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Crook and flail
The
crook
(
heka
) and
flail
(
nekhakha
) were originally the attributes of the
Ancient Egyptian
god
Osiris
that became insignia of
pharaonic
authority. The shepherd's crook stood for kingship and the
flail
for the fertility of the land.
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