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The ankh (☥; also ansata cross and also known as the key to life), is an ancient and sacred Egyptian symbol. The Ankh cross essentially symbolizes life and immortality. The ankh represents the union of male and female (the opposites) and the eternal cycle of life. The Ancient Egyptians believed that the human soul was made up of five parts: the Ren, the Ba, the Ka, the Sheut, and the Ib. In addition to this, they believed that everyone had a Ba-bird with which they would be reunited after death.. Ancient Egyptians often portrayed and depicted the Egyptian gods and...

The ankh is a symbol of Egyptian royalty, strength, and wisdom in Ancient Egyptian culture and Ancient Egyptian religion. It is a cross that represents the pharaoh and was used to represent the king’s power. The ankh can be used to represent many different things including the Egyptian god Ra, the sun god Heliopolitan, and the moon mother-goddess Isis. It is also used as a symbol of life in general.The ankh was first discovered in Egypt in the late first millennium BCE. It was believed to have been made from the bones of a dead animal or person. Ankh crosses...

The Ankh cross, also known as the Egyptian cross of life, is a very important symbol of the ancient Egyptian culture, today often used as tattoo. It is a special cross because it has an oval shape, a kind of circle, in the upper part. It is called "Key of Life".In the Egyptian script, it means "to live" or "life" and is written in our alphabet like this: ankh. This cross is the symbol of immortality because it is carried in the hand by all the ancient Egyptian gods and goddesses. This cross represents life after death and can also...

Tattoo of Ankh : key of life, meaning, ideas and curiosities. In the Nile Delta Pharaonic civilization, You've probably seen in many representations many ankh figures, on mummy coffin, tombs, temples...etc. Ankh is on of the egyptian symbols that has thousands of years old and lately it is quite common within the tattoo world. In ancient Egyptian art, the ânkh is thus omnipresent among the deities ( Thot the ibis / baboon scribe, Sekhmet the lioness egyptian goddess of war, Bastet the cat goddess of childbirth, Anubis the protector oh the underworld etc..) . Indeed, it is carried by ancient egyptian...

 The Ankh is an Ancient Egyptian symbol that functions as both a symbol of life (breath of life, gift of life, back to life), fertility and immortality (life after death). All ancient Egyptian gods and goddesses of kemet are depicted in ancient egyptian art. The Ankh cross, used by Anubis, Protector Egyptian god of the underword, is the symbolic of the deceased ressurection and the rebirth of the souls in front of Isis and Osiris, feminine and masculine mythical . God Horus is the personification of the his ressurected deity father Osiris by the mother-goddess Isis.  The meaning of the...