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A scarred tree or scar tree, also known as a canoe tree and shield tree, is a tree which has had bark removed by Aboriginal Australians for the creation of bark canoes, shelters, weapons such as shields, tools, traps, containers (such as coolamons), or other artefacts. Carved trees may also be created as a form of artistic and spiritual ...
The Stele of Ankh-ef-en-Khonsu (Cairo A 9422, formerly Bulaq 666) is a painted, wooden offering stele.The stele is a fairly typical example of a Theban offering stele from the late Third Intermediate Period, [4] dating to the late 25th Dynasty/early 26th Dynasty. [5]
Ankh signs in two-dimensional art were typically painted blue or black. [24] The earliest ankh amulets were often made of gold or electrum, a gold and silver alloy. Egyptian faience, a ceramic that was usually blue or green, was the most common material for ankh amulets in later times, perhaps because its color represented life and regeneration ...
The Ankh is the Egyptian hieroglyphic character ☥, meaning "life". Ankh may also refer to: People. Ankh-ef-en-Khonsu i, an Ancient Egyptian priest of the god Mentu;
The sides are decorated with djed pillars, a symbol of endurance which is linked closely with the god Osiris and tyet-knots, which can stand for life, like the ankh, and is a symbol of the goddess Isis. A design of recessed niches decorates the lower edge. [1]
Ahmose I (Amosis, Aahmes; meaning "Iah (the Moon) is born" [24]) was a pharaoh and founder of the Eighteenth Dynasty of Egypt in the New Kingdom of Egypt, the era in which ancient Egypt achieved the peak of its power.
Ankh spawned two sequels: Ankh: Heart of Osiris and Ankh: Battle of the Gods. In 2006, the original Ankh was ported to Linux [3] and OS X. A Special Edition of the game was released in the UK in February 2007. [4] A Nintendo DS port was released in 2008 under the title Ankh: Curse of the Scarab King (German: Ankh: Der Fluch des Skarabäenkönigs).
The conception of the tree rising through a number of worlds is found in northern Eurasia and forms part of the shamanic lore shared by many peoples of this region. This seems to be a very ancient conception, perhaps based on the Pole Star, the centre of the heavens, and the image of the central tree in Scandinavia may have been influenced by ...