Here is a letter that has a strange path: it seems almost immutable and universal as it looks so similar once it arrives in each alphabet. And the best part is that she is really the embodied concept of writing, the meta goddess Seshat. She is the memory of all things, the guarantor of rectitude and truth, at least for the Egyptian genesis.

She shows benevolent neutrality, because if you can write anything, it’s when you read that you make your intelligence work. Her hand became the letter and not her headdress, a crown with seven branches, one for each creative word, surrounded by royal horns. It must be admitted that it would not have been easy to write.

However, this very powerful symbol has not been lost, it embellishes the tops of decorative or votive obelisks, such as the one that adorned the center of the Circus Maximus in Rome and that can be admired in St. Peter’s Square in the Vatican, always equipped with this heptagram of Egyptian mysticism.