The Da Vinci Code vocabulary

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ankh
gnomon
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ankh

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according to Egyptian mythology, [...] the emblem of Ka, the spiritual double of man. It was also said to indicate a union of Osiris and Isis, and was regarded as a symbol of the generative principle of nature.

Thomas Wilson. The Swastika (1896)
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during his twenty-year tenure as curator, Sauntiere had helped the Louvre amass the largest collection of goddess art on earth - labrys axes from the priestesses' oldest Greek shrine in Delphi, gold caducei wands, hundres of Tjet ankhs resembling small angels sistrum rattles used in ancient Egypt to dispel evil spirits, and an astonishing array of statues depicting Horus being nursed by the goddess Isis.

Dan Brown. The da Vinci Code, p.23 (2003)
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