I switched from using Stellarium to using Starry Night Sky Safari on iPad, which is supposed to be accurate to 10,000 BC according to the developers. An interesting piece came up when I viewed my proposed date for the story of Djedi - a constellation that looked like a ship. Ultimately, the constituent parts of the former constellation of Argo Navis, which according to Wikipedia is thought the Greeks knew of from the Egyptians who knew it as the boat of Osiris.

I wondered where the boat was in relation to Piscis Austrinus and it is just below, to the side, below the horizon in what the Egyptians would have called the Duat. This raises the possibility that the stories of Djadjaemankh and of Djedi are linked and the folding of the lake to find the fish pendant is indicating an understanding of the constellations in the sky and below the horizon and fits in with the variable hours of the night.

Immediately above the boat is the constellation hydra which according to Table 6.1 in Lull and Belmonte, was considered the constellation htp rdwy our “Lying on his feet” which is a crocodile. The story before Djadjaemankh and the story after Djedi feature crocodiles that takes a villager.





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