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== H. P. Blavatsky == | == [[Blavatsky, Helena Petrovna|H. P. Blavatsky]] == | ||
'''{{Style S-Small capitals|Tat}}'''. An Egyptian symbol: an upright round standard tapering toward the summit, with four cross‐ pieces placed on the top. It was used as an amulet. The top part is a regular equilateral cross. This, on its phallic basis, represented the two principles of creation, the male and the female, and related to nature and cosmos ; but when the tat stood by itself, crowned with the ''atf ('' or ''atef '' '')'', the triple crown of Horus — two feathers with the uræus in front — it represented the ''septenary'' man ; the cross, or the two cross‐pieces, standing for the lower quaternary, and the ''atf ''for the higher triad. As Dr. Birch well remarks: “The four horizontal bars . . . represent the four foundations of all things, the tat being an emblem of stability”. | '''{{Style S-Small capitals|Tat}}'''. An Egyptian symbol: an upright round standard tapering toward the summit, with four cross‐ pieces placed on the top. It was used as an amulet. The top part is a regular equilateral cross. This, on its phallic basis, represented the two principles of creation, the male and the female, and related to nature and cosmos ; but when the tat stood by itself, crowned with the ''atf ('' or ''atef '' '')'', the triple crown of Horus — two feathers with the uræus in front — it represented the ''septenary'' man ; the cross, or the two cross‐pieces, standing for the lower quaternary, and the ''atf ''for the higher triad. As Dr. Birch well remarks: “The four horizontal bars . . . represent the four foundations of all things, the tat being an emblem of stability”. | ||
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