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Egyptian cobra symbol of the pharaoh

Egyptian cobra symbol of the pharaoh

Egyptian cobra

 When you visit the Egyptian Museum in Giza and see the statues of kings displayed in the museum, you will always see on the front of the kings (the Egyptian cobra snake) decorating the royal head in order to protect the king from evil and defend him against the enemies, and the cobra was shown writhing and wrapping on the king’s front and the meaning of its presence in this place on the front is that it All the enemies of Egypt threaten to approach it or from the king who always appears wearing a short kilt around his waist, as he was also interested in shaving his hair and chin. However, ancient Egyptian traditions made him wear a long false chin

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The existing inscriptions show us two types of images of this snake, one of which shows the sun disk with a cobra and its head crossed through the sign of "Ankh", which is the key to life, and the other in which it advances on a falcon of Horus wearing the double crown of a united, cohesive Egypt

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And the cobra is the patron and protector. She took (Wajit), and this is her name, the role of the garrison of Ra

And also her first visualization was in the pre-dynastic era, in which she appears in the form of a cobra wrapped around the stalk of the papyrus plant, which is the shape in which she appeared so that she was called "Hermes' scepter"

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The ancient Egyptian believed that the (Milky Way) is nothing but a snake that strives in the sky, and because it was spitting poison in the eyes of its enemies it was called (“The Lady of Flame”) and was also associated with the war gods in Lower Egypt known as “Bastet”, which was symbolized by it. With "the lioness", and although (Sekhmet) was the goddess of vengeance, she was described as one of the bloodsucking thugs, she was depicted with the sun disk on her head, and the snake Queen "Wajit" adorned her forehead as well. The wife of "Habi", the god of the Nile, too



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It is known that the Egyptian cobra usually lives in dry, humid areas, savannahs and semi-desert areas where there is little water and little vegetation cover, and it rarely lives in hot desert areas

Cobra spreads in Africa


Additional information: The Egyptian cobra is a true cobra snake found on the continent of Africa. It grows to between 1.6 and 2.3 meters in length. One of the characteristics of the Egyptian cobra is its large head, wide eyes, many colors, and many times it has light or dark spots, and it is often a sign

 (Tear drop) under the eye

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