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The Uraeus (/ j ʊəˈr iː ə s /) [1] or Ouraeus (Ancient Greek: Οὐραῖος, Greek pronunciation: [οὐραῖος] ⓘ; Egyptian: jꜥrt, "rearing cobra", plural: Uraei) is the stylized, upright form of an Egyptian cobra, used as a symbol of sovereignty, royalty, deity and divine authority in ancient Egypt.
The Egyptian cobra was represented in Egyptian mythology by the cobra-headed goddess Meretseger. A stylised Egyptian cobra—in the form of the uraeus representing the goddess Wadjet—was the symbol of sovereignty for the Pharaohs who incorporated it into their diadem. This iconography was continued through the end of the ancient Egyptian ...
Wadjet in the form of a winged cobra, depicted in the Tomb of Nefertari, above Anubis (Jackal-like). The Egyptian word wꜣḏ signifies blue and green. It is also the name for the well-known "Eye of the Moon". [26] Wadjet was usually depicted as an Egyptian cobra, a venomous snake common to the region. In later times, she was often depicted ...
The cobra is one aspect of the Eye of Ra, which can also take the form of a woman (the word eye is feminine in Egyptian) or a dangerous lioness. The function of the Uraeus is clear. This female snake is a powerful symbol of protection, power and benevolence. [24] Attached to the pharaoh's forehead, the cobra spits venom fire at the kingdom's ...
According to Plutarch, the Egyptian queen Cleopatra, in preparing for her own suicide, tested various deadly poisons on condemned people and concluded that the bite of the asp (from the Greek word aspis, usually meaning an Egyptian cobra in Ptolemaic Egypt, and not the European asp) was the least terrible way to die; the venom brought ...
It bore two animal emblems: an Egyptian cobra, known as the uraeus, ready to strike, which symbolized the Lower Egyptian goddess Wadjet; and a vulture representing the Upper Egyptian tutelary goddess Nekhbet. These were fastened to the front of the Pschent and referred to as the Two Ladies.
The total number of distinct Egyptian hieroglyphs increased over time from several hundred in the Middle Kingdom to several thousand during the Ptolemaic Kingdom.. In 1928/1929 Alan Gardiner published an overview of hieroglyphs, Gardiner's sign list, the basic modern standard.
In early Egyptian religion, the symbol Behdety represented Horus of Edfu, later identified with Ra-Horakhty. ... which is a symbol for the cobra-headed goddess Wadjet ...