
A rendition of the Orion star constellation, named "Orion the Hunter" by the Greeks, as the Egyptian astro-theologians would have interpreted things, first as the god Sah, riding in his star boat, latter as the god Osiris "rising from the dead", during the Nov "raising of Orion" perceptual constellation orientation change; which, in Roman era times, was molded into the story of the "raising of Jesus" from the dead (e.g. raising of Lazarus).

A rendition of the Orion star constellation, named "Orion the Hunter" by the Greeks, as the Egyptian astro-theologians would have interpreted things, first as the god Sah, riding in his star boat, latter as the god Osiris "rising from the dead", during the Nov "raising of Orion" perceptual constellation orientation change; which, in Roman era times, was molded into the story of the "raising of Jesus" from the dead (e.g. raising of Lazarus).

In religion, astro-theology, "astronomical mythology" (Massey, 1907) or “stellar theology” (Sayce, 1913), is religion based on the identification of gods with stars, star constellations, or planets.

Orion | Sah | Osiris | Jesus
In 2287BC, in the Pyramid Texts of Pepi I, Osiris was being associated with the Orion star constellation, the dying and rising pharaoh (or hunter):

“Lo, he has come as Orion; Lo, Osiris has come as Orion; Lord of wine at the wag-feast.”
— Anon (2287BC), Pepi I (Ѻ) Pyramid Texts, Utterance 442 (Ѻ)

“Behold, he has come as Orion, Osiris has come as Orion, Lord of the Wine in the Wag-festival.”
— Anon (2287BC), Pyramid Text (§818-20) (Ѻ)

“Hail, O King! Thou art this great star, the bearer of Orion, who ferries the ship of heaven with Orion, who rows the ship of Dewat with Osiris. The king goes forth from the eastern part of heaven, reinvigorated in his season and fresh in his time. Nut gave birth to this King together with Orion. The Year (?) has adorned thee together with Osiris.”
— Anon (c.2300), Pyramid Text, 882a-883d.PM [7]

Osiris, at some point, before or after this, was synced with the god Sah.

The following shows an astro-theological detail from the tomb of Seti I (c.1275BC), the vault above the sarcophagus, the bull said to correspond to what is now called the "Great Bear" constellation, the others, supposedly being a mystery: [8]

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A sketch of the constellation “Argo Navis” (Ѻ), by German astronomer Johannes Hevelius (c.1670), the ship-like constellation, believed by Egyptians, according to Plutarch (100AD), to have been set in the sky in honor of Osiris. We also see the Southern Crux or "cross", said to be related to the idea that Osiris (turned Jesus) died on the cross.

A sketch of the constellation “Argo Navis” (Ѻ), by German astronomer Johannes Hevelius (c.1670), the ship-like constellation, believed by Egyptians, according to Plutarch (100AD), to have been set in the sky in honor of Osiris. We also see the Southern Crux or "cross", said to be related to the idea that Osiris (turned Jesus) died on the cross.

Plutarch
In 100AD, Plutarch summarized the main astrological ideas of the Egyptian gods as follows:

“The Egyptians say that the souls of their gods shine as the stars in the firmament, and the soul of Isis is called by the Greeks the Dog Star, but the Egyptians Sothis, and the soul of Horus is called Orion, and the soul of Typhon [Set] is called the Bear.”
— Plutarch (100AD), On Isis and Osiris (pg. 53)

“The Egyptians give to Osiris the title of general, and the title of pilot to Canopus, from whom they say that the star derives its name; also that the vessel which the Greeks call Argo, in form like the ship of Osiris, has been set among the constellations in his honor, and its course lies not far from that of Orion and the Dog-star; of these the Egyptians believe that one is sacred to Horus and the other to Isis.”
— Plutarch (100AD), On Isis and Osiris (pg. 55)

In 2004, Philip Coppens, in his The Canopus Revelation: Stargate of the Gods and the Ark of Osiris, devoted considerable time to discussion of the relation between Osiris and Canopus (Ѻ), the second brightest star in the sky. [7]

Derham | Usage
In 1713, English physicist and theologian William Derham gave a series of Boyle lectures, an anti-atheism anti-deism annual lecture series established by the will of Robert Boyle, on what he called “Physico-Theology” on the subject of a watchmaker like astronomy analogy as proof of the Christian religion against atheists and other notorious infidels, in the context of newly emerging natural philosophy. [1] In 1714, Derham, in follow up to the latter, published Astro-theology: a Demonstration of the Being and Attributes of God: From a Survey of the Heavens, a simplified summary of new telescope observations, e.g. the movement of the spots on Mars and Venus, the gist of which being to outline a teleological argument, similar to the watchmaker analogy, for god’s existence. [2] This Derham usage, according to Oxford English Dictionary, is the earliest use of the term “astro-theology”. The Derham usage, however, is but not defined in the modern proper pro-atheism sense of the term, as theology based on star or planet movement and or star cluster geometry.

Sun | Atum | Ra | Brahma | Abraham
In pre-dynastic Egypt, the sun was personified by a number of supreme gods, including: Ra, Atum, Aten, and Horus. During the Heliopolis recension (see: recension theory), Ra and Atum were syncretized as the god Atum-Ra. In Hinduism (900BC), Ra became Brahma. In Judaism (500BC), Ra became Abraham. In Christianity (300AD), Horus, the sun of Ra (or the sun of Osiris, depending on text), conceptualized as the early-day sun, became Jesus the son of god. [3]

Massey
In 1881, Gerald Massey began publishing his works on religio-mythology; some of which, supposedly, containing star or sun based discussion. In 1900, Massey published "The Historical Jesus and the Mythical Christ". In 1970, Jordan Maxwell read this, becoming inspired by it, and in 2000 re-published it under the title "Astro-Theology". [6]

Budge
In 1904, Wallis Budge, in his Gods of the Egyptians, Volume One (pg. 83), in discussion of the Pyramid Texts of the 4th and 5th dynasties, namely: Unas (2348BC), Teta [Teti] (2333BC) (Ѻ), Pepi I (2287BC), Mer-en-Ra-Mehti-em-sa-f, and Pepi II (Ѻ) , aka Pyramid Texts at Sakkara, as he calls them, states that among the gods of this period, "allusions are made to the following important stars", as he puts it: [3]

# Post-sync god
Pre-sync god
Star / Constellation
Budge listing

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1. Osiris Sah Orion
2. Isis Septet Dog Star [Sirius]
3. Set [?] Sehut Great Bear
4 Nephthys [?] Nekhekh [?]

#	Post-sync god	Pre-sync god	Star / Constellation	Budge listing
	--------------------------------	----------------------------	------------------------------------------
1.	Osiris	Sah	Orion
2.	Isis	Septet	Dog Star [Sirius]
3.	Set [?]	Sehut	Great Bear
4	Nephthys [?]	Nekhekh	[?]

Sah and Sopdet were later syncretized with the gods Osiris and Isis, respectively, as follows:

Orion (constellation) → Sah (god) → Osiris (god)
Sirius (star) → Sopdet (goddess) → Isis (goddess)

The star named “Sothis”, e.g. as mentioned in Pepi I Pyramid Texts (Ѻ), of note, seems also to be name variant of the star Sirius. (Ѻ)

Budge, in his The Gods of the Egyptians, Volume One (pgs. 487-88), in commentary of Heru-Sa-Ast-Sa-Asar, i.e. “Horus, son of Isis, son of Osiris”, the 14th form of Horus, according to Budge order, reformulated as Apollo by the Greeks (500BC) and Jesus by the Romans (300AD), stated the following about the Passion of Osiris: [3]

“Soon after the birth of her child she was persecuted by Set, who kept herself and Horus prisoners in a house, but by the help of Thoth she escaped with her child one evening, and set out on her way under the protection of seven scorpions called Tefen, Befen, Mestet, Mestetef, Petet, Thetet, and Matet. These scorpions probably represent the seven stars of the constellation Canis Major, in which the stars of Isis [Sirius] and Sothis were situated. The last three scorpions showed Isis the way and led her to the town of Crocodilopolis, and then on to the city of Thebti, the city of the Two Sandals-Goddesses, where the swamp country begins.”

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Recent
In 1913, Archibald Sayce, in his The Religion of Ancient Egypt, argued for a parallelism of the "stellar theology" of Babylon and Egypt, both countries absorbing popular star-worship into the official pantheon of their respective state religions by identification of gods with stars or planets. [4]

In 1959, Jordan Maxwell began to engage in free-thinking religious decoding. In 1970, Maxwell read Gerald Massey's "The Historical Jesus and the Mythical Christ", therein gleaning the idea of "astro-theology". [6] In c.2000, Maxwell published a DVD entitled Astrotheology: the Root of all Religion. (Ѻ) In 2010, segments of Maxwell’s talk on “astrotheology” at the Republic Forum began to appear on YouTube (Ѻ), wherein he commented his astrology-like view that the “stars effect people” and digressed on Biblical astrotheology decodings, such as that in Job 38:32 (Ѻ), which says: “Canst thou bring forth Mazzaroth [Zodiac] in their time? canst thou also guide [The North Star with those that are about him] Arcturus with his sons?”

In 1997, J.S. Gordon (1946-2013), in his Land of the Fallen Star Gods, building on the work of Helena Blavatsky, digresses on stars, gods, and mythology. [9]

In 1999, Dorothy Murdock was publishing ideas on the zodiac in relation to modern religion. In 2004, Murdock published Suns of Gods, which she considered as a PhD thesis on comparative religion and astrotheology. [5]

In 2009, bloggers were referring to the "main astrotheologists" as: Jordan Maxwell, Michael Tsarion, and Dorothy Murdock along with Zeitgeist references to it. (Ѻ)

In 2014, Wayne Herschel, author of The Hidden Records: the Star of the Gods, in his video “Senmut Tomb Tablet Reveal: Christmas Tree Egyptian Origin” (Ѻ), showed how the “leg of the bull” Egyptian symbol is the Pleiades constellation:

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Other
The is some conjecture (Ѻ) that the Big Dipper, according to the Egyptians, supposedly, was thought to be the torn off “leg of Set” following is battle with Horus:

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Quotes

The following are related quotes:

“The constellation of Isis is called, by the Greeks, Canis Major; that of Horus, Orion; and that of Typhon, Ursa.”
— Plutarch (c.110AD), De Iside et Osiride (pg. #); cited by John Narrien (1833) in Origin and Progress of Astronomy (pg. 44); cited by Bal Tilak (1893) in The Orion: Researches into the Antiquity of the Vedas (pg. 103) who also states: Narrien further observes that this assertion of Plutarch seems to be confirmed by the discovery of a sculptured planisphere on the ceiling of the Temple of Denderah where “in the place of Canis Major is traced a cow, the animal consecrated to Isis and instead of Orion is the figure of man which is supposed to be intended for the son of Osiris”

References
1. Derham, William. (1713). Physico-Theology. Publisher.
(b) Boyle Lectures – Wikipedia.
2. (a) Derham, William. (1714). Astro-theology: a Demonstration of the Being and Attributes of God: From a Survey of the Heavens. W.Innys, 1715.
(b) William Derham (about) – The Galileo Project.
3. Budge, Wallis. (1904). The Gods of the Egyptians, Volume One (important stars, pg. 83; Apollo, pg. 486; Horus son of Ra or son of Osiris, depending on text, pg. 487; seven scorpions, pgs. 487-88). Dover, 1969.
4. Sayce, Archibald H. (1913). The Religion of Ancient Egypt (pg. 237f). Adamant Media Corporation.
5. Dorothy Murdock (credentials) – TruthBeKnown.com.
6. Maxwell, Jordan; Tice, Paul; Snow, Alan. (2000). That Old-Time Religion: the Story of Religious Foundations (§: Astro-Theology, pgs. 5-24; §:The Solar Cult, pgs. 35-54). The Book Tree.
7. Coppens, Philip. (2004). The Canopus Revelation: Stargate of the Gods and the Ark of Osiris (abs). Frontier Publishing.
8. Marie-Rose, Anon and Hagen, Rainer. (2002). Egypt: People, Gods, Pharaohs (pg. 91). Taschen.
9. Gordon, J.S. (1997). Land of the Fallen Star Gods: the Celestial Origins of Ancient Egypt. Simon & Schuster, 2013.

Further reading
● Lull, Jose and Belmonte, Juan. (c.2015). “The Constellations of Ancient Egypt” (pdf), in: Publications (§6:157-) (38-pgs). Publisher.

External links
● Astro-theology – Wikipedia.
● Astrolatry – Wikipedia.