Auriga

    On the Denderah Zodiac at the end of the tail of Taurus, Auriga is seen as a male figure with a crown of either two plumes or double crown.    Some call it the shepherd, who carries in his left hand a short scepter, the top with a goat head with horns and the bottom with a cross.
    Since Auriga is seen as a netjeru in human form, therefore it represents a spiritual understanding.
    Some claim that Auriga is a Hebrew word meaning the shepherd.

    With the Egyptians the cross was a sign of life.

    As mentioned on "http://home.main.rr.com/ imyunnut/Den.Round.html" by Joanne Conman, "The male figure following the baboon and gazelle (Triangulum) and above Taurus is holding something unidentifiable.    He is thought to be identical to the man who holds a serpent in the square zodiac (located above Decan 31, which is Ophiuchus standing in front of Auriga).    Based on his positions in both zodiacs, his holding of a serpent in the square zodiac, and his holding of what may be a bull's head in the round zodiac, this figure may represent the star Aldebaran."

    On the Grand Temple image below, these first two deities are between Ophiuchus (in Scorpius) and Gemini-Taurus and located above Decan 32.    The figure to the right holding a staff may be Auriga.

    On ESNE Plate 79 as seen above the figure to the right is a male figure (probably Auriga) holding a staff with a small Bull-like animal, and this sequences between what may be Gemini and Taurus.

    In the "Gospel of the Stars," by Joseph Seiss, on page 109 he claims "In the Zodiac of Denderah, Auriga holds a scepter, the upper part of which shows the head of the Lamb, and lower part a figure of a cross."

    In "The Witness of the Stars," by E.W. Bullinger, page 135-136 "In the Zodiac of Denderah the same truth was revealed more than 4,000 years ago, but the Man (Auriga), instead of carrying the sheep, is carrying a scepter, and is called Trun, which means scepter or power.    But this is a strange scepter, for at the top it has the head of a goat, and at the bottom, below the hand that holds it, it ends in a cross!"

    Some believe this is seen in Malachi 4:1-3 and Psalm 37:38-40.

    From www.siloam.net/denderah it states that Auriga is entitled as the "Light of Amun."

    In "The Dawn of Astronomy" a study of the temple-worship and mythology of the Ancient Egyptians by J. Norman Lockyer, New York, The McMillian Company 1897, as seen on page 317-318, "We are driven, then, to the conclusion that the star Capella is personified by Ptah, and that as Capella was worshipped setting, Ptah is represented as a mummy ... the temples both at Annu and Memphis were dedicated to Ptah."