At the other side of the Milky Way compared to the claw of the Eagle (below his feathered wings) - evidently illustrating departure - there should be rebirth and indeed this we can see at Ninmah:

... Sagittarius has his front feet on the Cargo Boat [Corona Australis] and below Serpent there is another boat in form of the headgear of Ninmah. This headgear should be contrasted with the feathers adorning the preceding Eridu. Feathers on the head ought to be a sign which shows Sun in his last stage, when he is hidden away ... Eridu is far deep down and we should remember this is the place where fire was kept: ... In the morning of the world, there was nothing but water. The Loon was calling, and the old man who at that time bore the Raven's name, Nangkilstlas, asked her why. 'The gods are homeless', the Loon replied. 'I'll see to it', said the old man, without moving from the fire in his house on the floor of the sea. Then as the old man continued to lie by his fire, the Raven flew over the sea. The clouds broke. He flew upward, drove his beak into the sky and scrambled over the rim to the upper world. There he discovered a town, and in one of the houses a woman had just given birth. The Raven stole the skin and form of the newborn child. The Raven stole the skin and form of the newborn child. Then he began to cry for solid food, but he was offered only mother's milk. That night, he passed through the town stealing an eye from each inhabitant. Back in his foster parents' house, he roasted the eyes in the coals and ate them, laughing. Then he returned to his cradle, full and warm. He had not seen the old woman watching him from the corner - the one who never slept and who never moved because she was stone from the waist down. Next morning, amid the wailing that engulfed the town, she told what she had seen. The one-eyed people of the sky dressed in their dancing clothes, paddled the child out to mid-heaven in their canoe and pitched him over the side.

He turned round and round to the right as he fell from the sky back to the water. Still in his cradle, he floated on the sea. Then he bumped against something solid. 'Your illustrious grandfather asks you in', said a voice. The Raven saw nothing. He heard the same voice again, and then again, but still he saw nothing but water. Then he peered through the hole in his marten-skin blanket. Beside him was a grebe. 'Your illustrious grandfather asks you in', said the grebe and dived. Level with the waves beside him, the Raven discovered the top of a housepole made of stone. He untied himself from his cradle and climbed down the pole to the lowermost figure. Hala qaattsi ttakkin-gha, a voice said: 'Come inside, my grandson.' Behind the fire, at the rear of the house, was an old man white as a gull. 'I have something to lend you', said the old man. 'I have something to tell you as well. Dii hau dang iiji: I am you.' Slender bluegreen things with wings were moving between the screens at the back of the house. Waa'asing dang iiji, said the old man again: That also is you ...

... Ninmah has a child in her lap. Probably the old man at the bottom of the sea was Xiuchtecuhtli, who had a brazier on his head:

I guess Ninmah had a boat as her headgear because it meant 'land' had been reached - from Eridu 'the path of milk' went upwards again and next station was Harrow (followed by Abyss described similar to Field). Fire feathers on top of the head of the Eridu figure is equally strange as a boat on top of the head of Ninmah - how can there be fire down in the 'deep water' and how can there be a boat up on 'dry land'?

In the Babylonian zodiac Jupiter is located at the end of the 2nd quadrangle below the head of Leo. Old Sun became 'Father Light' and sired the next little 'fire' - the head of the serpent is equally close as that of the lion.

The feather headdresses of Eridu and Bow would not survive past the point where the Milky Way made a sharp bend at bottom. Sun did not continue to where our own year is ending but to the end of the first half of our year. If Mad Dog stood at autumn equinox, then Old Sun could have ended his days at midsummer.

But Ninmah has a little child in front of her and she carries a Sun sign in her canoe hairdo. Once it was popular for the women on Easter Island, I remember, to carry hats formed like boats:

Ninmah was Vela (the Sail) in Argo Navis and a Sail was named Ra in Polynesia: ... The substitution of the sun for the sail, both of which are called ra or raa in Polynesia, is a remarkable feature in Easter Island art ...

... Beyond summer solstice comes the back side of the year. It does not mean, however, that 'sea' is beginning already with Ninmah, we should rather look where the Milky Way is submerging the ecliptic. The ecliptic path of the planets is a straightforward matter, it never curves. In contrast the Milky Way is never straight, it is like a river. With Eridu at the end of the river, i.e. very far down, we should look up in the high mountains in order to find the beginning, the small streams which will grow in size with time.

The season of this downward flow of sweet water was imagined to begin with Aquarius:

The curve of the stream indicates Aquarius is standing on a hill.

Once upon a time Aquarius must have stood at winter solstice, at the beginning of the solar year north of the equator. Maybe an initial quarter of Aquarius later was expanded to reach all the way down to Leo. Or maybe already from the beginning Aquarius stretched all the way to the head of the Lion, beyond Gemini. 'Land' certainly must have arrived when Leo rose heliacally, so much is clear from the theory of correspondences ...