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The Eye of Horus is an ancient Egyptian symbol of protection and royal power from deities, in this case from Horus or Ra. The symbol is seen on images of Horus' mother, Isis, and on other deities associated with her. In the Egyptian language, the word for this symbol was "wedjat" (wɟt).
Amulet from the tomb of Tutankhamun, fourteenth century BC, incorporating the Eye of Horus beneath a disk and crescent symbol representing the moon [2]. The ancient Egyptian god Horus was a sky deity, and many Egyptian texts say that Horus's right eye was the sun and his left eye the moon. [3]
Used as a symbol of Saint Peter. A very common display in churches dedicated to Saint Peter. It has also been modernly used as a satanic or anti-Christian symbol. Eye of Horus: Ancient Egyptian religion: The eye of the god Horus, a symbol of protection, now associated with the occult and Kemetism, as well as the Goth subculture.
The symbol could be stretched to contain other objects, which were then understood as being eternally protected by the shen ring. [citation needed] In its elongated form the shen ring became the cartouche, which enclosed and protected a royal name. [2] The Goddess Heqet, (the 'Frog'), is often seated on a shenu.
Ideogram for dp, "head"; other uses related to actions of the head; (example "the dp of the rebels", 'the "chief" of the rebels') 2. also for dp, see archaic dagger 3. (Narmer Palette shows 10 enemy heads-(decapitated)) Possibly ancestral to Proto-Sinaitic Resh and its descendants 𓁷
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The Eye of Ra or Eye of Re, usually depicted as sun disk or right wedjat-eye (paired with the Eye of Horus, left wedjat-eye), is an entity in ancient Egyptian mythology that functions as an extension of the sun god Ra's power, equated with the disk of the sun, but it often behaves as an independent goddess, a feminine counterpart to Ra and a ...
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