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Hedjet (Ancient Egyptian: πππ, romanized: αΈ₯αΈt, lit. 'White One') is the White Crown of pharaonic Upper Egypt . After the unification of Upper and Lower Egypt , it was combined with the Deshret , the Red Crown of Lower Egypt , to form the Pschent , the double crown of Egypt.
It combined the White Hedjet Crown of Upper Egypt and the Red Deshret Crown of Lower Egypt. The Pschent represented the pharaoh 's power over all of unified Egypt. [ 2 ] 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 ...
Aani; Abtu; Ankh; Atef; Atet; Book of Thoth; Cartouche; Corn mummy; Crook and flail; Deshret; Djed; Egyptian obelisk; Egyptian pool; Eye of Horus; Eye of Ra; Griffin ...
Some Egyptologists have speculated that the Hedjet was made out of leather, felt, or some other fabric. [14] Another possibility is that it was woven like a basket, as the Deshret (Red crown) is known to have been, of plant fiber. A Hedjet with Nekhbet the Vulture goddess next to the head of the cobra goddess is the symbol used to represent the ...
Satis was usually pictured as a woman in a sheath dress wearing the hedjet, the conical crown of Upper Egypt, with antelope horns. [9] She is sometimes depicted with bow and arrows; holding an ankh or scepter; or offering jars of purifying water. She also appears in the form of an antelope. Her symbols were the arrow and the running river.
A crown is often, by extension, a symbol of the monarch's government or items endorsed by it. The word itself is used, particularly in Commonwealth countries, as an abstract name for the monarchy itself (and, by extension, the state of which said monarch is head) as distinct from the individual who inhabits it (that is, The Crown ).
Atef (Ancient Egyptian: πΏπππ, romanized: κ£tf) is the specific feathered white crown of the ancient Egyptian deity Osiris.It combines the Hedjet, the white crown of Upper Egypt, with curly ostrich feathers on each side of the crown for the Osiris cult.
Its meaning is "united with the white crown". The White Crown was one part of the Double Crown of Egypt and is usually interpreted to have represented Upper Egypt , but it is also possible that while the Red Crown represented the king's earthly incarnation, the White Crown represented the eternal, godlike aspect of kingship.