mysteries of egyptian zodiacs - HiddenMysteries Information Central

The Egyptian zodiacs contained specific ancient symbols
to illustrate astronomical objects, which today can be analyzed
in order to answer the most intriguing question: When
exactly did the ancient Egyptian live and when were
the famous ancient Egyptian temples constructed? In
other words, the dating of the horoscopes shown on ancient
Egyptian zodiacs provides a suitable, according to the present
scientific standards, method for establishing milestone dates
for the chronology of the Ancient Egypt. We can reveal that
the analysis of all the ancient Egyptian zodiacs leads only
to medieval dates with the majority of them located after
the twelve century and even later. These results match very
well with the New Chronology (see [103],[105],[106],[117]), according
to which the most ancient events of the documented
history took place not earlier than in the eleventh century
A.D. (see 1.9).
We would like to observe that commemoration of certain
dates by horoscopes was very widespread in the ancient
Egypt. Even today, imitations of ancient horoscopes are popular
in Egypt where tourists can find them without trouble,
among other “ancient” Egyptian artifacts, in almost every
souvenir store. One of these papyrus drawings, that was purchased
in year 2000 in Luksor is illustrated on Figure 2.1.
Figure 2.1: Modern Egyptian papyrus with a picture of an old
zodiac.
In many such stores, a tourist can even order his or her
“ancient” Egyptian zodiac with a horoscope to be drawn on
a papyrus. Nowadays there is no need to observe the locations
of the planets but it is sufficient to have a computer
and an astronomical software that can be easily downloaded
from the Internet, and the whole task of making an “ancient”
Egyptian zodiac is reduced to arranging appropriately into it
the “ancient” Egyptian symbols. Therefore, any of would-be
ancient Egyptian zodiacs should be studied with great caution
because it could be a forgery or simply a zodiac that was
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made in eighteenth or nineteenth century when this ancient
tradition was still alive in Egypt. It will be explained later,
with more details, that the zodiacs in Egypt were connected
to burial rituals. These burial traditions could be cultivated
by Egyptians much longer than usually assumed. Moreover,
many fake horoscopes could also be fabricated in nineteenth
century when the ancient Egypt became fashionable among
reach Europeans. Therefore, when working on dating of an
ancient horoscope, we should be prepared for a possibility
that the obtained date could be much later than expected.
For example, it is quite possible that the date of an “ancient”
Egyptian zodiac could indicate the nineteenth century
even if it was discovered in a very “ancient Egyptian tomb.”
There is a problem that the present dating methods of archaeological
findings from ancient Egypt are very imprecise,
erroneous, and often leading to the wrong conclusions. For
example, using these methods a tomb dated as a very ancient
burial place could turn out, as it sometimes really happens,
to be constructed in the nineteenth century.
Very often, the fact that an Egyptian picture represents a
zodiac may not be evident at the first glance. However, there
are some definite features which can be used to recognize
easily such pictures as zodiacs. For example, on almost every
Egyptian zodiac there is a dominating female figure with
raised hands, and her body usually shaped in form of an arc
symbolizing the sky. This figure is commonly recognized as
the “Egyptian goddess Nut” (see Figure 2.2). One can easily
identify this symbol on Figure 2.1.
Figure 2.2: “Ancient Egyptian goddess
Nut.” (Taken from [7], p.10)
Let us present several
examples of Egyptian
zodiacs. All these
zodiacs will be discussed
in details later
in this book, but for
now we would like only
to give an idea about
possible different appearances
of Egyptian
zodiacs. On Figure 2.3
we show an ancient
Egyptian zodiac that
was found in the Kings
Valley near Thebes.
This picture was made
during the Egyptian
expedition of Napoleon and published in the Napoleonic edition
of the album La Description de l’Egypte.
On Figure 1.4 we show a part of the low relief depicting a
zodiac which was found on the ceiling in an ancient Egyptian
temple in Denderah. It is big relief of dimensions 2.55 × 2.53
meters, that is considered to be the most famous Egyptian
zodiac. It is called “Round Denderah Zodiac” (because of it’s
round form) in order to distinguish it from the “Long” or
“Rectangular Denderah Zodiac” which was discovered in the
same temple in Denderah. The Round Denderah zodiac was