Egyptian Symbols?

Question

what are some things that symbolize ancient egypt?
like the gods artifacts pharoas land structures?? etc

Answer 1

it is my second time to answer this question , but it is OK


FOR FEMALES:-
Isis (Osiris wife and goddess of magic and housekeeping)
Hathour (goddess of love , music and dancing)
Nefertari ( a queen it means the beauty)
Nefertiti ( a queen means the beauty of the beauty)
Boto (upper Egypt Goddess)
nekhpet( lower Egypt goddess)
Bes ( a cat goddess)
Sekhmet( a lioness goddess)
Cleopatra ( a Ptolemaic queen)
Hatsheput ( a queen)
Merit ( a queen)

FOR MALES:
Ramses ( a king)
Tut ankh amon (who ignores him?!)
Osiris ( god of herafter and protector of kings)
Amon Raa' ( god of the sun)
Horus ( Osiris and Isis son and god of the youth)
betah ( another name for Osiris)
hapi ( god of the river Nile he had a hermaphrodite nature both m and f)
Set (god of evil, Osiris brother)
Ikhnaton ( the 1st king to believe in one god)
Khufu , khafraa' , manukarra' ( the pyramid kings)
Ahmus ( who beated the Asian heksus)
Mina ( who united upper and lower Egypt)

that is enough i hope u make the best use of those names



I used to wear an ancient Egyptian symbol which is the life key but i took it off as it looks like a cross and i am not veiled or scarfed which made lots think i am a Christian!

Answer 2

The Pyramids are probably the most well known symbol of ancient Egypt.
Hieroglyphics are literally symbols of ancient Egypt.
Sphinx
Nile River
King Ramses II
Queen Nefertiti
Cleopatra
Mummies/carcophagus


Some gods that are very common: Anubis, Ra, Hathor, Isis, Osiris

Answer 3

The papyrus flower alongside the lotus flower. The key of life. The eye of Horus. The cobra and the vulture side by side. The scarab. The scribe. The sun disc. the pyramids. The sphinx. The step pyramid. Camels near the pyramids. the mask of Tut Ankh Amun. the coffins of tut Ankh Amun. The solar boats. Mummies. Obelisks. Sun disc with wings. This is to say the least.

Answer 4

The ancient Egyptians held great faith in natural and man made symbol's.
It entered almost every aspect of their daily lives and of coarse their belief in their creation myth and the afterlife, their Gods and Goddesses and the associated mythology.
The pyramids were symbols of the ben ben, the primal mound from which they believed all life came, including their Gods and Goddess.
Egyptian mythology is full of symbols and the symbolic.
The sun symbolised the power of Ra' who traversed the sky each day giving light and life to all things.At night he entered the umduat, and during the 12 hours of night he fought many battles and defeated the great serpent in order to rise triumphantly again with the dawn.It was the hope of every ancient Egyptian that after death he would be worthy to sail in this barque with the Gods.
In life the Pharaoh was the living image of Ra',in death he represented Osiris the God of the underworld, death and resurrection.The beard of the Pharoah when depicted as straight,symbolises him in life,when curled up at the end it indicated he was shown after his death.
Osiris is one of the major Gods he represents or symbolizes agriculture, as he is the god of death and ressurection.
His brother Set, represented chaos and disorder and negative power.
Isis, the sister/wife of Osiris symbolised motherhood in her aspect as Hathor the cow headed Goddess.She was also the protector of the living and the dead, and a powerful magician. Isis has more aspects to her than any of the other Gods or Goddesses.
Horus, the son of Isis and Osiris is a protector God, and fought many battles against his uncle to avenge the murder of his father Osiris.
In one of the battles he lost his left eye, which has become a potent symbol of protection as the Upchat, or eye of Horus.
The Gods and Goddesses are all represented by their individual symbols.
This is one way that we can decipher through hieroglyphics which aspect of the God or Goddess is being referred to in wall reliefs,carvings and papyri written in hieroglyphs.
The Gods and Goddesses could have various aspects of power attributed to them.
Many of the hieroglyphs are symbols,it is by using them and the hieroglyphic alphabet, plus the various determinative's that we can begin to understand the wealth of information that has been left for us.
The Ankh being a symbol of life, is known as the key of life.
The Scarab represents regeneration and acheivement through determination. As it was thought to self reproduce through the ball of dung it labouriosly rolled along the ground.
The Djed or pillar was representative of the stability and power of Osiris
The arrival of the Nile's annual inundation was symbolic of the benevolent power of the gods and their pleasure with the Pharaoh's rule.
Almost every aspect of Egyptology is filled with allusions to symbolics.
There is symbology found in reference to mountains,valleys, animals,birds,the stars and the phases of the moon,the list is almost endless.

Answer 5

why don't you go find out for yourself we did and had a fantastic time nothing like we expected, learn't a lot more than what we read up on. you can not explain the feeling and the smells of Egypt, wonderfull country, try the myegypt.co.uk site we went with them and are going back again next christmas, there are also some good links on it for egypyian history web sites.