Ancient Egypt was the richest with its unique
symbols and that is what researchers can come with once looking at the Egyptian
carvings. Some of the ancient Egyptian symbols were by nature inspired from the
Hieroglyphic characters and some were created to become emblems for gods or
kings.
The figure above(F-1)
represents one of the two matching sides for king Tutankhamen gold- plated
throne which dates back to (1400-1300 B.C) Just one look at that unique carving
is more than enough to stun anyone and obviously it represents a winged cobra
snake with the double crown on it’s head ! This is exactly what most of
visitors to the Egyptian museum can tell! But actually the meaning is further
deep and a lot more beyond imagination!? .
Taking a moment of deep
concentration at the same figure leads to uncover another unification symbol
for ancient Egypt
as you can see below the double crown two heads are integrated with each other.
A very obvious head for a cobra snake while facing the left side and another head
in the shape of a vulture faces the other direction! Here we can imagine how
genius the artist was in order to create such head that can refer to different
creatures at once. Now that symbol which
has a hidden significance and almost unnoticed by many , gathers between Lower
Egypt patroness the cobra snake Uadjet and the Upper Egyptian patroness the
vulture Nekhbet and both have some of their distinctive features represented
such as wings ,tale and so on. Painted and written by Yasser kamel for
Museumegypt.2006
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