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Ancient Egyptian Crossword Puzzle 04/21/2008
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Across
2 Queen of the Gods (4)
5 A walled monastery (4)
8 Kindly God of the Desert (2)
9 Lion-headed War Goddess (6)
11 Common housing such as an apartment house (3)
12 The Child God (3)
14 From pagan religion, the spirit that inhabits the body during one's life (2)
15 A large block of stone (8)
18 God of the Sea (4)
20 A house, or the self contained apartments into which Ummayed mansions and Abbasid palaces were divided (4)
22 An aspect of the sun god Ra (3)
23 Guardian of the Borders (5)
25 The Perceptive Mind (3)
26 Grandmother of the Gods (3)
Down
1 The tower from which the muezzin cries the call to prayer (7)
3 A symbol of protection, consisting of an image of a herdsmans roll of papyrus which he used as shelter (2)
4 A title which was originally adopted by the rulers of the Islamic world, but later used by many regional rulers (6)
5 An Islamic house or mansion (3)
6 The official seat, center of authority, jurisdiction, or office of a bishop (3)
7 The Dominant Male Baboon God (4)
10 A public or private bath (5)
13 God of Magic and Medicine (4)
14 A Turkish title of governors, high- ranking army officers or powerful civilians (3)
16 A Mother of Osiris (3)
17 God of the Spoken Word (2)
19 Tutankhamun's successor (2)
20 Protector of Childbirth (3)
21 Northern Aqaba beach resort (4)
24 A religious leader in a community (4)
25 God of chaos and confusion (3)


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