain the close conjunction between the mouth of the rising fish and the middle of Andromeda.

The glyph type vaha mea is another example of this rising fish of dawn:

FEBR 9 (40) 10 11 12 (365 + 43 = 408) 13 (*329 = 409 - 80)
Gb7-22 Gb7-23 Gb7-24 Gb7-25 Gb7-26 (436)
    POLARIS First Point of Aries  
4-14 (104 = 40 + 64) April 15 (*25) 16 (471 = 364 + 107) 17 (107) 18 (*393 = *329 + *64)
DAY 24 25 26 27 28

... In China, every year about the beginning of April, certain officials called Sz'hüen used of old to go about the country armed with wooden clappers. Their business was to summon the people and command them to put out every fire. This was the beginning of the season called Han-shih-tsieh, or 'eating of cold food'. For three days all household fires remained extinct as a preparation for the solemn renewal of the fire, which took place on the fifth or sixth day after the winter solstice [Sic!] ...

In the current year (2020) the Chinese New Year occurred in January 25 and this was the beginning of the Year of the Rat.

... In China, with Capricornus, Pisces, and a part of Sagittarius, it [Aquarius] constituted the early Serpent, or Turtle, Tien Yuen; and later was known as Hiuen Ying, the Dark Warrior and Hero, or Darkly Flourishing One, the Hiuen Wu, or Hiuen Heaou, of the Han dynasty, which Dupuis gave as Hiven Mao. It was a symbol of the emperor Tchoun Hin, in whose reign was a great deluge; but after the Jesuits came in it became Paou Ping, the Precious Vase. It contained three of the sieu, and headed the list of zodiac signs as the Rat, which in the far East was the ideograph for 'water', and still so remains in the almanacs of Central Asia, Cochin China, and Japan ...

°April 10 (100) 11 (365 + 101 = 466) 12 13 14 (104)
'March 18 (77) 19 (443 = 78 + 365) 20 (*364) 0h 22
MARCH 24 25 (84) 26 (*5) 27
Ga1-3 Ga1-4 Ga1-5 Ga1-6
no star listed (67) Rohini-4 / Pidnu-sha-Shame-4 (Furrow of Heaven) / ANA-MURI-2 (Rear pillar - at the foot of which was the place for tattooing)

ALDEBARAN = α Tauri (68.2), THEEMIN = υ² Eridani (68.5)

no star listed (69) no star listed (70)
May 27 28 (148) 29 30 (*70)
°May 23 24 (144) 25 (*65) 26
'April 30 'May 1 (121) 2 (*42) 3
16 (471 = 314 * 1½) "April 17 (107) 18 (*28) 19
DAY 67 - 64 = 3 4 5 6
3  Hanga Roa

a tuki tukau

4 Okahu

a uka ui hetuu

5 Ra Tahai

a uo

6 Ahu Akapu

a mata kurakura

Ku hú á te huka-huka, ku herohero á i roto i te ahi, burning wood shows red in the fire.

Oka. 1. Lever, pole; to dig holes in the ground with a sharpened stick, as was done in ancient times to plant vegetables; used generally in the meaning of making plantations. 2. The four sideways poles supporting a hare paega. Okaoka, to jab, to pierce, to prick repeatedly. Vanaga. Digging stick, stake, joist; to prick, to pierce, to stick a thing into, to drive into, to slaughter, to assassinate; kona oka kai, plantation; pahu oka, a drawer. Okaoka, a fork, to prick, to dig. Okahia, to prick. Churchill.