It is not improbable that the rattling of the sistrum by the priests of Isis, or the moon, may be in some way or other connected with this practice, or have even been its origin.
Many cat idols are still preserved in the cabinets of the curious, and the sistrum or rattle used by the priests of Isis is generally ornamented with the figure of a cat with a crescent on its head.
Projecting blades, like celts, on the large end, as in the sistrum in Figs.
Beneath the bowl of the sistrum are three projecting cruciform bars, and the upper edge of the bowl is ornamented on each side with two heads very rudely cast.
The sistrumis ornamented with a full-length human figure, holding a staff in right hand and the so-called key or axe in left hand.
A female with pointed head-dress, and coral choker, badge of rank; striking a sistrum with a rod.
Sistrum in brass, representing two cups, the lower one ornamented with a figure holding a ball.
Crotals are attached to the sistrum on both sides.
He brought a horse in his right hand, a sistrum in his left, a sistrum of gold and lapis lazuli.
Next to the drummers came the sistrum players, who shook their instruments with sharp, quick movements, and at regular intervals made the metal rings sound upon the four bronze bars.
A maker of musical instruments could certainly make a harp, a lyre, or a sistrum from the pattern of those upon which are playing the female musicians at the funeral repast represented in one of the tombs of the necropolis of Thebes.
About the steps are priests and other worshippers, shaking the sistrum and offering prayer; in front stands a burning altar.
Her blue eyes, filled with tears, were fixed on the sistrum which her weak, emaciated hands had hardly strength to hold.
Tachot looked at him earnestly before taking the golden sistrum from his hands, and then said, in a low voice, which only he could understand: "Are you Bartja?
Suddenly the color left her face, she turned deadly pale, and the goldensistrum fell on to the stone pavement with a clang, close to Bartja's feet.
Tachot seemed to notice this, for she raised her eyes from the sistrum and looked kindly and gratefully at the crowd.
He gave me mysistrum again, and said he was my friend, and then he took my lotus-bud and vanished.
Ameni took the holy Sistrum [A rattling metal instrument used by the Egyptians in the service of the Gods.
Plutarch describes it correctly, thus: "The Sistrum is rounded above, and the loop holds the four bars which are shaken.
On the bend of the Sistrum they often set the head of a cat with a human face.
They could hear the ringing of the sistrum bells and the murmuring chant of the priests.
The hierarch was now summoned by the sound of a sistrum to enter the temple, with which his palace communicated--it being the hour of evening prayer and oblation.
The sistrum sounded as the incense rose, and every man of that vast host bent his knee for a moment!
On an obelisk, now old, the daughter of Cheops is represented holding the sistrum while the king is sacrificing to Thoth.
In ancient times so great was the privilege of holding the sacred sistrum in the temple, it was given to the queens; and on great occasions Amense has performed this high office.
They possessed an extensive variety of instruments, from the little tinkling sistrum up to the profusely ornamented harp of twelve or thirteen strings, which towered above the performer.
When the sistrum was shaken the curved ends of the rods came into violent contact with the sides of the frame and produced a metallic clang.
The sistrum was used by the Egyptians in their religious rites, and particularly in the worship of Isis.
This notion so pleased the Egyptian fancy that architects did not hesitate to combine the sistrum design with elements borrowed from other orders.
Can you forget the reedy pipes, the cymbals and the songs; The sun upon the desert like a targe; The shaking of the sistrum and the beating of the gongs; The fury of the spear-thrust in the charge?
Then while all watched, in the midst of a great silence, Ayesha rose, cast down her sistrum sceptre that rang upon the rocky floor, and stretched out her arms towards him.
We could hear the distant tinkle of the sistrum bells, the only sound in all that place, yes, and see her lips move, though no whisper reached us from them.
Without speaking, the Hesea pointed with her sistrum to the Defender, who thereon broke the seal of his book and began to read.
Now she lifted the sistrum that she held, and in obedience to the signal Oros said--"Let the books be opened.
Her naked arms were bare of ornament, and in her right hand she held the jewelled sistrum set with its gems and bells.
Figures 70, 71, represent the shape of the sistrum of Isis, the fruit of the fig, and the yoni.
The bars across the sistrum show that it denotes a pure virgin (see Ancient Faiths, second edition, Vol.
Diana of the Ephesians is depicted as having a body of the exact shape of the sistrum figured in Payne Knight's work on the remains of the worship of Priapus, etc.
Another symbol, the caduceus, older than Greek and Roman art, in which it is associated with Esculapius and Hermes, the gods of health and fertility, has precisely the same signification as the sistrum and the lingam.
It represents the ancientsistrum of Isis, and the yoni of the Hindoos.
The mystic door is also barred, like the Egyptian sistrum carried by the priestesses of Isis, to represent the inviolable purity and eternal perfection which were associated with the idea of divinity.
Figure 62 represents one of the forms assumed by the sistrum of Isis.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sistrum" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
