{"id":304,"date":"2022-02-21T10:40:52","date_gmt":"2022-02-21T10:40:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ancientsymbols.org\/?p=304"},"modified":"2022-02-24T01:23:43","modified_gmt":"2022-02-24T01:23:43","slug":"crook-and-flail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ancientsymbols.org\/crook-and-flail\/","title":{"rendered":"Crook and flail"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft size-full is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ancientsymbols.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/crook-and-flail-Male-Symbols.webp\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2808\" width=\"192\" height=\"213\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ancientsymbols.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/crook-and-flail-Male-Symbols.webp 768w, https:\/\/ancientsymbols.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/crook-and-flail-Male-Symbols-270x300.webp 270w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 192px) 100vw, 192px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The god Osiris is represented by the crook and flail. He was regarded as one of the most powerful gods. He was a fertility god and a god of the underworld. Seth assassinated Osiris. Before Osiris became the god of the underworld, Iris, Osiris&#8217; wife, reassembled him and was able to become pregnant with Horus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Shepherds use the crook to tend to their sheep. Herding goats is done with the flail. The crook denotes monarchy, while the flail symbolizes the land&#8217;s fertility. In ancient Egypt, pharaohs utilized these emblems.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The god Osiris is represented by the crook and flail. He was regarded as one of the most powerful gods. He was a fertility god and a god of the underworld. Seth assassinated Osiris. Before Osiris became the god of the underworld, Iris, Osiris&#8217; wife, reassembled him and was able to become pregnant with Horus. &#8230; <a title=\"Crook and flail\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/ancientsymbols.org\/crook-and-flail\/\" aria-label=\"More on Crook and flail\">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":[42],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ancientsymbols.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304"}],"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=304"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ancientsymbols.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2809,"href":"https:\/\/ancientsymbols.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/304\/revisions\/2809"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ancientsymbols.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ancientsymbols.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ancientsymbols.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}