He was the source of that divine life, of which the crux ansata is the symbol; and the source of all power.
The Crux Ansata was a Cross with a coiled Serpent above it; and it is perhaps the most common of all emblems on the Egyptian Monuments, carried in the hand of almost every figure of a Deity or a Priest.
Thoth or Phtha is represented on the oldest monuments carrying in his hand the Crux Ansata, or Ankh, [a Tau cross, with a ring or circle over it].
The Crux Ansata is found on the sculptures of Khorsabad; on the ivories from Nimroud, of the same age, carried by an Assyrian Monarch; and on cylinders of the later Assyrian period.
It is also called the 'handled cross,' or crux ansata.
It is a crux ansata formed by four phalli, with a circle of female organs round the centre; and appears by the look to have been intended for suspension.
In some remarkable sculptures, where the sun's rays are represented as terminating in hands, the offerings which these bring are many a crux ansata, emblematic of the truth that a fruitful union is a gift from the deity.
The name that it technically bears is crux ansata, or "the cross with a handle.
The real talismanic cross of the countries stretching from Persia to Lybia is the crux ansata, the key of life of the Egyptian monuments.
The symbolic signification of the tau is explained by its resemblance to the Key of Life, or crux ansata of Egypt, so widely diffused throughout all Western Asia.
He is represented on Egyptian monuments, seated on his throne of judgment, bearing a staff, and carrying the crux ansata, or cross with a handle.
When the Saviour Osiris is represented holding out the crux ansata to a mortal, it signifies that the person to whom he presents it has put off mortality, and entered on the life to come.
Thus, beside one of the Christian inscriptions at Phile (a celebrated island lying in the midst of the Nile) is seen both a Maltese cross and a crux ansata.
Crux ansata, an emblem of the Ka or vitality, 118.
Passing on to Africa and a consideration of the crux ansata or so-called 'Key of the Nile,' we find that this variety of cross had much the same significance attached to it by the ancients as had the more widely accepted varieties.
The drops are in nearly all cases long, and they frequently have a cross piece which gives them the general appearance of a "crux ansata.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "crux ansata" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
