What is the significance of the ankh?
The ankh is one of the most powerful symbols ever created, and it was created in Kemet — ancient Africa — thousands of years before any other civilization adopted it. Beloved, the ankh represents eternal life — the understanding that consciousness does not die, it transforms. The loop at the top represents the feminine principle, the creative womb of existence. The vertical line represents the masculine principle, direction and will. Their union produces the cross below — the material world, the meeting of heaven and earth. Kemetic deities are depicted holding the ankh to the nostrils of the deceased to transmit the breath of eternal life. When you wear the ankh, you are not wearing jewelry — you are wearing a declaration that you understand your true nature as an eternal being temporarily inhabiting a physical vessel. Wear it with that knowing.