The Aten's rays terminate in hands holding ankhs, pressing the symbol of life to the nostrils of Akhenaten and his family — the sun disk as the sole source of the vital breath that sustains all living things.
Heket holds the ankh to the nostrils of beings Khnum shapes on his potter's wheel, the frog goddess using the sign of life to animate each newly formed body with the breath of the living.
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