Sacred cross in ancient Egypt

Usage examples of ankh.

Fastened to the wall above it was an ancient ankh or crux ansata, the Egyptian cross with looped top, symbolizing procreation and life.

Turning away from the windows, Blake noticed that the cobwebbed cross above the altar was not of the ordinary kind, but resembled the primordial ankh or crux ansata of shadowy Egypt.

By June this year, I had my new instrument built, rebuilt, and calibrated against the Ankh, the Tetragrammaton, and the Pentacle Reversed.

He lay stretched out full length across the top of a glass display case that was crammed with enough silvery ankh pendants to outfit half the population of suburban Goth wannabees on the Eastern Seaboard.

Greek shrine in Delphi, gold caducei wands, hundreds of Tjet ankhs resembling small standing angels, sistrum rattles used in ancient Egypt to dispel evil spirits, and an astonishing array of statues depicting Horus being nursed by the goddess Isis.

Not for His Grace the Duke of Ankh, Commander of the City Watch, Sir Samuel Vimes.

According to a police intake form, he had small ankh, the Egyptian symbol of life, in the web between the thumb and index finger of his right hand.

Judith raised her ankh in the air, and shook it so that they could feel its aura scrape ever so lightly against their nervous systems.

If she set the ankh to its hottest setting, she could start a blaze that would set off a hundred alarms in Pole Star City.

We have the golden chalice, the work of native goldsmiths using the Ankh motif by chance, they will say.

I glimpse her smile and the sign of the ankh that marks her right eye.

Not only did Saunière have a personal passion for relics relating to fertility, goddess cults, Wicca, and the sacred feminine, but during his twenty-year tenure as curator, Saunière had helped the Louvre amass the largest collection of goddess art on earth—labrys axes from the priestesses' oldest Greek shrine in Delphi, gold caducei wands, hundreds of Tjet ankhs resembling small standing angels, sistrum rattles used in ancient Egypt to dispel evil spirits, and an astonishing array of statues depicting Horus being nursed by the goddess Isis.

By shape the Ankh (or Crux Ansata) suggests the formula by which this going is effected in actual practice.

It was a necklace rich and simple-a heavy gold chain with tripled linkage, supporting a large gold ankh, a crux ansata.

And she had no reason to think she was hallucinating, unless the unknown radiation given off by the ankh had induced it.