mysteries of egyptian zodiacs - HiddenMysteries Information Central

82 5 Symbolism on Egyptian Zodiacs and New Complete Decoding
Figure 5.14: Representations of Scorpio on different Egyptian
zodiacs and in the European astronomy.
part man, aiming an arrow at Scorpio. Notice, that most of
the centaurs shown on Figure 5.15 have wings and even the
Dürer’s centaur has also something floating above its back
resembling wings.
As we already mentioned it in Chapter 4, during the last
2000 years the winter solstice takes place in Sagittarius, therefore
the figure of Sagittarius on Egyptian zodiacs is usually
accompanied by additional symbols. Practically all the centaurs
on the Egyptian zodiacs have double-faced heads —
one face of a human and another one of a lion. Particularly
it is clearly visible on the zodiacs DL, EB and EV (see Figure
5.15). Let us point out that double face on Egyptian zodiacs
is a feature associated with Mercury and lion’s head
with Venus, which are two planets always accompanying the
Sun. Another attribute that can be recognized on most of the
Egyptian zodiacs shown in Figure 5.15, which indicates that
some “displaced” symbols are present here, is the boat under
Sagittarius. On Athribis zodiacs there is also a star inside the
boat, which could suggest that we are dealing here with “displaced”
planets (remember that according to the ancient astronomy
planets were considered as “moving stars”). There is
also another detail pointing to the Sun. Namely, some of centaurs
wear a crown with a small circle on its top. All together,
these symbols convey a message that the Sun, Mercury and
Figure 5.15: Representations of Sagittarius on different Egyptian
zodiacs and in the European astronomy.
Venus are shown in this separated from the main horoscope
position, in order to indicate their presence at proximity of
the winter solstice point.
5.1.10 Capricorn
Now, we proceed with the next constellation of Capricorn. On
Figure 5.16 we show the representations of Capricorn on all
the studied here Egyptian zodiacs, together with the D¨rer’s
drawing of Capricorn. The symbol of Capricorn, which is represented
by a fantastic animal — a goat with a fishtail, can
be easily recognized on the Egyptian zodiacs. We would like
to point out a strange male figure standing on Capricorn on
the Big Esna zodiac (see Figure 5.17).
The fact that this man is standing on Capricorn means
that it is “displaced” and the presence of the small summer
solstice attributes in his hands (see Figures 4.1, 4.2 and 4.3)
probably indicates that Sun’s trajectory begins to rise here
to the summer solstice. In other words, the Sun which just
passed in Sagittarius its lowest point is now in Capricorn and
it begins its cycle in the direction to the highest position, i.e.
the summer solstice. So, there is no ground for speculating
that this figure stands for a planet in a partial horoscope
(notice that it could not belong to the main horoscope because