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On Figure 7.34, we present the final decoding of the Big
Esna zodiac, for which the above solution was obtained. Moreover,
it turned out that the planets in main horoscope on the
Big Esna zodiac were located as follows:
The Sun — the circle in Aries. During the days March 31
— April 3, 1394, indicated in the final solution,, the Sun was
crossing the boundary between Aries and Taurus and entering
Taurus.
The Moon — the circle with a crescent on the back of
Taurus. On the days of our solution, the Moon was moving in
Aries and Taurus, but in Aries it was invisible. Moreover, on
April 3, 1394, the New Moon reappeared in Taurus, right in
Pleiades star cluster. In the medieval astronomy the Pleiades
were given special consideration because of their distinctive
appearance on the night sky. According to the results obtained
by using the program Turbo-Sky, the Moon was not
visible on the sky from March 31 till the evening of April
3, when a tiny crescent of the New Moon appeared in the
Pleiades inside the Taurus constellation (see Figure 7.35).
On April 3, 1394 — the last day of the solution, Moon
reappeared in Taurus in a shape of a tiny crescent.
Figure 7.35: Planets in the proximity of the Sun on March 31
— April 3, 1394 A.D. The area under the horizon is shaded.
The dotted lines indicate the trajectory of the planets during
these dates.
Let us now discuss the other planets in our solution.
Saturn in our solution was located exactly on the boundary
between Virgo and Libra, which is the same location as
the principal figure of Saturn on the main horoscope of the
Big zodiac. Notice that the male figure of a traveler with a
crescent on his head and holding a planetary walking stick,
which represents Saturn, is placed precisely in between the
symbols of Virgo and Libra (see Figure 7.33).
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Next, Jupiter, Mercury, Mars and Venus were gathered in
Pisces, which again is exactly the same location as it was indicated
on the Big zodiac. Furthermore, they all appeared very
close one to another — the maximal distance between them
was not larger than 10 o , while the distances between Venus,
Mars and Mercury were barely 2 o –3 o . The configuration of
these four planets, on the days specified in our solution, is
shown on Figure 7.35.
In addition, before the dawn on March 31, 1394, Jupiter
raised in Cairo, when the Sun was submerged 7 o under the
horizon (in Luxor it was 8 o ), and it was the brightness “star”
at that time — its brightness was M = −1.5, which was the
same as the brightness of Sirius. Consequently, Jupiter was
visible before the dawn and since, on the days preceeding
March 31, the submersion of the Sun under the horizon was
smaller than 7 o , this was the first day of its visibility 36 (see
subsection 6.7.3 for more information about the visibility of
planets). On the last day of our solution — April 3, 1394,
when Jupiter was rising, in Cairo the Sun was submerged
8.5 o under the horizon and in Luxor 10 o . That means, Jupiter
was even better visible, but still for a short time only. Therefore,
this could provide us an explanation for the presence
the second figure of Jupiter — a male planetary figure with
a disk over his head. It is the last figure in the procession of
Jupiter (see the color annotated Big zodiac on Figure 7.33
and Figure 7.34). The presence of the disk signifies the closeness
of Jupiter to the Sun — it’s like the Sun was “sitting” on
Jupiter’s “head” and that’s exactly what is indicated by our
solution. But, there is something else special about this figure
— the representations of Jupiter on the Denderah zodiacs
are similar to this figure. On the Round Denderah zodiac (see
Figure 5.37), there is a hieroglyph over the head of Jupiter
consisting of two horns, directed upward, with a small disk
in-between, and on the Long Denderah zodiac, Jupiter has
horizontal horns and there is also a small disk in-between.
Let us recall that at the preliminary stage, we also considered
another variant of decoding, in which the figure leading
this procession was Mars. By the way, on the Big Esna zodiac,
the size of the disk on the head of this figure is much
larger than those on the Denderah zodiacs, what indeed could
signalize the Jupiter closeness to the Sun.
In our solution, when moving away from the Sun, Jupiter
was the first planet, then we encounter Venus, followed by
Mars and next Mercury (see Figure 7.35). However, few days
earlier Venus was still behind Mars and Mercury, till March
25, when Venus got ahead of these two planets. Possibly, it
could give an explanation to the arrangement of the Big zodiac,
where the figure of Mars is enclosed between two sitting
“doubles” of Venus — one of them larger (of the same size
as “doubles” of the other planets) and another smaller (see
Figure 7.35). These two “doubles” in some sense mark the
trajectory of Venus in proximity of Mars. The smaller “double”
possibly indicates the position of Venus in the past, when
it was on the other side of Mars, while the bigger one shows
the correct position of Venus with respect to the other plan-
36 See [27], p. 16.