Bread, vulture and the symbolic mouth

The name Tara consists of the following symbols:

Bread is the most fundamental symbol for life and offering in contemporary and ancient Egyptian culture.  A pharaoh may have wanted to be buried with all of his gold and luxuries of life, but he also needed plenty of bread in the afterlife. 

Here are the loaves from the tomb of King Tut.

Here is a depiction of Tia (the nurse of the princess) offering bread.

And I firmly believe that the biblical references (to breaking bread and the fellowship) are derived from the ancient world.  The act of giving bread is one of respect and honor. 

*Side note: Egyptian pita bread is made from sourdough.  The "mother" is literally passed down from the mother to the daughter or daughter-in-law.  This practice has never ceased, so the mother is literally thousands of years old.

If you're still curious.  Read this and see if you can find the  𓏏 symbol on the bread. https://globalnews.ca/news/5736305/yeast-egyptian-sourdough-4500-years-old/

The Vulture was sacred and protected by the ancient Egyptians. 

**And you have 2, so you're double protected, or double it's power.  The strength of your motherhood resonated very deep and strong within me when I was researching this.  I almost don't need to say anything here.

Here are two depictions of the Vulture (Isis) worn or depicted as symbols of protection. 

It's the symbol for purity, motherhood and rebirth.  The vulture is also a symbol for Isis (the mother of Horus).  Isis nursing Horus is a common icon in ancient Egypt.  This stature from the Met shows the head of Isis adorned with vulture wings.

The symbol and meaning of the vulture remained in the ancient world until the advent of Christianity.  You can see vultures in Roman and Greek statuary as well as Egyptian ones.   

The mouth symbol is complicated and nuanced.  It is the first letter in the sun god Ra's name:

Ra is a major deity over the created world so I think having this in your name symbolizes your earthly existence.  I also think it refers to your longevity (like a lifeline). 

Here is Ra (the sun) sailing on his solar barque across the sky and into the night.

The mouth is also the symbol for "opening of the mouth" ceremony described in ancient Egyptian funerary texts.  I think of it as CPR for the afterlife.  Your soul must be born and revived from your earthly body in order to survive and thrive in the afterlife. 

Here is utterance 93 from the earliest prayer book in ancient Egypt (the pyramid texts) for the pharaoh Unas: "Wash yourself, Unas, open your mouth with the Eye of Horus! Call your Ka, like Osiris, that he may protect you against every kind of wrath of the dead! Unas, receive this your bread which is the Eye of Horus!"

Many religious scholars and researched have noted the parallels between the "opening of the mouth" and Psalm 51: "O Lord, open thou my lips" (verse 15)