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188 7 The Dates Shown on the Monumental Zodiacs in the Denderah and Esna Temples<br />

Figure 7.34: The final variant <strong>of</strong> decoding for the main horoscope on the Big Esna zodiac, which resulted in a complete<br />

solution. We encircled the groups <strong>of</strong> figures related to the planetary symbols (marked in yellow) on the main horoscope.<br />

ets for the days shown on the main horoscope (see the color<br />

annotated Big zodiac on Figure 7.33, where all the “doubles”<br />

are marked in green).<br />

Mars and Mercury on March 31 – April 3, 1394, were<br />

located almost at the same latitude, i.e. nearly at the same<br />

place on the ecliptic. In this case, on the zodiac, these two<br />

planets could be displayed in any order. The planets on the<br />

Big zodiac are shown in the following order: Jupiter, Venus,<br />

Mars, Mercury (see Figure 7.34).<br />

At the days indicated by the solution, at the time Venus,<br />

Mars and Mercury were rising, the Sun was submerged behind<br />

the horizon at least 14 o (SUH= 14 o ), what practically was a<br />

complete darkness. All these planets were well visible before<br />

the dawn during the days <strong>of</strong> our solution, as well as in earlier<br />

days.<br />

Moreover, one week earlier than the dates indicated by<br />

the main horoscope, on March 25, 1394, all three planets —<br />

Venus, Mars and Mercury met at one point on the sky. At<br />

that moment the distance from Mercury to Mars, and from<br />

Mercury to Venus was only 3 minutes <strong>of</strong> latitude and the<br />

brightness <strong>of</strong> Venus was M = −3.5, the brightness <strong>of</strong> Mercury<br />

was M = +0.7, and <strong>of</strong> Mars was M = +1.3. With such large<br />

values <strong>of</strong> brightness, especially the brightness <strong>of</strong> Venus, and<br />

with such small distances separating these planets, they all<br />

appeared to an Earth based observer watching the sky by<br />

naked eye, as an unusually bright spot. Without doubt, it<br />

Figure 7.36: The close meeting <strong>of</strong> Mercury (M = +0.7), Mars<br />

(M = +1.3) and Venus (M = −3.6), before the dawn in the<br />

morning on March 25, 1394 A.D. in Cairo. (The computations<br />

were obtain using the program Turbo-Sky)<br />

was an impressive astronomical event. The submersion <strong>of</strong> the<br />

Sun under the horizon at the moment <strong>of</strong> rising this “triple<br />

star” was about 14 o , so it was still the night. On Figure 7.36,<br />

we show the configuration <strong>of</strong> the Sun, Mercury, Mars and<br />

Venus, on March 25, 1394, before the dawn in Cairo. At that<br />

time the Sun was submerged 10 o under the horizon.<br />

Let us point out, that the Big Esna horoscope was compiled<br />

based on the planetary locations after the occurrence <strong>of</strong>

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