This makes sense thank you. The French translation uses "schedule" - calendar. But urgency / emergency tells much about the meaning of the word (not even sure that this is what C meant!)
I am not sure of the source of the text you mentioned.
I invented it, so as to show you that in the Indian texts, you may be able to find out "a guy" (fictional example!) definitely "popping up out of nowhere". You would have to just read texts, where there are fish-people, and see if their apparition is not a bit too exaggerated / too odd / strange / etc.
You know: let's look at the Odyssey, there are a lot of those kind of things. "And there, as Odysseus approached the mound, he figured out that a nymph was sitting there, and etc etc". This kind of thing. A literary process portraying a character popping out of nowhere.
Ramayan has LOT more shape shifting phenomenon than Mahabharat.
This makes the gathering of data complicated, if you end up with tons of fish-people.
Probably, I will have to do it later for few reasons. There are SO many layers of interpretations made by so many people over long time, it is time consuming. The main point I am trying to say if some body wrote it , doesn't mean it is correct. I prefer to map it against comet angle.
Seeing you digging your way into this whole Indian thing, I can only encourage you to listen to yourself, do your best and explore the avenues that you believe are worth exploring.
My line of thinking is rather simple. Some body wrote it means , there is a motivation and masses bought it means they saw some thing, resonated with it, took it forward with patronage. Sky is easy fit for it all.
Let me be a devil's advocate: yes, Vishnu, as you explain it, is multiple, important, very "various", immensely strange, very odd - and "it's a fish-god"!
If I had to bet money on the fact that Vishnu is a fish-god, according to what the C's said: I wouldn't.
I would say: "yeah it looks like, and there is a lot around this". "But I am not sure - I cannot be sure, this requires deeper digging".
You are right, in the sense that "somebody wrote it". There is a motivation, and "Vishnu" has been conditioning thousands and billions of people.
But with this consideration, what you got is:
- Vishnu had a big influence
- "Vishnu-fish god"
- C's speak of fish-gods
Well... It's close... Very close... "All indicates that this is it".
But, technically, according to the rules of logic, I would see that one cannot "make the link", with it.
It's looks very obvious, and to you it's even like "the nose on the face", etc. I would suggest than to keep a buffer here, as a matter of strategy. If your assessment is correct, pieces of the puzzle will naturally fall into their places, according to your idea.
Because if that's a "all indicates that this is it", you must watch out.
Please let us know the source of the text or context.
I invented it again! Fictional example.
In a text, where a lizard would come by, temporarily, there may be a hint, in the text, of
"a hurry to leave". I suggest that the writings could be mentioning a fish-person, saying: "...now that I have fulfilled my work, I need to go to other horizons..."
You see? Cannot stay too long, because of the density mismatch etc etc
If the case, how would this be translating? It could be that if you find a fish-god, a very slight mention of "me-need-to-go" could be present..
Good luck in your work, you seem to have many different leads to explore and that things are starting to make sense.

