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Definition:Defn: An instrument consisting of a thin metal frame, through which passed a number of metal rods, and furnished with a handle by which it was shaken and made to rattle. It was peculiarly Egyptian, and used especially in the worship of Isis. It is still used in Nubia.Noah Webster. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
image: By Abu_Simbel_Nefartari_Sistrum.jpg: Laban66derivative work: Oltau (talk) - CC0,photo: By Yair Haklai - Own work, CC BY-SA 3.0, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=8053546sound effect: by memexikon, CC0.
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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, hundreds 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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