Ancient Egyptian Crossword Puzzle 01/14/2008
Across | 3 | | A framework of rigid design used as a means of supporting usually either a roof or a bridge (5) | | 6 | | The Sun God (2) | | 8 | | Partisans who believe that Ali should have succeeded to the caliphate and some of his descendants should have inherited that right (4) | | 10 | | A conventional and generic manner of describing the head of a local priesthood (2 wds.) (10) | | 11 | | The Muslim call to prayer (4) | | 12 | | The Sun Disk and later God (4) | | 13 | | The All-Father (4) | | 15 | | God of the Sea (4) | | 17 | | Guardian of the Borders (5) | | 19 | | A tower, usually within a fortified structure (4) | | 20 | | Kindly God of the Desert (2) | | 21 | | A symbol of protection, consisting of an image of a herdsman's roll of papyrus which he used as shelter (2) | | 23 | | From pagan religion, the spirit that inhabits the body during one's life (2) |
| Down | 1 | | God of air and sunlight (3) | | 2 | | Protector of Childbirth (3) | | 3 | | Sign in the script that is placed after the phonograms and indicates the class or area of meaning to which it belongs (8) | | 4 | | Associated with the Goddess Hathor, a sacred rattle device used in her rituals (7) | | 5 | | The part of a cruciform style church which crosses at right angles to the nave (8) | | 7 | | The interior courtyard of a Mosque (4) | | 9 | | Grandmother of the Gods (3) | | 12 | | A semi-circular domed recess, most frequently at the east end of a church (4) | | 14 | | A symbol of kingship in Egypt represented by a cobra in an upright position worn as a head ornament or crown (6) | | 16 | | Tutankhamun's successor (2) | | 18 | | The alternating use of red and white or black and white stone in Arab architecture (5) | | 19 | | A spirit that inhabits the body during life and may leave it in death, but requires the continued existence of the body for its survival (2) | | 22 | | An Arabic word for a holy man or saint from any religion (3) |
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