Tat
(Eg.)
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”. (TG).
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- Quotes: H. P. Blavatsky
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