Ankh Pins and Buttons
Description: This Ancient Egyptian inspired design by artist Jeff Bartels features a decorative scarab beetle with large wings. Two oval disks appear at the top and bottom of the pattern with a small ankh symbol in the center of the upper plate. The symmetrical design is decorated with intricate dots and lines which gives the pattern a sophisticated feel. The design is finished with rough textures and natural colors which gives this stylish Egyptian symbol a unique look.
Description: The ankh is an ancient Egyptian hieroglyphic symbol that was most commonly used in writing and in art to represent the word for "life" and, by extension, as a symbol of life itself. Its use continued through the Coptic Egyptians who adapted it as the crux ansata, a variant form of the Christian cross.
Description: The ankh is an ancient Egyptian hieroglyphic symbol that was most commonly used in writing and in art to represent the word for "life" and, by extension, as a symbol of life itself. Its use continued through the Coptic Egyptians who adapted it as the crux ansata, a variant form of the Christian cross.
Description: It represents the concept of eternal life, which is the general meaning of the symbol. [1][citation needed] The Egyptian gods are often portrayed carrying it by its loop, or bearing one in each hand, arms crossed over their chest. The ankh appears in hand or in proximity of almost every deity in the Egyptian pantheon (including Pharaohs). Thus it is fairly and widely understood as a symbol of early religious pluralism: all sects believed in a common story of eternal life, and this is the literal meaning of the symbol. This rationale contributed to the adoption of the ankh by New Age mysticism in the 1960s, to mean essentially the same tolerance of diversity of belief and common ethics as in Ancient Egypt.
Description: In ancient Egypt, ankhs were a kind of key that when completed with a person’s wadjet in the center (like a personalized pin number) opened up the gateways to dimensional portholes in the pyramids and elsewhere. That’s why you see so many Egyptian “immortals” carrying them around. So what if they decorated their walls with common-place objects like we do (keys, crosses, spoons, etc.) made of different materials? That’s what this series of ankhs is all about! ;)
