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Hedjet (Ancient Egyptian: ๐๐๐, romanized: แธฅแธt, 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.
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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 ...
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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 ...
The association of Nekhbet with the queen stemmed from the vulture's symbolism of motherhood; the hieroglyph for the vulture, mwt, was used to write the word for "mother". [6] Because Nekhbet was a protector goddess, the queen's affiliation with her complemented the king's role as the embodiment of the falcon god Horus .
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: ๐ฟ๐๐๐, romanized: ๊ฃtf) 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.