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Thursday, February 24, 2005
Story time..again!
So since you all seemed to like the Egyptian tales so much I'll will educate you futher. This one about the Eye of Horus, a common symbol representing Egypt. But few know its actual meaning.
Seth (god of war)and Horus (uummm...he's alittle harder to explain because he's eight gods in one) were rivials of the throne in the Middle kingdom and thus came to battle. It cost Horus his left eye and Seth his....well, Seth won't be having children any more.
Now Seth was always detested by the people of Egypt but Horus was the son of Osiris so it came as a great misfortune to all that he was injured.
Horuses left eye is also refered to as his "Black eye" or his "Empty eye" which also represents the full moon. Toth, the god-scribe of all wisdom (head of a crane) healed his eye and put it back thogther. Horuses repared eye is the new moon so the moon cycle when
"aw he lost his eye, wait it's fixed, but now it's broke again... (I know that seems backwards but Horus originally was a hawk head and hawk's eyes are black so a new moon would be a full eye.)
In order to restore his left eye, Toth had to take 1/64 of Horuses right eye, and replaced what he took from the right with a 64th of pure magic. The righ eye or "White eye/Wedjat-eye" is accosiated with the cycle of the sun.
You'll see the right eye of Horus alot because, since now Horus had magic within him, he escilated to become Amun-Re (an all powerfull god) the Egyptians also discovered his eye (the moon cycles) is what controlled the flood.
All this togther made the Eye a VERY important symbol to Egyptians and is found in many a sculpture in Egypt as it aslo became the symbol of Maat. But thats an even LONGER
story. They used the eye commonly for mesurments in grinarys as well, as shown in the picture.
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