The main problem with this type of glyph (GD56) is the sitting posture. We can recognize the solar head (round and open mouth formed into a wedge), the wing, and the open hand outwards oriented.

At first I had the idea that the wavy legs meant the waves of the sea, that this person was bathing or traveling on sea. And indeed, trying to understand Wednesday this thought seemed promising. In time of chaos there is no firm ground and water is a good image for that. Try to stand up in a canoe and you will understand what I mean.

I remember a phrase from an old Hittite legend:

'Why have you not given battle? You stand on chariots of water, you are almost turned into water yourself...' (The Hittites)

There is a taste of water in this glyph. We should also remember that it is located in the third partition of this part of the text (2a2), which presumably means that we are no longer on 'dry land' but in the 'waters below'.

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