永恒之符

(2017-05-27 14:57:08)

这是一个古老而神秘的符号：ankh代表永恒

图中

法老在享用着这个工具带来的福利

你会使用吗？

答案是否定的

每一个埃及的法老都知道这一点

可惜他们都没能实现永生

现代的埃及人只是戴在手上，挂在脖子上，作为吉祥物

Ankh

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ankh

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For the book of H. G. Wells, see Crux Ansata. For other uses, see Ankh (disambiguation).

Ankh

The ankh (/k/ or /ɑ?k/; Egyptian n?), also known as crux ansata (the Latin for "cross with a handle") is an ancientEgyptian hieroglyphic ideograph with the meaning "life".

The Egyptian gods are often portrayed carrying it by its loop, or bearing one in each hand, arms crossed over their chest. The ankh appears in hand or in proximity of almost every deity in the Egyptian pantheon (including Pharaohs).

The ankh symbol was so prevalent that it has been found in digs as far as Mesopotamia and Persia, and even on the seal of the biblical king Hezekiah.[1]

The symbol became popular in New Age mysticism in the 1960s.

Referenced in the movie Logan's Run as the key to Sanctuary.

Unicode has two characters encoding the symbol, U+2625 ? in the Miscellaneous Symbols block and U+132F9 ?? in the Egyptian Hieroglyphs block.

Contents

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1Origin

2History

3Gallery

4References4.1Notes

4.2Bibliography

5External links

Origin[edit]

n?

in hieroglyphs

or

[2]

The ankh, during the reign ofHatshepsut (1508–1458 BC), from theRoyal Ontario Museum

Alan Gardiner (1957) explains the hieroglyph as a depiction of a sandal-strap (n?) which came to be read phonetically and could be used (as "rebus writing") for the similar word ?n? "live", a triliteral root probably pronounced /?ánax/ in Old and Middle Egyptian.[3][4] This verb and its derivatives are likely ancestral to the Coptic words  ōnh "to live, life" and  eneh"eternity".[5]

There have been alternative suggestions. One of the earliest proposals was that of Thomas Inman, first published in 1869, according to which the symbol combines "the male triad and the female unit".[6] E. A. Wallis Budge (1904) postulated that the symbol originated as the belt buckle of the mother goddess Isis.[7]

Merenptah offering an ankh, djed, and was to Ptah

An ankh-shaped mirror case

Andrew Hunt Gordon and Calvin Schwabe, in their 2004 book The Quick and the Dead, speculated that the ankh, djed, and wassymbols have a basis in "cattle culture", with the ankh representing the thoracic vertebra of a bull (seen in cross section), the djed the base or sacrum of a bull's spine, and the was a staff.[8]

History[edit]

The ankh appears frequently in Egyptian tomb paintings and other art, often at the fingertips of a god or goddess in images that represent the deities of the afterlife conferring the gift of life on the dead person's mummy; this is thought to symbolize the act of conception.[citation needed] Additionally, an ankh was often carried by Egyptians as an amulet, either alone, or in connection with two other hieroglyphs that mean "strength" and "health" (see explication of djed and was, above).[citation needed] Mirrors of beaten metal were also often made in the shape of an ankh, either for decorative reasons or to symbolize a perceived view into another world.[citation needed]

A symbol similar to the ankh appears frequently in Minoan and Mycenaean sites[where?]. This is a combination of the sacral knot (symbol of holiness) with the double-edged axe (symbol of matriarchy)[9] but it can be better compared with the Egyptiantyet which is similar. This symbol can be recognized on the two famous figurines of the chthonian Snake Goddess discovered in the palace of Knossos. Both snake goddesses have a knot with a projecting loop cord between their breasts.[10] In the Linear B (Mycenean Greek) script, ankh is the phonetic sign za.[11]

Crux ansata in Codex Glazier

The ankh also appeared frequently in coins from ancient Cyprus and Asia Minor (particularly the city of Mallus in Cilicia).[12] In some cases, especially with the early coinage of King Euelthon of Salamis, the letter ku, from the Cypriot syllabary, appeared within the circle ankh, representing Ku(prion) (Cypriots). To this day, the ankh is also used to represent the planet Venus (the namesake of which, the goddess Venus or Aphrodite, was chiefly worshipped on the island) and the metal copper (the heavy mining of which gave Cyprus its name).[13]

Coptic Christians preserved the shape of the ankh by sometimes representing the Christian cross with a circle in place of the upper bar. This is known as the Coptic ankh or crux ansata.[14][15]

Gallery[edit]

References[edit]

Notes[edit]

Jump up^ "King Hezekiah in the Bible: Royal Seal of Hezekiah Comes to Light". Biblical Archaeology Society.

Jump up^ Collier, Mark and Manley, Bill. How to Read Egyptian Hieroglyphs: Revised Edition pg 23. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998.

Jump up^ Allen, James P. (2013-07-11). The Ancient Egyptian Language: An Historical Study. Cambridge University Press. p. 99. ISBN 9781107032460.

Jump up^ Gardiner, Alan. Egyptian Grammar, Third Edition. Cambridge University Press. 1957. p. 508.

Jump up^ "Coptic Dictionary Online". corpling.uis.georgetown.edu. Retrieved 2017-03-16.

Jump up^ "It is by Egyptologists called the symbol of life. It is also called the "handled cross", or crux ansata. It represents the male triad and the female unit, under a decent form. There are few symbols more commonly met with in Egyptian art. In some sculptures, where the sun's rays are represented as terminating in hands, the offerings which these bring are many a crux ansata, emblematic of the truth that a fruitful union is a gift from the deity." Inman, Thomas. Ancient Pagan and Modern Christian Symbolism, Second Edition. New York: J. W. Bouton, 706 Broadway. Published 1875. Page 44. ISBN 978-1-4209-2987-4.

Jump up^ A Guide to the Third and Fourth Rooms of the British Museum (London: s.n.: 1904), 210.

Jump up^ Gordon, Andrew Hunt; Schwabe, Calvin W (2004). The Quick and the Dead: Biomedical Theory in Ancient Egypt First Edition. Brill/Styx. ISBN 90-04-12391-1.

Jump up^ F. Schachermeyer. (1964) "Die Minoische Kultur des alten Kreta" pp. 161, 163–164

Jump up^ Cristopher L.C.E Witcombe. "Minoan snake goddess". 9: Snake charmers

Jump up^ M. Ventris, J. Chadwick

Jump up^ The Cambridge Ancient History, Cambridge University Press; AsiaMinorCoins.com

Jump up^ Fisher, Fred H., Cyprus: Our New Colony And What We Know About It, London: George Routledge and Sons 1878, pp. 13–14.

Jump up^ "Egyptian Religion", David P. Silverman, p. 135, Oxford University Press US, 2003, ISBN 0-19-521952-X

Jump up^ "Ankh – Ancient Symbol of Life". Retrieved 4 November 2012.

Bibliography[edit]

Collier, Mark and Manley, Bill. How to Read Egyptian Hieroglyphs: Revised Edition. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1998.

Salaman, Clement and Van Oyen, Dorine and Wharton, William D. and Mahé, Jean-Pierre (translation) (2000). The Way of Hermes: New Translations of The Corpus Hermeticum and The Definitions of Hermes Trismegistus to Asclepius. Rochester: Inner Traditions.

Three Initiates (1912). The Kybalion. Chicago: The Yogi Publication Society Masonic Temple.

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