Hyades, Pleiades and the Moon (photograph by SMH)

^mulKA.AN.NA, The Heavenly Mouth, is a Mesopotamian name for the star cluster of the Hyades. It is well possible that the later asterism of the "Golden Gate of the Heavens" as a term for pathway between the Hyades and the Pleiades is a transformation of this old term.

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Hyades (photograph) and The Jaw of the Bull from a claytablet (CC BY SMH 2024).

Kurtik with Hilder, Hoffmann, Horowitz, Kim

Lit. "Heavenly Mouth"; the reading adopted in [G. 206] for the name of the constellation in the Astrolabe B menology (parallel to the Akkadian Is lê "Bull's Jaw"); an alternative reading and apparently the only correct one is ^mulGU₃.AN.NA, cf.  [Horowitz 2014, 34:26].

• see (Kurtik g33) ^mulGU₄.AN.NA, The Heavenly Bull
• see (Kurtik i15) ^{mul / d}is lê, The Jaw of the Bull

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References

• Kurtik's references