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Biot pinpointed the sky drawn on the ceiling of Dendera at precisely 700
BCE at midnight on summer solstice.

the Jackal, Ursa Minor, containing Polaris, the Thigh is Ursa Major,
containing Dubhe, and the upright Hippo is Draco, containing Thuban,

the Cow with the star between her horns is Canis Major, containing Sirius,
and the striding man is Orion, containing Betelgeuse and Rigel, two first
magnitude stars.
 
Sun and Mercury were in Leo (opposite sides of Regulus, )
The Moon in Capricorn,
Venus in Virgo 
Mars in Gemini
Jupiter in Aquarius 
Saturn in Libra.

-- Julie Gillentine "The Zodiac of Dendera" (Atlantis Rising Magazine #30,
2001)

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JOANNE CONMAN "THE ROUND ZODIAC CEILING OF THE TEMPLE OF HATHOR AT
DENDERAH" (2002)

Construction began on the
temple of Hathor circa 125 BCE and was finished circa 60 CE. (The
Denderah circular zodiac is dated circa 36 BCE or 30 BCE. It is the
oldest known representation of the zodiac.)

on the multicolored chart:

at the 6:00 o'clock position, is the god Horus in his form as a hawk
wearing the double crown, known as Horus-who-is-on-his-pillar. He is
directly under the twins of Gemini.

recumbent cow on a barge with a star between her horns. This figure
represents the star Sirius.

Jupiter: 
Directly above her, placed between the Gemini Twins and Cancer the Crab,
is the planet Jupiter, shown as a falcon-headed god holding a /wAs/
scepter. 

Behind the Sirius cow is the figure of a young woman with a bow and
arrow. She is the goddess Satet 

Behind Satet is her mother, a woman seated in a chair holding two water
jars.

Just above these two goddesses is Leo the lion, who stands on a serpent.
There is a woman holding Leo's tail followed by a small falcon, and a
small seated figure is positioned just above Leo. The woman holding
Leo's tail may be a pun, 

Beneath the woman who holds Leo's tail is a larger figure of a seated
woman holding a child in her hand. She is connected with Asyut by
Daressy. Brugsch suggested that she is the goddess Isis with the infant
Horus.

The next figure is a bull-headed human holding a hoe. This figure is
accepted as the star Arcturus.

Positioned above and between Arcturus and the seated woman with her
child is Virgo, holding an ear of grain.

Mercury:
Above Virgo (and slightly ahead of her) is the planet Mercury, shown as
a human-headed god, holding a /wAs/ scepter, a star over his head. It is
called Sebeg, a name that has not been translated.

Saturn:
Behind Virgo, above Arcturus, and touching the scales of Libra is the
planet Saturn, shown as a bull-headed god holding a /wAs/ scepter. It is
called Hor-ka meaning "Horus-bull."

Above the scales of Libra, Horus the Child (Harpokrates) is shown in a
disk. 

LOrd of Decans:
Directly behind her is the scorpion representing Scorpio. Just above the
Scorpion is a falcon-headed figure seated on a boat. Above his head is a
sun disk and uraeus, and he holds a /wAs/ scepter. I believe this figure
represents the god Nehebkau, who was the lord of the decans.

Following the man and goose is the goat-fish of Capricorn.

Mars:
Directly above Capricorn is the planet Mars, shown as a falcon-headed
god, holding a /wAs/ scepter, a star over his head. It is called
Hor-desher meaning "Horus the Red."

Behind these two, a man wearing the white crown of Upper Egypt is
pouring water out of two jars. This is Aquarius.

Venus:
The figure behind Aquarius is the planet Venus, shown as a double-headed
god holding a /wAs/ scepter. The front head is a falcon wearing the
white crown of Upper Egypt and the rear head is a woman wearing the red
crown of Lower Egypt. It is called Pa-netjer-Dua meaning "The Morning
Star."

Moon?:
Above the upper fish is a Udjat Eye in a disk. The Eye represents many
things in ancient Egypt, one of them being the full moon. Éric Aubourg
believes the Eye on this ceiling represents an eclipse that dates the
temple's construction to the summer of 51 BCE, in July or August.^22
<#ftn22> 

He believes the planets' positions on the ceiling mark the
stations of each planet for the year the temple was built. This is
unlikely since the planets are all shown in their exaltations or
hypsomata, and the hypsomata are so well documented, so old, and (in my
view) so very Egyptian.

Sun, Moon:
The figure standing directly behind the two fish of Pisces, near the
junction of their cords, is a lion-headed god. In Egypt, the sun was
connected with lions as far back as the pre-dynastic times. This
figure's placement is directly beneath Aries the Ram, the zodiac sign of
the sun's exaltation or hypsoma. Since the planets are all shown in
their signs of exaltation on this ceiling, it is likely that this figure
represents the sun in its sign of exaltation. It is followed by the
figure of a human-headed god, also carrying a /wAs/ scepter. The
human-headed figure is positioned slightly ahead of Taurus, the sign of
the moon's exaltation.

After Taurus comes a striding man wearing the white crown of Upper Egypt
and holding a /wAs/ scepter. He is the constellation Orion.

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