Ankh Heart Pendant

Wikipedia records that:

The ankh (/æŋk, ɑːŋk/; Egyptian ˁnḫ), also known as "crux ansata" (the Latin for "cross with a handle") is an ancient Egyptian hieroglyphic ideograph symbolizing "life".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).

For thousands of years powerful Egyptians chose this symbol to hold in hand on their way to eternity.   I started this project thinking maybe they know something I don't.

Meditation while making this piece led me to believe that the ankh symbolizes the key to eternal life, which is a technology, a set of practices that make long life possible and desirable.  It seems to me that Eternal life is necessarily sustained by duties worth performing well. These would be centered on the cultivation of the care by which all things are made good, and with which all things are connected.  So I added a heart at the junction of the cross to symbolize that care.  The heart is a double-fibonacci curve, a geometric expression of "complementary correspondance" which I think is the essence of love.

Ankh-180207-02-Pendant-Male-Medium-NOFiboLoop

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