Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Svalinn, a shield which stands before the sun and protects Earth from burning. If the shield were to fall from its frontal position, the mountains and seas would burn up. (Norse mythology) Dubán, the shield of Cú Chulainn. (Irish mythology) Han Feizi's shield, from a Chinese parable that tells of a man who was trying to sell a spear and a ...
A seal consisting of a Manji, Star of David, Ankh, Om, and Ouroboros, used by the Theosophical Society, an organization formed in 1875 to advance Theosophy. Septenary Sigil. Order of Nine Angles. The main symbol of the Order of Nine Angles, a neo-Nazi Satanic and Left-hand occult group based in the United Kingdom.
The ankh has a T-shape topped by a droplet -shaped loop. The ankh or key of life is an ancient Egyptian hieroglyphic symbol used to represent the word for "life" and, by extension, as a symbol of life itself. The ankh has a T-shape topped by a droplet -shaped loop. It was used in writing as a triliteral sign, representing a sequence of three ...
Merneith, a woman who served as consort and regent of Ancient Egypt and who may have ruled in her own right during the first dynasty. Neith (wife of Pepi II) and the mother of another king of Ancient Egypt, perhaps Nemtyemsaf II. Meryneith, official and priest of the New Kingdom.
Enki (Sumerian: 𒀭𒂗𒆠 D EN-KI) is the Sumerian god of water, knowledge (gestú), crafts (gašam), and creation (nudimmud), and one of the Anunnaki. He was later known as Ea (Akkadian: 𒀭𒂍𒀀) or Ae[5] in Akkadian (Assyrian - Babylonian) religion, and is identified by some scholars with Ia in Canaanite religion. The name was ...
Description. It is a deciduous tree growing to 15–25 m (rarely up to 50 m) tall, with a trunk diameter of up to 1 m belonging to Family Leguminosae and sub-family Caesalpiniaceaea. The leaves are bipinnate, 30–60 cm long, with 16–20 pinnae, each pinna with 20–40 oval leaflets 8–25 mm long and 4–10 mm broad.
The djed, an ancient Egyptian symbol meaning 'stability', is the symbolic backbone of the god Osiris. The djed, also djt (Ancient Egyptian: ḏd 𓊽, Coptic ϫⲱⲧjōt "pillar", anglicized /dʒɛd/) [ 1 ] is one of the more ancient and commonly found symbols in ancient Egyptian religion. It is a pillar -like symbol in Egyptian hieroglyphs ...
Cad Goddeu (Middle Welsh: Kat Godeu, English: The Battle of the Trees) is a medieval Welsh poem preserved in the 14th-century manuscript known as the Book of Taliesin. The poem refers to a traditional story in which the legendary enchanter Gwydion animates the trees of the forest to fight as his army.