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Ancient Egyptian Crossword Puzzle 05/07/2007
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Across
4 Kindly God of the Desert (2)
5 The Child God (3)
7 A building where a Sufi sheikh receives his brotherhood (6)
8 Devourer of Millions (5)
10 Small devices, often arches placed in the corners of a square building to support a dome (9)
13 A horse drawn carriage (7)
17 Deity of Darkness, Obscurity and Night (3)
19 An Arabic word for a holy man or saint from any religion (3)
21 God of air and sunlight (3)
Down
1 The heraldic plant of Lower Egypt (7)
2 A council Chamber (2 wds.) (9)
3 Supreme Council of Antiquities chairman (6)
6 Another Moon God (3)
7 Used as decorations on astronomical ceilings of tombs, temples and coffin lids (6)
9 The pilgrimage to Mecca by a Muslim (4)
11 The main area of a church, usually flanked by aisles (4)
12 The Border Patrol God (6)
14 Tutankhamun's successor (2)
15 A Mother of Osiris (3)
16 Second intermediate period enemy (6)
18 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)
20 From pagan religion, the spirit that inhabits the body during one's life (2)
22 God of the Spoken Word (2)


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