Emma Sweetie-Darling,
LOVE your post on the Ankh. It is truly a powerful and magical Egyptian symbol of life. All of the High Priestesses in Egypt during the time of the pharohs possessed one.
The Ankh is defined as: The symbolic representation of both Physical and Eternal life. It is known as the riginal cross, which is a powerful symbol that was first created by Africans in Ancient Egypt.
The Ankh is commonly known to mean 'life' in the language of Ancient Kemet (land of the Blacks) renamed Egypt by the Greeks. It is also a symbol for the power to give and sustain life, the Ankh is typically associated with material things such as water (which was believed by Egyptians to regenerate life), air, sun, as well as with the Gods, who are frequently pictured carrying an Ankh.
Egyptian gods carried the ankh by the loop, or held one in each hand crossed over their breast. Latinists interpreted the symbol as a crux ansata, "cross with a handle".
Last edited on Thu Sep 25th, 2008 05:23 pm by AriesAngel
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