| 单词 | crux ansata |
| 释义 | > as lemmascrux ansata 1. = cross n., in heraldic and other expressions. crux ansata = tau n. 1b (see quot. 1930). ΘΚΠ society > communication > representation > physical representation of abstraction > symbolizing > [noun] > a symbol > specific symbols > ankh tau1785 crux ansata1841 ankh1861 ansata1868 1841 J. G. Wilkinson Manners & Customs Anc. Egyptians 2nd Ser. I. xiii. 341 The sign of life (or crux ansata) was compelled to submit to the unintelligible name of ‘Key of the Nile’. 1896 T. Wilson Swastika 766 The Crux Ansata..according to Egyptian mythology, was Ankh, the emblem of Ka, the spiritual double of man. 1930 E. A. T. W. Budge Amulets & Superstit. xviii. 340 It is wrong, too, to call the sign ☥, crux ansata, the ‘handled cross’, for whatever object the hieroglyph may represent, it was certainly not a cross or anything like it. < as lemmas |
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