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- noun Plural form of
uraeus .
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Examples
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The drawing showed the sun between two falcons, and the head of a god with and Egyptian crown containing two uraei (rearing cobras) with a sun disk.
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Under the day and date-Monday, October 19th-he'd sketched a griffinlike animal with the body of an antelope and the head of a bird crowned with three uraei and three sets of wings.
Blood Lines Huff, Tanya 1993
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And who is he whose roof is of fire, whose walls are living uraei, and the floor of whose house is a stream of water?
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His throne is a tomb, of which the bolted doors and the cornice of uraei may be seen painted on the side.
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The artists, then, depicted a Hall of Ma [= a] t, the doors of which are wide open, and the cornice of which is formed of uraei and feathers, symbolic of Ma [= a] t.
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North furnished with uraei; neither works nor offerings can be made to him; and he cannot be made to come forth from his secret place.
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Urerit Crown, and there were two uraei upon his head.
Legends of the Gods The Egyptian Texts, edited with Translations 1895
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The top of the shrine in which the god sits is surmounted by uraei, wearing disks on their heads, and the cornice also is similarly decorated.
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And Heru-Behutet was in the form of a man of mighty strength, and he had the face of a hawk, and his head was crowned with the White Crown and the Red Crown, and with two plumes and two uraei, and he had the back of a hawk, and his spear and his chain were in his hands.
Legends of the Gods The Egyptian Texts, edited with Translations 1895
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The goddess Nebt-Unnut is stablished upon thy head; and her uraei of the South and of the North are upon thy brow; she taketh up her place before thee.
MRBOGGLE commented on the word uraei
plural of uraeus.
June 9, 2009