Egyptian

Egyptian symbols and meanings

Life, kingship, and the eye that was broken and returned.

6 marks in the lexicon. A symbol can sit in more than one tradition. The page says which use is which.

• OuroborosThe serpent that eats itself, and so has no outside.
• AnkhLife held out as a gift, often to the nostrils.
• Eye of HorusAn eye taken apart, restored, and used as a measure.
• LotusWhat rises clean from the mud it grew in.
• PhoenixA bird that burns and is the same bird after.
• Eye of RaThe sun’s eye, which leaves in fury and has to be brought back.