tree of life noun 1. (in the Bible) a tree in the Garden of Eden whose fruit imparts eternal life (Gen. 3:22–24). 2. the thuj

In Korean boy band, n George Herbert's poem The Sacrifice (part of The Temple, 1633), the Tree of Life is the road on which Jesus Christ was crucified. Music Video MAMA, the twelve forces (EXO's members) will be the one to restore the tree of life.

Rapper Ab-Soul uses the tree of life as the cover of his Control System album

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Ankh

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For the book of H. G. Wells, see Crux Ansata. For other uses, see Ankh (disambiguation).

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Ankhkey of life, the key of the Nileor crux ansata (Latin meaning "cross with a handle"

The ankh (/ˈæŋk/ or /ˈɑːŋk/; Egyptian: IPA: [ʕaːnax]; U+2625 ☥ or U+132F9 𓋹), also known as key of life, the key of the Nileor crux ansata (Latin meaning "cross with a handle"), was the ancient Egyptian hieroglyphic character that read "life", a triliteral sign for the consonants ꜥ-n-ḫ.

It represents the concept of eternal life, which is the general meaning of the symbol.^{[citation needed]} The Egyptian gods are often portrayed carrying it by its loop, or bearing one in each hand, arms crossed over their chest.Origin[edit]

Ankh in hieroglyphs

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The origin of the symbol remains a mystery to Egyptologists, and no single hypothesis has been widely accepted. One of the earliest suggestions is that of Thomas Inman, first published in 1869:

It is by Egyptologists called the symbol of life. It is also called the "handled cross", or crux ansata. It represents the male triad and the female unit, under a decent form. There are few symbols more commonly met with in Egyptian art. In some sculptures, where the sun's rays are represented as terminating in hands, the offerings which these bring are many acrux ansata, emblematic of the truth that a fruitful union is a gift from the deity.^[2]

E. A. Wallis Budge postulated that the symbol originated as the belt buckle of the mother goddess Isis,^[3] an idea joined by Wolfhart Westendorf^{[citation needed]} with the notion that both the ankh and the knot of Isis were used in many ceremonies. Sir Alan Gardinerspeculated that it depicts a sandal strap, which is also written with the ankh hieroglyph.^[4]

Merenptah offering an ankh, djed, and was to Ptah

An ankh-shaped mirror case

In their 2004 book The Quick and the Dead,^[5] Andrew Hunt Gordon and Calvin W. Schwabe speculated that the ankh, djed, and was symbols have a biological basis derived from ancient cattle culture (linked to the Egyptian belief that semen was created in the spine), thus:

• the ankh, symbol of life, thoracic vertebra of a bull (seen in cross section)
• the djed, symbol of stability, base on sacrum of a bull's spine
• the was, symbol of power and dominion, a staff featuring the head and tail of the god Set, "great of strength"

The ankh, during the reign ofHatshepsut (1508–1458 BC), from theRoyal Ontario Museum

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