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I cannot see any shark in the Dendera zodiac(s). According to Allen:

"The Incas of Peru said that it [i.e. the Milky Way] was the dust of stars, and gave titles to its various parts; the Ottawa Indians, that it was the muddy water stirred up by a turtle swimming along the bottom of the sky; while the Polynesian islanders know it as the Long, Blue, Cloud-eating Shark."

The Ottawa turtle (GD17) must surely be the same one as in the rongorongo texts, I think, swimming in the 'waters below', i.e. close to midwinter solstice.

If we want to localize the cloud-eating shark on the starry sky, we need to know where to find the Milky Way. Perhaps it is best to use some more of the illustrations from Hancock 3, sooner or later we will need them anyhow I think.

First a picture that illustrates how the Egyptians tried to make a 'map' of the sky on the the surface of the earth by building pyramids in a pattern like that of the prominent stars, with the Nile as the equivalent of the Milky Way.

Then two pictures which illuminates the situation ca 10,500 BC.

I don't know if anything of the information above will be useful, but I have made at least made a start by presenting some ideas of my own about the 'bent shark' in GD62.