Holger Isenberg Wrote:
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> Good to know the name of the scarab-crab now! I
> see one of the alternative name writings, Khephir,
> sounds like German "Käfer" (beetle, used for the
> insect and also for the car).
>
> Maybe Khepri was just one of the avatars of
> Cancer, similar to the many visual avatars some
> Egyptian gods had.

No. Cancer was never associated with any major deity. Furthermore, I had a look at the Dendera zodiac ceiling... and there isn't a crab there.

See for yourself: [c8.alamy.com]

Notice that the style and signs are the same on the round ceiling as on the strip ceiling. They're even in the same order.

Sirius is Horus on a papyrus column. Cancer seems to be the bull on the barge. Since they were made around the same time, if the sign of Cancer had been a scarab beetle, then it would also have appeared like this on the zodiac ceiling, right behind the Horus-papyrus-column version of Sirius.

Kepher as the winged beetle is shown elsewhere in the temple, in the same "Nut-giving-birth-to-the-Sun" image. Constellations are never shown in this way.

-- Byrd
Moderator, Hall of Ma'at