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Egyptian Bronze Pendant Necklace - Ankh & Scarab

$7.50

Product Code: BZP-1032
Tags: L: 1.25" W: 0.5"
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MYSTIC NILE - The Egyptian Collection - ANKH & SCARAB

The Ankh is one of the most important, enduring and popular symbols of the ancient world. The word means “life” in the language of the Nile region. Ankhs were carried as amulets against sickness, danger and death. Ankhs were used in Egyptian art in all sorts of ways. Pictures of the sun were made with ankhs at the end of the sunbeams. Ankhs were combined with scarabs, pictures of the Gods, and were made into household objects, some of which survive up to this day. Tutankhamen’s tomb held a box in the shape of an ankh . The Ankh was life, and all invocations, prayers, and ceremonies used the ankh to lend power to their thoughts. Thoughts that were intended to heal, nurture and protect. The meanings of the ankh are too numerous to be summed up; but one thing is certain: the ankh is one of the oldest symbols in the world and time has only increased its popularity.

The Scarab was one of the forms their Sun God could take. The Scarab Beetle was often seen rolling a ball of dung across the desert floor (to be used as food for it’s young). To the Egyptians, this suggested a metaphor for the movements of the sun across the sky, so that the scarab was synonymous with Ra, the Sun God. A Scarab could be shown simply as a winged disc. Together, the Scarab and the Ankh could mean: to live beneath the Sun. In other words, to be human being.

Bronze Pendants come on Legend Cards with a 33" black cord.