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Sacred Magic Of Ancient Egypt: The Spiritual Practice Restored

The symbol (winged Solar disc) is derived from the legendary tale Heru and the Winged Disc, inscribed on the walls of the Edfu temple. In this saga, the young god as paraoh battles his adversaries and takes the from of the winged disc to dispel them. The two cobras on either side of the icon present Auset and Nebt-Het, who accompany him on his quest and offer protection. Thus, the symbol is used for apotropaic effect as well as an indicator over chamber entries of the Solar axis in the temple.
Quoted from the pages 55-56 of the book Sacred Magic Of Ancient Egypt: The Spiritual Practice Restored by Rosemary Clark

It (the winged disc) first appears in Egypt in very early times (3rd millennium B.C.) purely as a solar symbol. It was considered a symbol of power and royalty and was adopted by a large number of people. In egypt the winged sun-disc with uraeus symbolised Egyptian royalty and signified the triumph of right over wrong.
Quoted from the page 23 of the book The Language of the Harappans by Malati J. Shendge

The Winged Sun and the Halo

Assyrian Winged Sun Disc

The Battle Between the Moon and Sun

The domination of the divine world by the sun was reflected by changes in the symbols for the sun. The winged sun disc had originally symbolized the whole of the heavens or the firmament. By the 14th or 13th century BCE the Syrians, major sun worshippers, used this symbol to represent only the sun and, thus, its supremacy over the whole firmament. This new meaning then spread rapidly throughout the Ancient Near East.

The symbol of the plain sun disc also gained great prominence and was used to signify dominance. In Assyria the solar disc of Shamash was given to Assur, the state god, to express his dominant position in the pantheon. The sun disc was also shown behind the heads and shoulders of Mesopotamian and Egyptian solar deities, when they changed from animal or semi-human form to human form. This depiction gave rise to the modern halo, which symbolizes all holiness.
Quoted from the page 63 of the book The Battle Between the Moon and Sun: The Separation of Women’s Bodies from the Cosmic Dance by Jenny Kien

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Winged Sun Disc of the Hittites

Lost Cities of Atlantis, Ancient Europe & the Mediterranean

Just as Egypt goes back many thousands of years B.C. and is ultimately connected to Atlantis, so does the ancient Hittite empire. Like the Egyptians, the Hittites carved massive granite sphinxes, built on a cyclopean scale, and worshipped the Sun. The Hittites also used the common motif of a winged disc for their Sun God, just as the Egyptians did. The Hittites were well known in the ancient world, because they were the main manufacturer of iron and bronze goods. The Hittites were metallurgists and seafarers.

In many ways the Hittites and the Egyptians were the last holdovers from the civilizations that arose right after the “flood” and the time of Atlantis.
Quoted from the page 60 of the book Lost Cities of Atlantis, Ancient Europe & the Mediterranean by David Hatcher Childress

From the Movie: Alpha Dog

An interpretation of the winged sun disk…

Today, I was watching the movie, Alpha Dog. Justin Timberlake’s T-Shirt surprised me. When I saw it, immediately I’m reminded the winged sun disc…

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During earlier periods of Egyptian history the Bennu (Phoenix) name was associated with various birds: the crane, the heron, the stork or the flamingo and was usually depicted as a heron, but also as a peacock or an eagle in classic literature. The Bennu, an imaginary bird, later became more clearly identified with the heron with its long straight back and head adorned at the back with two long erect feathers on the crest of it’s head and was often crowned with the Atef crown of Osiris (the White Crown with two ostrich plumes on either side) or with the disk of the sun.

The name of the phoenix means a god of Phoenicia. The original “bird” was probably the horned, winged sun disc, which resembled that of Egypt but appeared more birdlike in Mesopotamian iconography. It was the sun who flew on wings through heaven and was constantly immolated and reborn from the fires of sunset and sunrise. Egypt’s phoenix was sometimes identified with the Bennu bird, a heron sacred to Osiris, symbolizing both the human soul and the god’s cycle of rebirth and resurrection. Sometimes the bird represented the morning star.
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