Draco and
(Corona Borealis)

    Some claim this is an image of Tauret, a pregnant hippopotamus, with cow horns.

    To the Egyptians, Draco, the Dragon is a crocodile or hippopotamus.    Egyptian temples were oriented to Thuban, the polestar 4,700 years ago, which lies in the middle of the long tail of the dragon.    You can see this figure very clearly in the Zodiac of Denderah.

    On the Denderah Zodiac, Draco has a head as if a mixture of a hippopotamus/crocodile with a tongue protruding and with a female body like a hippopotamus with a long pointed tail.    In its right hand it is holding the shaft of a very large feather.
    Since Draco is seen as a netjeru in a mixture of animal forms, therefore it represents a mixture of the force of nature.

    It is assumed that Draco includes, Corona Borealis as one of its attributes or body ornaments, since it has no noticeable Denderah Zodiac representation, unless it is the feather in its hand, or as seen later the chain attached to Ursa Major.

    From the website www.siloam.net/denderah where it claims and I am unsure where this could have come from is that the Little Dipper (Ursa Minor) may be in the womb of Draco-Tauret.    See the Decan of Ursa Minor for better information on this subject.    What could be considered here only as an assumption is that maybe the ignored constellation Corona Borealis is in the womb of Draco-Tauret.

    Draco on the Grand Temple can be seen located above Decan 17 with a chain attached to a bull-like animal (Ursa Major).

    Draco with a crocodile on its back with a folded feather on its wrist, while holding a chain (some claim it is a mooring post) attached to the leg of an animal (Ursa Major) as seen on ESNE Plate 87 in the lower section.

    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 148 in reference to his question - Is Isis the chain?, "In the square zodiac at Denderah (as seen at the top of this column) we find an illustration of the Hippopotamus and the Thigh (Mesket) and the chain referred to in the inscription is there also.    It will be quite worthwhile to see whether this chain is not justified by some line of stars between the chief stars in Draco and those of the Great Bear."
    I am proposing as you will see in Draco that the chain may actually be the Denderah version of the constellation of Corona Borealis.

    In the Zodiac of Denderah Draco is the serpent under the forefeet of Sagittarius and called Her-fent, "the serpent accursed."    Fent means serpent.

    On the Grand Temple located above Decan 14, we can also see Draco below Sagittarius' feet.

    In "The Witness of the Stars," by E.W. Bullinger, he claims that "In the Zodiac of Denderah it (Draco) is shown as a serpent under the fore-feet of Sagittarius, and is named Her-fent, which means the serpent accursed!"

    Draco - from www.siloam.net the page cornwal4.htm, page 7 this source claims, "At the center of the Denderah zodiac is the image of Tauret.    She is a pregnant hippopotamus who wears cow horns and a crocodile skin cloak.    In the heavens, she is the Sun Dragon, Draco, which marks the north axis of the ecliptic plane.    The cloak around Draco is the Milky Way.    The crocodile can be seen in the Milky Way with an open mouth through which the wane Cygnus, the fox Vulpecula, and the Eagle Aquila are moving.    Coming out of the mouth of the crocodile is the end of the tail of Serpens.    Also, within the mouth is the child Antinous, or Horus the son of Isis and Osiris.    Like a river crocodile, Tauret protects the young within the cage of her teeth."

    Other comments about Crocodiles in Egypt.

    Tauret a goddess of childbirth was a female hippopotamus with human breasts, lion’s feet, and a scaled, crocodilian back.    Standing upright, she had a sort of wig descending to her fat shoulders.    She carried a hieroglyph sa a sign of protection.

    Ammut with horrible looks, is a cross between a crocodile, lioness and hippopotamus.    An Egyptian demonic goddess who attended the Judging of the Dead and devoured condemned souls.

    Sebek was a Crocodile god of Fayum (worshipped at the city of Arsinoe, called Crocodilopolis) thought to be the creator god, emerging from the waters of chaos to lay his eggs on the bank.    He was linked to the evil god Set.    See Sobek, and ESNE Plate 79.

    Other constellations that could be related are Cetus the Whale or Sea Monster (associated with Tiamat of Mesopotamia, or the Ophis serpent of the Egyptians).    Also considered is Hydra the Old Sea Serpent.

    All the Egyptian deities mentioned in the far right column are associated with "leviathan" (Isaiah 27:1, Ezek. 32:1-4, Job 41:1-2), twisted animal, sea serpents, crocodiles, great water beast, and Satan.

    Draco can be seen in Job 26:13 "By his spirit he hath garnished the heavens; his hand hath formed the crooked serpent".

    From www.siloam.net/denderah it claims that Draco or "Tauret holds an object in her hand which represents an architect's construction triangle.    Saturn marks the day of the last judgment, and Tauret carries the child of poor judgment to a New Age (i.e. Pisces).    The message in her triangle of construction is, 'find this angle, for here is wisdom, it is the mark of a man, and the mark of a beast (i.e. Sculpta = Cassiopeia-Eridanus), and its number is 666 years'."