As already mentioned, the position of the Sun between the bull’s horns near the crossing place of the Sun and the Milky Way (often seen with the Apis bull in ancient Egypt) poses an obvious mismatch by distance and size when compared to the collective examples of the repeating cosmic pattern of the ancients. This being the case, then why did the ancient Egyptians sometimes portray the ‘solar disc’ between the horns of the celestial bull?
The answer is simple.
In his book, ‘The Hidden Records, author Wayne Herschel debates his interpretation and in summary here are the important factors to consider.
The Pleiades and the Sun-like star (that Wayne believes was significant to the ancients), are found directly behind the horns and neck of the celestial bull of the sky. On a practical level, when carving a statue, a convenient place the solar disc could be incorporated, would be for it to be wedged firmly between the horns. It would seem murals inadvertently emulated this portrayal.
Be that as it may, there is very early evidence at the Temple of Hathor in Dendera of the solar disc being placed correctly in the ‘sacred’ position in the nape of the neck of the celestial bull and not the horns (as in the case of the earliest ancient Egyptian relic… the Narmer tablet discussed in the book). This is exactly where the Pleiades and the Sun-like star are found in the night sky.
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Notice how the celestial bull cryptically points to the disc with his ‘sacred’ leg! The Dendera zodiac disc repeats the same them, as does the Senmut tomb mural (see below). And if you were wondering about the crescent… The ultimate question should be… Is the crescent conclusively indicative of a world in partial shadow from its Sun-like star, and not our moon at all? A theory further corroborated by other ancient relics and the Nebra disc ( Click here for Nebra disc).