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Animal Cults	Ankh	Bennu Bird
At many sacred sites, the Egyptians worshipped individual animals which they believed to be manifestations of … Continue Reading >	The Ankh, also known as key of life, the key of the Nile, was the ancient Egyptian hieroglyphic character that read “eternal life”, … Continue Reading >	The Bennu bird serves as the Egyptian correspondence to the phoenix, and is said to be the soul of the Sun-God Ra. According to ancient … Continue Reading >
Black Sun Symbol	Divine Punishment	Double-Headed Eagle
The term Black Sun, also referred to as the Sonnenrad “Sun Wheel”), is a symbol of esoteric or occult significance, notable for its usage in … Continue Reading >	Divine judgment means the judgment of God or other supreme beings within a religion. The concept is prominent in Abrahamic … Continue Reading >	The double-headed eagle is a common symbol in heraldry and vexillology. It is most commonly associated with the Byzantine Empire and the … Continue Reading >
Egyptian Numbers	Egyptian Pyramids	Egyptian Temples
Certain numbers were considered sacred, holy, or magical by the ancient Egyptians, particularly 2, 3, 4, 7, and their multiples and … Continue Reading >	The Egyptian pyramids are ancient pyramid-shaped masonry structures located in Egypt. Most were built as tombs for the country’s … Continue Reading >	Temples existed from the beginning of Egyptian history. They included both mortuary temples to serve the spirits of deceased pharaohs and … Continue Reading >
Eye of Horus	Eye of Providence	False Door
The Eye of Horus is an ancient Egyptian symbol of protection, royal power and good health. The eye is personified in the … Continue Reading >	The Eye of Providence (or the all-seeing eye of God) is a symbol showing an eye often surrounded by rays of light or a glory and usually … Continue Reading >	A false door is a common architectural element in the tombs of Ancient Egypt. The ancient Egyptians believed that the false door was … Continue Reading >
Freemasonry	Ghosts in Egypt	Great Sphinx of Giza
Freemasonry is a fraternal organisation (Secret Society) that arose from obscure origins in the late 16th to early 17th century … Continue Reading >	There was widespread belief in ghosts in ancient Egyptian culture in the sense of the continued existence of the soul and spirit after … Continue Reading >	The Great Sphinx of Giza (The Terrifying One), is a statue of a reclining or couchant sphinx (a mythical creature with a lion’s body … Continue Reading >
Heka (Magic)	Hieroglyphs	Jacob’s Ladder
The word “magic” is used to translate the Egyptian term heka, “the ability to make things happen by indirect means”. Heka … Continue Reading >	Egyptian Hieroglyphs was a formal writing system used by the ancient Egyptians that contained a combination of logographic and alphabetic … Continue Reading >	Jacob’s Ladder is a ladder to heaven, described in the Book of Genesis, that the biblical patriarch Jacob dreams about during his flight from his … Continue Reading >
Lighthouse	Magic Circle	Numerology & Tarot
The Lighthouse of Alexandria, also known as the Pharos of Alexandria, was a tower built between 280 and 247 BC on the island of … Continue Reading >	A magic circle is circle or sphere of space marked out by practitioners of many branches of ritual magic, which they generally … Continue Reading >	Numerology is any of many systems, traditions or beliefs in a mystical or esoteric relationship between numbers and physical objects or … Continue Reading >
Opening the Mouth	Ouroboros	Reincarnation
The Opening of the mouth ceremony (or ritual) was an ancient Egyptian ritual described in funerary texts. The ritual involved the … Continue Reading >	The Ouroboros is an ancient symbol depicting a serpent or dragon eating its own tail. It comes from the Greek words oura meaning “tail” … Continue Reading >	Reincarnation is believed to occur when the soul or spirit, after the death of the body, comes back to life in a newborn body. This … Continue Reading >
Sarcophagus	Senet	Shen Ring
A sarcophagus is a funeral receptacle for a corpse, most commonly carved or cut from stone. The word “sarcophagus” comes from … Continue Reading >	Senet (or Senat) is a board game from predynastic and ancient Egypt. The oldest hieroglyph representing a Senet game dates to circa … Continue Reading >	A shen ring is a circle with a line at a tangent to it, which was represented in hieroglyphs as a stylised loop of a rope. The word shen … Continue Reading >
Solar Barques	Enlightenment	Was Scepter
In Ancient Egypt barques were a type of boat used from Egypt’s earliest recorded times. Transportation to the … Continue Reading >	Enlightenment in a secular context often means the “full comprehension of a situation”, but in spiritual terms the word alludes to … Continue Reading >	The Was (“power, dominion”) Scepter is a symbol that appeared often in relics, art and hieroglyphics associated with the Ancient Egyptian … Continue Reading >
Winged Sun Disk
The winged sun is a symbol associated with divinity, royalty and power in the Ancient Near East (Egypt, Mesopotamia, Anatolia, and … Continue Reading >

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