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Updated: May 20, 2025
The application of the Ankh, the Egyptian sign for Life, to the nostrils of a newly-created being is no true parallel to the breathing into man's nostrils of the breath of life in the earlier Hebrew Version, except in the sense that each process was suggested by our common human anatomy.
Each of the figures is repeated twice. The rest of the field is occupied by four distinct subjects, two of them being scenes of adoration. Behind the altar stands a personage whose sex is not defined; the right hand, which is raised, holds a patera, while the left, which falls along the hip, has the ankh or crux ansata. Another of the scenes corresponds to this, and offers many striking analogies.
It is called 'Netchemtchem ānkh. Here are the 'Two Qerti, which are the two breasts wherefrom every good thing cometh. Here is the bed of the Nile, here the Nile-god reneweth his youth, and here he sendeth out the flood on the land. Here the Nile-god smiteth the ground with his sandals, and here he draweth the bolts and throweth open the two doors through which the water poureth forth.
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