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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]
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. Eye of Providence (All-Seeing Eye, Eye of God) Catholic iconography, Masonic symbolism
Biologist and Paleontologist Rodrigo B. Salvador cited Pharah's design as heavily influenced by her nationality in a paper for The Journal of Geek Studies, noting that her armor and tattoo took heavy inspiration from the Egyptian god Horus and the significance of those elements in her design, specifically the lancer falcon which he felt was ...
Her-sema-tawy (Horus, Uniter of the Two Lands) – the Greek Harsomptus, depicted like the double-crowned Horus; Her-iunmutef (Horus, Pillar of His Mother) – A form of Horus depicted as a priest with a leopard-skin over the torso. Herui (double falcon or Horuses) – the 5th nome of Upper Egypt god in Coptos.
The right eye of Ra-Horus (merged into the god Ra-Horakhty), for instance, was equated with the sun, and his left eye equated with the moon. At times the Egyptians called the lunar eye the "Eye of Horus" and called the solar eye the "Eye of Ra"—Ra being the preeminent sun god in ancient Egyptian religion. [1]
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 an elongated shen ring encircling a name of a pharaoh or god/goddess, thus "eternally protecting" that personage.
In the relief shown in the gallery, which is on the wall of the Mortuary Temple of Hatshepsut at Luxor, there are two images of Wadjet: one of her as the Uraeus with her head through an ankh and another where she precedes a Horus hawk wearing the pschent, representing the pharaoh whom she protects. Eye of Horus on the left side.
Symbolic pictures were sometimes added to indicate the origin of the LSD. Designs printed on blotter paper can serve to identify dosage strengths, different batches, or makers. [6] As designs became more creative, blotter art became a folk and underground art form, drawing on an art vocabulary borrowed from psychedelic art and underground comix.