"The oval head is said to represent the Nile delta, with the vertical mark representing the path of the river and the East and West arms representing the two sides of the country and their unification," oversat fra: http://kanechronicles.wikia.com/wiki/Ankh
"E. A. Wallis Budge postulated that the symbol originated as the belt-buckle of the mother goddess Isis, an idea joined by Wolfhart Westendorf with the notion that both the ankh and the knot of Isis were used in many ceremonies," oversat fra: http://kanechronicles.wikia.com/wiki/Ankh