DJR Visuals | Digital Multimedia Art on Instagram: "Ankh | The Key Of Life In the old desert kingdoms, they said life had a shape. It was not a circle, not a line, but a cross crowned with a loop. The ankh. Pharaohs held it to their lips in carvings, as if being fed breath by the gods. The top loop spoke of eternity, the stem of spirit descending into matter, the arms of the meeting between seen and unseen. It opened no doors of stone, only the doorway between worlds. Those who understood knew: