Dedicated to Inshushinak

3200 years old Elamite silver pouring vessel with handle and double spout in the form of two bulls. Found in Kalmakareh Cave in Lorestan province, Iran, currently in a private gallery in Kuwait...

Elamite inscription engraved on the vessel states that the vessel is an offering by the King Shutruk Nakhunte to Inshushinak, the Lord is the protector of his city Susa...

The god Inshushinak is believed to be the Elamite equivalent of the Sumeran/Akkadian god Ea/Enki, the god of fresh water...Enki who is (in) Abzu, the source of water in Tigris and Euphrates...This dude... 

I talked about this in my posts "Problems with Abzu", "Shamash young and old", "When Utu steps up into heaven"

Ea/Enki who was also the god of the annual flood. Flood whose symbol was "Ea's/Enki's boat". 

I talked about this in my posts "Clay boat from Shuruppak", "A person in a little boat", "Feast plaque from Louvre", "Rain and flood", "Enki's little boat"...

The annual flood which was also known as "The Carp flood". Why? Cause during the flood, giant Mesopotamian carp migrate upstream for spawning. 

This is why Ea/Enki was often depicted with streams full of fish swimming towards him, toward Abzu. I talked about this in my post "Goatfish"...

Which is why we find carp (men), Apkallu, as Ea's/Enki's henchmen...

I talked about this in my posts "Apkallu", "Basalt water basin from Assur", "Kassite seal with Apkallu"...

Ok...What the hell any of this has to do with our Elamite silver pouring vessel with spouts in the form of two bulls? Guess when Tigris and Euphrates flood? In Apr/May, Taurus...

Now as you could have seen on the above map, Susa lies east of Tigris, between two rivers, 

Karkheh (Flow chart article)

Daz (Flow chart article)

whose flows also peak in Apr/May, Taurus

In "Enki and the world order" we read:  "...Father (Ea)/Enki...he stood up full of lust like a rampant bull, lifted his penis, ejaculated and filled the Tigris [and Euphrates] with flowing water. He was like a wild cow mooing for its young in the wild grass..." Some scene 🙂

Why "like a wild cow mooing for its young"?  Cause Apr/May, Taurus, the peak of the Bull Enki's ejaculation (annual flood), is an animal calendar marker, not a constellation...

Apr/May, Taurus, Bull (it really should be Calf), the beginning of the calving season of the wild eurasian cattle. 

Talked about it in many of my posts...

And to tie all together: Why Ea/Enki, the god of fresh water and the annual "carp flood" standing on a bull? Cause Tigris and Euphrates and their tributaries, like Karkheh and Daz flood in Apr/May, in Taurus, when big carp swim upstream for spawning...

I talked about this in my post "Adda seal"...

So, I think that this could explain why a ceremonial Elamite "silver [water] pouring vessel" dedicated to the Elamite god Inshushinak who was the equivalent of Ea/Enki, god of water and annual flood, would have "double spout in the form of two bulls"...What do you think?

Here is another, older (3000BC), ceremonial Elamite water pouring vessel with the same symbolism...And the same meaning...I talked about it in my post "Elamite water bull"...

BTW, Do you see that vessel that the bull man is holding? 

Spouted silver bowl decorated with entwined serpents. Southeastern Iran Mid 3rd millennium BC. From Al-Sabah collection. 

I talk about it in my post "Snake water bowl" in which I try to answer the question: Why were water gods in Mesopotamia (Enki) and Elam (Napiriša, Inshushinak) linked to snakes?

To read more about ancient animal and plant calendar markers, start here…Then check my twitter threads I still didn't convert to blog post...I am way way behind...

Animals march three by three

Sumerian limestone bowl fragment with three ibex goats following a lion...3300-3100 BCE, Currently in the Detroit Institute of Arts...

What's all this about?

Well, I think, climate in Mesopotamia and annual lifecycle of the depicted animals...

I am so sorry only a fragment of this bowl has survived. But I could bet that the original bowl had 

3 ibex goats, following 3 lions, following 3 bulls, following 3 leopards...

Why?

Check this post out. It is about a copper bowl from the same period and the same area...And about the climatic year in Sumer and Elam, and local Sumerian/Elamite animal calendar markers for the four seasons...

A Sumerian or Elamite Copper Bowl. Early 3rd Millennium B.C.E., H. 9.2 cm., D. 16.2 cm.

To read more about ancient animal and plant calendar markers, start here…Then check my twitter threads I still didn't convert to blog post...I am way way behind...

A person in a little boat

Proto-Elamite tablet, Iran 3400-3100 BCE...Interestingly, the other side depicts "A person in a little boat" with a giant fish swimming underneath...Pic by Osama Shukir Muhammed Amin.

Soooo what is depicted on this tablet?

Well, this must have been something important, cause there is another tablet with the same scene imprinted on it...Pic by Jacob L. Dahl

First a thought that the "person" is Enki (or his local equivalent), the god of fresh water, and annual flood, in his little boat, the symbol of the annual flood of the rivers in Mesopotamia and Iran. I talked about it in my post "Feast plaque from Louvre"...

This would tie with the giant fish, which would then be a giant Mesopotamian carp, which swims upstream during the annual flood to its spawning grounds in the upper reaches of Tigris and Euphrates and their tributaries...

I talked about this in my post "Apkallu"...

But something was funny about the "person" in the boat. The position of the arms is commonly seen on mother goddesses squeezing their breasts. Like this Elamite one from the 2nd millennium BC from Met Museum...

Also, is this a "pregnant" belly? So could this "person" in the boat be a female? And what is that sticking out of the person's butt (sorry back 🙂)? Is this symbol for grain? This thing

So how does this "grain goddess" fit into the "boat floating on the carp flood"? Well this is the water level chart in Tigris and Euphrates system...The water level peaks in Apr/May...

And this is Mesopotamian grain harvest calendar...

This is Inanna/Ishtar speaking: 

"...Before my lord, Dumuzi,

I poured out plants from my womb.

I placed plants before him,

I poured out plants before him.

I placed grain before him,

I poured out grain before him,

I poured out grain before my womb..."

I talked about this in my article "Mother of grain"...

BTW, every year during the harvest, a man and a woman performed ritual sexual act on a threshing floor, imitating Inanna (earth, womb) and Enki (sweet water, seed) consummating their holy marriage. I talked about this in my article "Sacred marriage on the threshing floor"...

Soooo...Is this Inanna (or some local equivalent) arriving in Enki's little boat floating on the waters of the "carp flood"? I would love to know what is written on this tablet...Do we know how to read Proto-Elamite script?

That's it. To read more about ancient animal and plant calendar markers, start here…then check the rest of the blog posts related to animal calendar markers I still didn't add to this page, and finally check my twitter threads I still didn't convert to blog post...I am 9 months behind now...

Elamite Copper Bowl

I just came across this amazing object. I will give first the official description and interpretation...Then I will give my own...You can decide yourself which is better...

Official description: 

A Sumerian or Elamite Copper Bowl. Early 3rd Millennium B.C.E., H. 9.2 cm., D. 16.2 cm.

"The cup was made from arsenic bronze and was cast in a mold. The relief animals could have been made separately and soldered onto the surface of the cup"

"The decoration is organized in two stacked friezes of animals going [in opposite directions]: the upper register is composed of three bulls separated by lions, while the lower register contains two ibexes alternating with spotted panthers [leopards]"

Official interpretation: 

"Oxen and ibexes were important animals in Mesopotamian economy, while the wild beasts were the favorite targets of hunters..."

"...The size of this piece, its artistic merit, and the selected material as well as the subject indicate that it belonged to a temple treasure or to the display plate of a Mesopotamian dignitary"

That's it...

Bibliography

MÜLLER-KARPE M., Metallgefässe im Iraq I (Von den Anfängen bis zur Akkad-Zeit), Stuttgart, 1993, p. 86 ss. (forme 11, I “Bodenschale”), pp. 235-237, n. 1588, pl. 142.

VAN ESS M. - PEDDE F., Uruk, Kleinfunde II, Mainz on Rhine, 1992, p. 18, n. 109, pl. 19.

Sooooo...What is the meaning of this. The bowl symbolises climatic year in the area of southern Iraq (Sumer), western Iran (Elam), which is divided into hot/dry half (Apr/May - Oct/Nov) and cool/wet half (Oct/Nov -  Apr/May)

How do I know this? Because of the choice of the animals depicted on the bowl (nothing to do with economy or hunting), and because of the way they are grouped and oriented (which is not random at all).

It's all to do with animal calendar markers. Basically, the earliest calendars were based on behavior of animals and their annual lifecycles: mating and birthing, which happen every year at the same time.

So you could say: 

When wild cattle start calving, which is always in Apr/May.

When lions start mating, which is always Jul/Aug. 

When wild goats start mating, which is always in Oct/Nov.

When leopards start mating, which is always in Jan/Feb.

The top animal frieze consists of bulls and lions. 

Bull, animal calendar marker for Apr/May. Beginning of summer. 

Lion, animal calendar marker for Jul/Aug. Beginning of autumn.

Together they mark hot/dry season (Apr/May-Oct/Nov) =  summer (May,Jun,Jul), autumn (Aug,Sep,Oct)

The bottom animal frieze consists of ibexes and leopards. 

Ibex, animal calendar marker for Oct/Nov. Start of winter. 

Leopard, animal calendar marker for Jan/Feb. Start of spring.

Together they mark cool/wet season (Oct/Nov-Apr/May), winter (Nov,Dec,Jan), spring (Feb,Mar,Apr)

The animals in the two friezes walk in opposite directions. To symbolise opposite climatic conditions in the two halves of the climatic year in the area where this bowl was made:

bull, lion = summer, autumn = hot, dry

goat, leopard = winter, spring = cool, wet

So there you have it. Climatic year depicted through animal calendar markers which symbolise 4 seasons, which are grouped into 2 cool/wet half and 2 hot/dry half...

The circular bow and the endless procession of the animals symbolise cyclical nature of annual climate changes...

I wrote another article "Symbols of the seasons" about animal symbols of the seasons before. In it I talked about the symbols of the seasons still found in our zodiac today: 

ram-spring-lamging

bull-summer-calving

lion-autumn-mating

goat-winter-mating 

As you can see, 3 out of 4 animal calendar markers are the same. But it seems that in Neolithic, Bronze and Iron Age Iran, it was leopard which was the symbol of spring. And which together with wild goat marked the cool/wet/fertile half of the year. You can read more about goat-leopard animal calendar markers for winter and spring in my post "A vessel from Tepe Hissar" about this amazing artefact...

Which leads me to believe that this bowl is of southern Iranian, Elamite origin...

Anyway, these are just some of the commonly used animal calendar markers. Many more are found all over Eurasia and North Africa, and basically form base layer of all known religious iconographies...And can be used to interpret most of the ancient artifacts with animal images...

To read more about ancient animal and plant calendar markers, start here…then check the rest of the blog posts related to animal calendar markers I still didn't add to this page, and finally check my twitter threads I still didn't convert to blog post...I am 9 months behind now...

Bowl bibliography: 

MÜLLER-KARPE M., Metallgefässe im Iraq I (Von den Anfängen bis zur Akkad-Zeit), Stuttgart, 1993, p. 86 ss. (forme 11, I “Bodenschale”), pp. 235-237, n. 1588, pl. 142.

VAN ESS M. - PEDDE F., Uruk, Kleinfunde II, Mainz on Rhine, 1992, p. 18, n. 109, pl. 19.

When Utu steps up into heaven

In the Sumerian text "Enki and Ninhursanga" Enki [the god of fresh water and the annual flood] says: "When Utu [the sun god] steps up into heaven, fresh waters shall run out of the ground for you"...

What does this mean?

This makes no sense, right? How can rising of the sun make water run out of the ground? Well it is not the sun's daily elevation, but the sun's annual elevation that this text talks about...

The sun's elevation is the lowest at the start of the solar year, at Winter Solstice. As the solar year progresses, the sun's elevation increases. The sun's elevation is the highest at the Summer solstice, after which it decreases until its minimum at the Winter Solstice...

What does this have to do with water running out of the ground? Well, the elevation of the sun is directly linked to the duration of the day. 

The day is the shortest at the Winter Solstice (lowest elevation) and the longest at the Summer Solstice (highest elevation)...

You would think that the the winter solstice would then be the coldest time of the year, as the day is the shortest. But, because of the way earth-sun system works, the earth continues to cool after winter solstice, even though the days start getting longer...

The coldest time of the year is at the beginning of February, the beginning of spring...After which the earth starts to warm up...

This is Exactly when the water levels of Tigris and Euphrates start to rise. Why? Cause the earth is warming up, and the snow, which covers the mountains to the North and East of Sumer is melting...

The snowmelt starts in Jan/Feb (Aquarius 🙂)...

And the snowmelt runoff peaks in Apr/May (Taurus 🙂)

And it is this snowmelt that is the main contributor to the water flow of Tigris and Euphrates...

And it is the peak snowmelt runoff that causes the peak water flow in Tigris and Euphrates and the annual flood...

I talked about this in my posts "Enki's little boat", "Rain and flood" and many other...

And so, as Utu, The Sun god, climbs higher and higher up the sky, warmer and warmer the earth becomes, more and more snow is melted, and higher and higher the water levels of Tigris and Euphrates become...Symbolically Utu frees Enki from his icy prison...I talked abut this in my post "Shamash young and old"...

And as the water levels of all the rivers in the Tigris and Euphrates catchment area rise, "fresh waters runs out of the ground"...

Just like Father Enki has promised. Enki, "the important one of the great gods" for whom it is said that "there is no one who does not take his skilful advice"... You can find these quotes in Ancient Near Eastern Gods Enki and Ea: Diachronical Analysis of Texts and Images from the Earliest Sources to the Neo-Sumerian Period...

BTW: The water levels in Tigris and Euphrates reach their peaks at the beginning of Summer, in Taurus. Which is why Enki, "the flood of heaven and earth" is also "great bull" who releases his semen into Tigris and Euphrates...

That Iranians used the same symbolic calendar can be seen from this Proto-Elamite silver figurine of a clothed kneeling bull (cow?) which "shows a curious blend of human and animal traits"...holding a spouted [water] vessel...I talked about this in my post "Elamite water bull"...

PS: I just thought of something...You know how originally Sumerian gods lived in Ekur, the holy mountain(s), which later became heaven...The same holy mountain(s) which are the source of Tigris and Euphrates...I talked about this in my post "How grain came to Sumer"...

Did "When Utu steps up into heaven" originally mean "When Utu steps up into holy mountain(s)", just like it is depicted on the seal showing Shamash/Utu liberating Enki/Ea?

Technically it's the same thing, as "Sun stepping up the mountain" means "Sun heating up the higher and higher ranges of the mountains", which correspond with the "Sun's elevation getting higher and higher"...

Interesting...

To read more about ancient animal and plant calendar markers, start here…then check the rest of the blog posts related to animal calendar markers I still didn't add to this page, and finally check my twitter threads I still didn't convert to blog post...I am 9 months behind now...

Sagittarius from Isfahan

In this article I would like to talk about a beautiful manuscript entitled "The Free Man's Companion to the Subtleties of Poems" written by Jajarmi around 1341AD in Isfahan, Iran. Its illustrations hide some ancient animal calendar markers. And ancient gods...

But first this...

This is the symbol of Isfahan. Two of these images decorate the entrance into Isfahan's Grand Bazaar, one of the greatest and most luxurious covered markets in Iran, built in 1620AD...

And they apparently depict Sagittarius...How do we know this is Sagittarius? Well, because inside of the "The Free Man's Companion to the Subtleties of Poems" there is an illustrated poem about the moon visiting the houses of 12 zodiac signs...And this is Sagittarius...

Here are all 12 illustrations. I want to thank @handarziha for alerting me to this beautiful book. BTW @handarziha, I found missing pisces illustration 🙂 and have added it to the start of the first panel where it should be...

The zodiac used is the European zodiac, with constellations: Aries, Taurus, Gemini, Cancer, Leo, Virgo, Libra, Scorpio, Sagittarius, Capricorn, Aquarius, and Pisces...

Why European zodiac? Firstly because all the animal signs mark significant lifecycle events of the depicted animal, in Europe...I talked about it in my post "Zodiac" and linked posts about each sign. Here is the gist:

This totally improbable "coincidence" made me wonder if this is indeed a coincidence...Which led to the discovery of the ancient animal calendar markers, which are found in all Eurasian and North African cultures since Neolithic...And have nothing to do with stars...

Also, the oldest depiction of this type of zodiac circle was found in Croatia, in the Nakovana cave. 

Not surprising at all, if you know what this "circle of little animals" (that's what zodiac means) actually represents...I talked about it in my post "Nakovana"...

More about animal calendar markers found in ancient cultures, start here…then check the rest of the blog posts I still didn't add to this page, and finally check my twitter threads on @serbiaireland I still didn't convert to blog post...I am 7 months behind now...

Anyway, lets get back to the Isfahan zodiac, and start by saying that it is important to know that the manuscript was written in Isfahan. Cause the animal calendar markers found in it describe Isfahan climate, hydrology and ecology...

Isfahan is located at the foothills of the Zagros mountains on a fertile soil along the Zayandehrud River...This is Khaju Bridge over Zayandehrud river in Isfahan, built around 1650, under the reign of Abbas II, the seventh Safavid king (shah) of Iran...

The climatic year in Isfahan is divided into hot dry half (Jun-Oct) and cool wet half (Nov-May)...This means that Zayandehrud River is, a seasonal river, which  depends mostly on winter and spring rainfall and the spring snowmelt...

Over 70% of Zayandehrud river runoff comes from the snow melting on the mountains surrounding its basin, particularly the Zagros range, which starts in February (yes in Aquarius) and finishes in May. 

Snow cover on the Iranian mountains...

The rest of the water flowing down Zayandehrud river comes from rain, which starts falling in Oct/Nov and stops falling in Apr/May, with maxium rainfal in Mar/Apr...

The combination of the snowmelt and rainfall results in sudden increase of the Zayandehrud river water level starting in Mar/Apr...In Aries...The also the rainiest time of the year in Isfahan...

Monthly flow chart for the Zayandehrud River, from the paper "An overview of the hydrology of the Zayandeh Rud Basin" 

And here we come to the first animal calendar marker hidden on the first page of the Isfahan Zodiac...Aries ram, depicted as a wild sheep, mouflon, with blue (water like) horns, lying in water...Describing exactly what is happening in Isfahan in Mar/Apr...In Aries...

I don't know Persian, so can't tell what the text this pic illustrates actually says. It would be funny if it said: and when the moon comes to the house of Aries, the rain will pour out of the sky and the river will start rising...Anyone who can read the text?

Anyway cool wet half of the year then abruptly ends in May, when the hot dry half of the year starts...In Taurus...Which is depicted as a zebu bull...Interesting, considering that zebu cattle is predominant cattle breed in India, not Iran...Were they once more common in Iran too?

We can skip through Gemini, Cancer. Nothing really interesting there. But Leo...Leo is depicted as a really cool mean looking lioness...

You know how Leo marks the beginning of the mating season of the Eurasian lions?

And you know how there is this girl, Inanna/Ishtar, who loves standing on lions? 

Why does she do this?

Well...standing on a lion means "In Leo"...

And you know how everyone thinks that Inanna/Ishtar "The queen of heaven", "The morning star" is Venus...Well, when this "mythology" was developed, Sirius rose before the sun, in Leo (Jul/Aug), pretending to be "the morning star"...I talked about this in my post "Ninshubur"...

In "A hymn to Inana as Ninegala" we can read "Inana, great light, lioness of heaven..." Why? 

Well, this, combined with Inanna's obsession with standing on lions only makes sense if she is Sirius, rising with the sun in Leo...

Anyway, you know how some archaeologists say that Inanna's earliest depiction was as a lioness? Does this Elamite figurine made in Iran depict Inanna as lioness...

And is the choice of using lioness instead of lion as Leo in the Isfahan zodiac just a random artistic freedom?

Anyway, we pass Leo and we arrive to Virgo to find out that she is gone shopping and instead of her we see a man harvesting grain...

Now if I have ever seen a blatantly obvious calendar marker based on annual lifecycle of plants this is one...

Grains are always sown and always harvested at the same time of the year...And Virgo illustration says: In Aug/Sep we harvest grain...So what grain is harvested in Aug/Sep?

The grain depicted on the Virgo illustration looks like wheat...So I first looked at wheat, which is today the main grain crop in Iran. But wheat grown in Iran is mostly winter wheat, which is planted in Oct/Nov and harvested in May/Jun...

Then I found in this book "The Middle East (Routledge Revivals): A Physical, Social and Regional Geography" that in high mountain valleys, like in Zagros mountains, people grow spring wheats, which are sown in Mar/Apr and harvested in Jul/Aug...

Hmmm...To early for Virgo...And from what I could find, the wheats grown in Isfahan region is all winter wheat...

But there is another grain crop grown in Isfahan, along the Zayandehrud river...Rice...And in Iran, rice is planted in Apr/May and harvested in Aug/Sep...Virgo...

As I said, I don't know Persian, so I don't know what the text illustrated by this image actually says. But it would be cool if it said: In Virgo we harvest rice...Anyone who can read the text?

So we'll skip pass Libra and will look at Scorpio (Oct/Nov)...

The sign that marks the time of the year when scorpions go to hibernation, because the temperature gets too low...This has been used as an animal calendar marker since Neolithic...

For instance in Göbekli Tepe...I wrote about it in my post "Pillar 43"...

And in Mesopotamia...I wrote about it in my post "Queen Puabi's cylinder seal"...

And in Iran...I wrote about it in my post "Khafajeh vase"...

Once we pass Scorpio, we get to Sagittarius (Nov/Dec)...So we are back where we started...At first sight, a very strange symbol for Sagittarius indeed: An archer killing a dragon...

But if we know that this illustration is made in Isfahan, and we know the Isfahan climate, then this depiction of Sagittarius suddenly makes a lot of sense...

Look at the Isfahan climate chart for again. The year is divided into hot, dry season (May-Oct), and cool, wet season (Nov-Apr). The hot, dry season, the time of droughts, symbolised all over Eurasia by fire breathing dragons, ends in Sagittarius (Nov/Dec). Archer kills dragon...

Isfahan market gate depiction of Sagitarius makes the meaning of this symbol even clearer. There, the body of the Sagitarius is the body of a lion...

Remember that the earliest depictions of dragons found in Mesopotamia had bodies of lions and heads of snakes...I talked about it in my post "Seven headed dragon"...

Snake is the symbol of sun's heat...The only true solar animal. Snakes are in our world when sun is in our world (day and hot part of the year) and in the underworld when sun is in the underworld (night and cold part of the year). 

Sun god with snakes from Bactria. I talked about it in my post "Nude winged hero dominating snakes"...

Lion is the symbol of the hottest part of the year in northern hemisphere, Jul/Aug...The time of the year ruled by Nergal, the destructive sun, who was depicted as a lion, winged lion, lion dragon...I talked about this in my post "Winged superhuman hero"...

Lion is also the symbol of autumn (Aug/Sep/Oct), cause the mating season of Eurasian lions spans autumn...I talked about this in my post "Lion killing bull under palm tree" about this seals telling people when to harvest date: when lion (autumn) kills (ends) bull (summer)...

Lion is also the symbol of the whole hot dry half of the year, Apr/May - Oct/Nov...In my post "Sacred hunt" I talk about ritual lion hunts performed by Assyrian kings. In which they imitated the rain god Ninurta, The Archer who used rainbow as his bow, in the act of ending (killing) the hot dry half of the year, symbolised by a lion...In the act of saving the world, protecting the order from chaos...

And in Isfahan, the (God of) rain arrives in Nov/Dec, in Sagittarius...At the end (tail) of the lion dragon...And kills it... 

As I said, I don't speak Persian, so I don't know what the text illustrated by this image actually says. Anyone who can read the text?

What follows is Capricorn, depicted as a Ibex goat...In European zodiac it marks the mating season of Apline Ibex goats which spans Dec/Jan...However Iranian Bezoar Ibex goats start mating in Oct/Nov, announcing the arrival of the first rains...

This is the old Iranian Goat of Rain...The most depicted animal in Iran...And at one time most sacred...I talked about it this post "Goat petroglyphs from Iran"...

Scorpion, ibex and archer calendar markers once marked the same time of the year, Oct/Nov, the beginning of the cool wet half of the year in Mesopotamia and Iran...

But that didn't really fit the climate and animal behaviour in Europe, hence the change in their positions on zodiac circle...They are all still next to one another...

And so...We finally arrive to Aquarius...Have a look at the depiction of Aquarius? What is this triangular brick thingy?

Now have a look at this. "When Utu/Shamash steps up into heaven, fresh waters shall run out of the ground for you..." from "Enki and Ninhursanga"...The sun god Utu/Shamash climbing the mountains to free Enki/Ea, god of fresh water...I talked about it in my post "Shamash young and old"...

What does it mean? Well, when sun's elevation gets high enough, the snow on the mountains will start melting, and the rivers and wells will start filling up again..And in Isfahan that is in...Jan/Feb...In Aquarius...

Again, I don't speak Persian, so I have no idea what the text illustrated by this image says...But it would be cool if it said: it's getting warmer (see, the guy has no top on him), the water levels in our wells and rivers are rising...

And here we come to the end of the analysis of the poem about moon visiting zodiac houses, from the beautiful manuscript entitled "The Free Man's Companion to the Subtleties of Poems"...

Thanks again to @handarziha for making me do something completely different from what I have planned to be doing for last 2 days...Hope it was worth it...🙂