From The Alpha and the Omega - Volume III
by Jim A. Cornwell, Copyright © July 20, 2002, all rights reserved
"Volume III - Taurus and its Decan Constellations"

Taurus and its Decan Constellations.

Decan 25-26

    Decan 26 is seen below the forefeet of Taurus as a female figure with a lion’s head, with three cobra-like serpents on her head (Uraeus, the cobra is an emblem of Lower Egypt, associated with a kingdom of Lower Egypt, and as a symbol worn on the crown or headdress of royalty).    She is on her knees, with her hands on her thighs, and in front of her abdomen are seven stars in a u-shaped pattern.
    Since Decan 26 is seen as a netjeru in female human form, it represents a spiritual understanding.

    The hieroglyphs here are
the face sign, Egypt. hr,
then it is undetermined if it is
    the reed leaf \\, Egypt. y,
    or another sign,
and ending with a star.
    Thus it might read as [hr-y or hr-?].

    

    Seshat is also mentioned on Denderah Decan 2 by one source as "This is the symbol of Seshat (Sheshat) being given to the Humble Ram as a magic wand to rule the earth as a Humble Shepherd."
    As seen here on Denderah Decan 26, Seshat is stated by another source to be - "A woman’s intuition is multifaceted and strives for a consensus.    Here we see seven stars for the woman’s intuition, which is a clear symbol of the goddess Seshat, who is the mistress of measure.    Since she is kneeling, she is obeisant to the rational deity identified as a stiff-necked ram (see Denderah Decan 27)."
    From www.siloam.net/denderah it is claimed that Denderah Decan 26 is Pleiades (i.e. 7 stars) entitled "Emotional Obeisance" a mother, "who came to be placed in obeisance to rigid rationality (i.e. Denderah Decan 27 the stiff necked ram)."    (Noted also is that the Queen of Sheba yields suppressed spirits for the sake of the coming children).

    On Denderah Decan 3, Seshat is seen as Female Intuition, and "origin of the wisdom of Thoth, the essence of cosmic intuition, and the mistress of measure.    The Egyptian priests enacted a ceremony for her at the creation of the cosmos by the ceremony of the stretching of the cord.    Her magic wand (seven pointed star seen at Bootes) is a symbol of creative ideas."    Also see Denderah Decan 3 for more on Sheshat.
    The "stretching of the cord" was called Pedj Shes, a ceremony used to work out correct alignment for building temples and pyramids, by using the constellations of Orion and Ursa Major (the great bear).
    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 173, "Amongst these ceremonies, one especially refers to the fixing of the temple-axis; it is called, technically, 'the stretching of the cord,' and is not only illustrated by inscriptions on the walls of the temples of Karnak, Denderah, and Edfu ..
    Another part of the ceremony consisted in the king proceeding to the site where the temple was to be built, accompanied mythically by the goddess Sesheta, who is styled 'the mistress of the laying of the foundation-stone.'
    Each was armed with a stake.    The two stakes were connected by a cord.    Next the cord was aligned toward the sun or star.    As the case might be; when the alignment was perfect the two stakes were driven into the ground by means of a wooden mallet
."
    He continues on page 174-175, "Egyptian word which expresses the idea of founding or laying the foundation-stone of the temple is Senti - a word which still exists in Coptic.    But in the old language another word, Put-ser, which no longer remains in Coptic, has been traced.    It has been established that put means 'to stretch,' and ser means 'cord'."

    If compared to Denderah Decan 26, there is no major connection to be found.

 

    Grand Temple Decan 31 is a male figure with a hawk head with a scepter with four stars above it, wearing the Double Crown (Pshent, unification of the white and red crown) or Horus combination upper and lower Egypt crown with the curly cue, which can also be found on Grand Temple Decan 3, 9, and 31.

    Decan 31 is named    
Khaou or Khau,
the first three signs represent the Egyptian h, with a u under it,
and the vulture sign, 3, meaning a, since the h is the sieve sign kh,
    Thus we see it as [Kh-a].
    It is only used here.
    As seen on "http://home.main.rr.com/ imyunnut/Den.Round.html" by Joanne Conman, she claims "Khau" means "The Thousands" or "Three Thousand."

 

    As seen on "http://www.creatures-kbc.com/ae_senmut_sah.htm" by Ken Bakeman poses that the following hieroglyphs on Senmuts' Tomb Thousands Born represents "thousands born."

 

    Its deity is called     Hapy or Hapi.

 

    Associated with ORION and MONOCEROS,
it has stars
in Taurus as Aldebaran,
and Auriga as El Nath.
    Ophiuchus is associated with Scorpius even though it is in line with the Grand Temple Decan 31, it is out of place in lieu of probably Orion.

 

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Each of these are connected to the constellation Taurus,
Auriga, Monoceros, Orion.
Decan 25, Decan 26, Decan 27, Decan 28.

    This file last updated on March 21, 2004, March 31, 2005, and also on June 18, 2005

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