Tree Symbols

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Painting from the tomb of Thutmose III (1457-1424 B.C.), in the Valley of the Kings. The image shows the pharaoh while suckled by the goddess Isis, represented in the shape of an anthropomorphic tree. The human elements of the goddess are roughly schematized and are reduced to the bosom, from which the king is fed, and one arm. Isis’s maternal role, suckling her son Horus, was thus transferred on the pharaoh regarded as the incarnation of Horus himself.

[Image: http://www.egiptologia.com/arte/104-obras-en-detalle/2517-nut-arborea-en-la-tumba-de-sennedyem.html]