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Figure 5.20: Enlarged fragment of the Thebes zodiac from Figure
2.1. There are no constellations signs and the ecliptic is
divided into 36 parts.
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garding their astronomical contents and their accuracy can
be fully trusted. Since this is not an attitude shared by specialists
in Egyptian astronomy and zodiacs, many researchers
easily assume that the astronomical contents of the Egyptian
zodiacs is not very precise and could be corrupted because of
artistic or other reasons. We would like to use our research
against this attitude that we consider to be wrong.
5.3 Male and Female Figures
In order to understand how it is possible to distinguish male
and female figures on Egyptian zodiacs, even in the case the
quality of a picture is very low, we need to look first at some
examples. On Figure 5.24 we reproduce a collection of Egyptian
symbols from [7]. We claim that most of symbols on Figure
5.24 equipped with walking sticks, represent some planets
which can be found on Egyptian zodiacs.
Figure 5.23: Painting of a dead person and a wooden sarcophagus.
(Taken from [116], pp. 152 and 161)
Let us discuss symbols on Figure 5.24. They show important
features of Egyptian symbolism. For example, we can
notice that the length of a step for female figures is much
shorter than such length for male figures. Therefore, it is possible
to easily distinguish on Egyptian zodiacs which figures