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==Divination meaning==
==Divination meaning==
[[The Egyptian Star Oracle]] connects this decan with the Tree of Life.
[[The Egyptian Star Oracle]] connects this decan with the [[Tree of Life]].


==Characteristics==
==Characteristics==
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The Dendera D [[zodiac]] ceiling depicts this decan as a seated lion-headed god. The same ceiling gives its mineral as gold.
The Dendera D [[zodiac]] ceiling depicts this decan as a seated lion-headed god. The same ceiling gives its mineral as gold.
It is ruled over by [[Hapy]], the son of [[Horus]] depicted as a baboon.





Latest revision as of 05:34, 8 May 2025

Tepy-a Semed is the 18th decan of the main decanal stars of Egyptian astrology. The decan has its heliacal rise during the week of II Peret 21-30 in the Egyptian calendar. Its name is translated as "predecessor of the horn."

Tepy-a Semed as depicted on the ceiling of the Dendera Temple on the Dendera D Zodiac

Divination meaning

The Egyptian Star Oracle connects this decan with the Tree of Life.

Characteristics

On the astronomical ceiling in the tomb of Senmut, Tepy-a Semed is included with the decans of The Boat group. Although the decan is clearly connected with The Sheep (it is part of a horn, after all), the substance of the decan fits with the philosophical view of The Boat as a vessel for aspects of the human condition; in this case, Tepy-a Semed represents your intellectual world.

In ritual work, Tepy-a Semed can repel evil spirits and has control over diseases. This decan can spread a plague that spares his virtuous followers, but leaves enemies very sick. The Naos of the Decades makes the curious claim that victims of Tepy-a Semed will feel the “voice of the bull throbbing in every part of their body.” This may also be a reference to the deity Bael. A Ugaritic text from 1250BC describes Baal as having two horns and the “voice of the bull.”

The Dendera D zodiac ceiling depicts this decan as a seated lion-headed god. The same ceiling gives its mineral as gold.

It is ruled over by Hapy, the son of Horus depicted as a baboon.



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