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Hedjet (Ancient Egyptian: 𓌉𓏏𓋑, romanized: ḥḏt, 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.
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 ...
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 ...
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Also apophthegm. A terse, pithy saying, akin to a proverb, maxim, or aphorism. aposiopesis A rhetorical device in which speech is broken off abruptly and the sentence is left unfinished. apostrophe A figure of speech in which a speaker breaks off from addressing the audience (e.g., in a play) and directs speech to a third party such as an opposing litigant or some other individual, sometimes ...
A kenning (Old English kenning [cʰɛnːiŋɡ], Modern Icelandic [cʰɛnːiŋk]) is a circumlocution, an ambiguous or roundabout figure of speech, used instead of an ordinary noun in Old Norse, Old English, and later Icelandic poetry.
The Red Crown frequently is mentioned in texts and depicted in reliefs and statues. An early example is the depiction of the victorious pharaoh wearing the deshret on the Narmer Palette. A label from the reign of Djer records a royal visit to the shrine of the Deshret which may have been located at Buto in the Nile delta. [5]
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