Lepus

    On the Denderah Zodiac below Gemini, is a hawk figure with the Double Crown (Pshent, unification of the white and red crown) or Horus crown of upper and lower Egypt and the curly object on its head, and it is perched upon an object that is either an Egyptian
candleholder
or axis,
or a mace
or a roll of papyrus.
    Since Lepus is seen as a netjeru in animal form, therefore it represents a pure force of nature.
    Therefore this is Lepus and is known as Bashti-beki, which means falling confounded,
or the Offended confounded.
    Aratus says it means chased eternally.
    As seen in the Ursa Major constellation section the Egyptian Uaz or Waz, was considered a vegetation goddess, and pictured as a conventional papyrus as seen below.

    As seen in the image above, Lepus on the Grand Temple is located above Decan 35-36.

    As seen on the    ESNE Plate 79 located between Cancer and Gemini is a figure with the candleholder or mace on top of a crown like object with two arm-like objects coming out of it, which may represent Lepus.

    Lepus according to one source, "Horus is truthful consciousness in Creation.    Horus is the Living God.    Horus is Re’s son.    Horus is Reason.    Horus is the light of the candle called life.    He is shown standing as a candle on the axis of the temple in the monument."    Sextant’s arrow is aimed "...through the double crown on the head of Horus (Lepus)."

    In the "Gospel of the Stars," by Joseph Seiss, he claims on page 116 "In the Denderah Zodiac the figure is the Eagle or Hawk, the particular enemy of the Serpent, having on his head a double mark of crownings with power and majesty, and standing on top of a great mace as the triumphant royal Breaker and Bruiser of the powers of evil."

    In "The Witness of the Stars," by E.W. Bullinger, page 141 "In the Persian planisphere the first constellation was pictured by a serpent.    In the Denderah (Egyptian) Zodiac it is an unclean bird standing on the serpent, which is under the feet of Orion.    Its name there is given as Bashti-beka.    Bashti means confounded, and Beki means failing."

 

    The constellation Columba (Dove), whose name was a genuine attempt to immortalize biblical events and was originally Columba Noae, which by literal interpretation means The Dove of Noah.    The constellation looks like an irregular "T", and has two stars of interest a Phakt, and b Wezn.    Some sources are using it to represent Horus as seen in Cepheus and to replace Lepus in that area, by claiming that Columba is the Crown of Horus and meaning cosmic Truth.

    The constellation Columba was not one of the original 88 as seen above, but was created later.    Yet still, it is possible that the Egyptians used the stars in that area, which I believe as extensions of the constellation of Lepus.    It is known that a Phakt, which is in the modern constellation of Columba actually gave a warning that the summer solstice was on its way.
    In "The Dawn of Astronomy" by J. Norman Lockyer, New York, The McMillian Company 1897, as seen on page 363, "I will deal with Amen-t first.    No doubt it will have been already asked how it came that such an unfamiliar star as Phact had been selected.
    Here the answer is overwhelming.    This star, although so little familiar to us northerners, is one of the most conspicuous of the stars in the southern portion of the heavens, and its helical rising heralded the solstice and the rise of the Nile before the helical rising of Sirius was useful for that purpose!
    Under Phact we have the star symbolised by the ancient Egyptians under the name of the goddess Amen-t (wife of sun-god Ra) or Teki (Netjer of the Month of Thoth, at the Ramesseum and Edfu: Teki (Techi).), whose figure in the month table at the Ramesseum leads the procession of the months.."