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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]
The Hieracosphinx has the head of a hawk and the body of a lion.The name was coined by Herodotus for the hawk-headed sphinxes that he saw in Egypt; the other being the ram-headed sphinx which Herodotus called Criosphinx (Ancient Greek: Κριόσφιγξ).
Eye of Horus or Wedjat. 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).
Nehebkau with a falcon-head presents an Eye of Horus to Min. Based on depictions in various hypocephali. Nehebkau is the "original snake" [5] of Egyptian mythology, and was believed to be both an ancient and eternal god. [2]
On the near left of Horus is the god Ra-Horakhty, which is the combination of the two sky gods Horus and Ra, standing on a serpent, and surrounding both of them are two divine symbols. On the far left of the relief is Horus's mother Isis standing upon a serpent, and on her left is the standard of the vulture goddess Nekhbet, patron of the south.
Shen Rings can most often be seen in the clutches of Horus The word shen itself means "encircling" in ancient Egyptian, while the shen ring itself represents eternal protection. What the French called a cartouche is in fact a elongated Shen Ring encircling a name of a Pharaoh or God/Goddess, thus ‘eternally protecting’ that personage.
Nehebkau presents an Eye of Ra/Horus to Min. Wadjet, represented with an Eye of Ra as her head, holds a lotus blossom out behind Hathor in cow form, who faces the four Sons of Horus. |Source=Derived from Min.svg, Horus_as_falcon.svg, Isis.svg, Atef_crown.svg, Hathor_cow.svg, Four_sons_of_Horus.svg, portions of File:Central_Hypocephalus_Scene ...
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