Transcript Kemetic Symbols - Mr. Rosentel's Website

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symbolizes “life”
 Represents the unification of masculine and
feminine forces of the universe and the
creation of new life
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Oval = womb
Vertical bar = phallus (ding ding)
Horizontal bar = new life
 What’s
it mean?
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Symbol for sun and light
Netcher Heru represented by falcon and right eye
represents sun and sun’s ability, like that of God’s, to
be omniscient (all-seeing)
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Bird that sleeps with head folded beneath wing and
forms shape of heart
Seen as seat of soul and true intelligence
Footstep of ibis equal to 1 cubit, a sacred unit of
measurement
Netcher Djhuiti portrayed with ibis head and
represented divine articulation of speech and
intelligence
 Greeks called Djhuiti Thoth and Hermes
 Romans identified him with Mercury
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Symbolizes resurrection and immortality of God as
represented by sun
Lays its eggs in a ball of dung, which it rolls across the
ground in a direction that follows the path of the sun;
sun’s heat warms eggs in dung and they undergo a
metamorphosis
 Ball of dung symbolizes “matter”
 Eggs symbolize “spiritual potential”
 Newly born scarab symbolizes “spiritual rebirth”
Netcher Khepri symbolizes this transformative quality
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Stubborn, passionate, and often overburdened
Bears the weight of our suffering, but often refuses to
go in the direction we think is best
Symbolizes Netcher Set, who is also reddish, is
rebellious, and is often referred to as evil
In Bible
 Sampson defeats his enemies with the jawbone of an
ass
 Christ rides into Jerusalem on an ass
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Feasts on carrion (dying flesh) at a specific point of decay
for it to be of sustenance
 Represents “fine judgment”
Represented by Netcher Anpu (Anubis), who is responsible
for adjusting the balance of the scale of the heart/soul of
deceased at judgment
Anpu also prepares corpse to serve as receptacle for
reincarnated spirit before guiding it through the
underworld
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Nile River had Netcher Hapi, represented by an elderly
man with large, flabby female breasts that symbolized one
who had breastfed the entire nation
Probably source of the word “happy”
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Sun represented in various Netcherw according to aspects
of sun
 Khepri: personification of sun rising; represents rising
sun
 Ra or Re: most significant sun-Netcher; represented the
creative aspect of God; responsible for all creation;
self-created and all-powerful
 Amen or Amon: personification of sun after setting;
hidden from view in underworld; depicted as a man
with head and horns of ram (“ram” in the Medu Netcher
– later known as hieroglyphics meant “concealment”)
As sun was born each morning in east, all work began on
east bank of Nile; as sun died in west, buried dead on
west bank of Nile