Ankh

Holding the ankh to the god meant, 'I bestow life upon the god'; or the gods held the sign before the king, meaning that they bestowed life on the king. So that sign means generative power.

Jung interprets the ankh as the primary symbol of generative and creative power, operating as a reciprocal transfer of life-force between deity and mortal, and identifies its structure with the rhythmic systole-diastole movement of psychic energy.

Jung, C.G., Dream Analysis: Notes of the Seminar Given in 1928-1930, 1984thesis

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Tum of Pithum-Heroopolis not only carries the crux ansata as a symbol, but even has this emblem as the commonest of his titles, ankh or ankhi, which means 'life' or the 'Living One.'

Jung establishes the ankh's etymological and mythological ground by tying it to the solar deity Tum/Atum, whose very title is the sign itself, placing the symbol within the mother-rebirth complex and the tree-of-life symbolism.

Jung, Carl Gustav, Symbols of Transformation, 1952thesis

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The three deities all hold the ankh (symbol of life). The inscription says: 'Bait is one, Hathor one, Akori one, one is their power. Greetings, Father of the World, greetings, three-formed God.'

Jung cites a Hellenistic amulet in which a triad of deities each bearing the ankh anticipates the Christian Trinity, demonstrating the ankh's function as a symbol of unified divine life-power within the alchemical-theological tradition.

Jung, Carl Gustav, Mysterium Coniunctionis: An Inquiry into the Separation and Synthesis of Psychic Opposites in Alchemy, 1955supporting

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The Initiated Adept was attached, not nailed, to the cross and left for three days in the Pyramid of Cheops. On the morning of the third day he was carried 'to the entrance of a gallery, where at a certain hour the beams of the rising sun struck full in the face of the entranced Candidate.'

Jung contextualizes the Egyptian cross forms—including the ankh's cruciform structure—within initiatory mysteries linking solar resurrection, the Tau cross, and the rites of death and rebirth.

Jung, C.G., Dream Analysis: Notes of the Seminar Given in 1928-1930, 1984supporting

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