What is "ansata"

Usage examples of "ansata".

He wants a visible image to fix his thought, a scarabee or a crux ansata, or the modern symbols which are to our own time what these were to the ancient Egyptians.

Master Sean had prowled round the room with his eyes half closed, his golden crux ansata in his right hand, probing everywhere.

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

Their key symbol was the looped cross of ancient Egypt, the crux ansata -- the sign of life.

Bernie Kornblum had been killed, shot by an Ansata terrorist who was attempting to blow up the ship, and everyone had believed Data to be dead as well, though that turned out to be a ruse.

Shelliak, Romulans, Ansata terrorists, Gomtuu, Tallarians, two-dimensional creatures, and more spatial anomalies than she could shake a stick at, not to mention regular visits from Q, Sonya began to grow weary of it.

On the other the winged serpent, the uraeus, bearing the looped cross, the crux ansata, the symbol of 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.

Hence the Ank Cross or Crux Ansata of Egypt, scepter of the Lord of the Dead that never die.

The Crux Ansata was the particular emblem of Osiris, and his sceptre ended with that figure.

Crux Ansata, a Tau cross with a circle over it, means life-giving, 290-u.

I wore a small gold badge under my lapela badge in the shape of the crux ansata, the looped Egyptian cross of natural, holy life.

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

He held a wooden staff, nine feet high, on top of which was carved a crux ansata.

Lightly engraved on its domed face was the looped cross, the crux ansata.