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Figure 4.2: Fragment of the Long Denderah Zodiac. Marked
in blue: “Man with Raised Hand”, “Bull laying down on a
boat” and “Pillar”
(1) A pillar, sometimes with a bird on the top of it, or in between
two poles bending away from each other (see Figures
4.1, 4.2 and 4.3);
(2) A man with a raised hand (see Figures 4.4 and 4.5). If
that figure is shown holding in his other hand a walking
stick, which is a planetary symbol, than necessarily he is
standing on a boat.
Figure 4.3: Fragment of the Big Esna Zodiac. Marked in blue:
“Pillar” with two bended poles
(3) A laying bull, sometimes with a women standing behind
and shooting an arrow over the bull (see Figure 4.1, 4.2,
4.4 and 4.5). On some zodiacs, the figures of a bull and a
woman are shown on the same or separate boats. On the
Round zodiac only the bull is laying down on a boat.
Notice on Figure 4.4, that the imaginary line on which
the “Man with the Raised Hand” is standing passes exactly
through the Gemini sign and we can think about it as an
indication that he stands in Gemini.
Notice on Figure 4.5, that the Arrow is “moving” above
the head of the Laying Bull and it seems that it comes from
the Woman standing behind the Bull. This group shows lots
of similarities with the Round zodiac (see Figure 4.1).
We would like to point out that the listed above symbols
are located on Egyptian zodiacs only in close proximity to
Gemini, and never appear in other parts of these zodiacs.
Clearly, there is some reason that connects this group with
Gemini or something inside it. A natural question arises what
makes Gemini so special among other constellations that this
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Figure 4.4: Fragment of the Athribis Zodiac. Marked in blue:
a “Man with a Raised Hand” and a “Bull Laying down” on a
boat.
Figure 4.5: Fragment of the Small Esna Zodiac. Marked in
blue: a “Man with Raised Hand”, a “Bull Laying” down on a
boat, a “Woman” and an “Arrow”.
group of symbols is always surrounding it? Let us try to look
for some indication that may be related to the role of these
symbols. First of all, the character of these symbols (bird sitting
on a top of a pillar, man with a raised hand pointing up,
or a pillar pointing up with two bended pillars on its sides)
may indicate an idea of something “high,” for example the
highest point or a kind of a local maximum of something.
But this is already a good lead to explain why these symbols
always appear near Gemini. The summer solstice, the northernmost
point reached by the Sun (i.e. which is the highest
point for an observer in the Northern Hemisphere) in its annual
apparent journey among the stars, lies in Gemini. The
term solstice also is used in reference to either of the two
points of the greatest deviation of the ecliptic (the Sun’s ap-