Talk:Sah (god)

Sah as the personification of Orion (solely) is wrong

To begin with, we are indeed talking cosmology here, so yes Sah is the anthropomorphoic representation of a natural phenomena, namely a constellation. But that constellation is not equal to the orion constellation but takes stars that are located in the current constellations lepus and eridanus as well, so it was a very large constellation. Let us remember that Orion is a myth introduced by the greeks to try to explain differently the myth of the "Good Shepherd" in Babylon, and the myth of "Sah" in Egypt. So Sah would be the anthropomorphic representation of today's Orion, Lepus, eridanus and part of the Columba constellations, not Orion alone, and for sure it was not symbolized as a hunter but as a "Merciful Judge" in the mold of the "Good Shepherd".

In the pc program stellarium you can visualize the constellation Sah (if you select Egyptian culture) as a very large one covering three current constellations and a portion of a fourth. The references for this are rather hard as the work done in Stellarium is referenced from abstract pictographic represenations found in walls and not star photographs, and the Egyptians were very abstract. you can check here [1] check the "later egyptian representations of the northern sky" apart.181.56.209.171 (talk) 13:54, 16 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]

References have now been added to the article. 181.56.209.171 (talk) 14:23, 16 June 2018 (UTC)[reply]