{"id":126,"date":"2022-02-18T14:13:35","date_gmt":"2022-02-18T14:13:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ancientsymbols.org\/?p=126"},"modified":"2023-01-11T17:55:52","modified_gmt":"2023-01-11T17:55:52","slug":"ankh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ancientsymbols.org\/ankh\/","title":{"rendered":"Ankh"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"279\" height=\"181\" src=\"https:\/\/ancientsymbols.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Ankh-Egyptian-symbol.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2644\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p>Symbol of inexhaustible life. The gods are frequently depicted holding an ankh to someone&#8217;s lips, which is thought to be a gift of &#8220;The Breath of Life.&#8221; You&#8217;ll need this breath in the hereafter.<br>The Ankh appears frequently in Egyptian tomb paintings and other art, commonly at the fingertips of a god or goddess in pictures depicting the afterlife&#8217;s deities bestowing the gift of life on the mummy of a deceased person; this is supposed to symbolise the act of conception. Furthermore, Egyptians frequently wore an ankh as an amulet, either alone or in combination with two other hieroglyphs that meant &#8220;strength&#8221; and &#8220;health.&#8221; Mirrors constructed of beaten metal in the shape of an ankh were also used, either for ornamental purposes or to represent an imagined vision into another world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br>As a sun-symbol, the Egyptians almost always created notable specimens of the ankh (for tombs or other uses) from gold, the metal they most identified with the sun. A similar metal, such as copper, with a high luster, was also employed on occasion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Symbol of inexhaustible life. The gods are frequently depicted holding an ankh to someone&#8217;s lips, which is thought to be a gift of &#8220;The Breath of Life.&#8221; You&#8217;ll need this breath in the hereafter.The Ankh appears frequently in Egyptian tomb paintings and other art, commonly at the fingertips of a god or goddess in pictures &#8230; <a title=\"Ankh\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/ancientsymbols.org\/ankh\/\" aria-label=\"More on Ankh\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,52,56,58,62,70],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ancientsymbols.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ancientsymbols.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ancientsymbols.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ancientsymbols.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ancientsymbols.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/ancientsymbols.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5430,"href":"https:\/\/ancientsymbols.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126\/revisions\/5430"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ancientsymbols.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ancientsymbols.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ancientsymbols.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}