#Eye of Horus

[the-looking-glasss]

[th3-0bjectivist]

“Eye Scratched Epiphany” - Animated painting

[esoteric44ngel]

[carpethedamndiemdejavu]

[necro-acid]

yooo I'm back

the winter comes > I WANNA BECOME EVEN WORSE AND SCARIER > the summer comes > I wanna become better and nicer :))

[servantofthegodss]

Dua Heru-sa-Aset 🙏

Praise Horus, Son of Aset

Praise Horus in the Horizon

Praise the Divine Falcon

Praise He Whose form and Whose appearance are not perceived

[mid0o]

"Hore" or what is known in Egyptology as "Horus"🇪🇬

- "Hoor" is the first Egyptian deity in the form of a falcon. His name is in the ancient Egyptian language "Hur", or: "Hoor", and in Greek "Horus", and with this name it was commonly mentioned in Egyptology references. He is one of the most important and oldest Egyptian deities ever, and since his appearance has been associated with the monarchy and the legitimacy of government, as the legitimate heir of his father "Osiris". Accordingly, the king was considered to be “Hoor” on earth, or as his representative on the throne of Egypt, an actual or symbolic representation. He is the ideal of all the kings of Egypt; As he avenged his father "Osiris" from his killer "Set" and he was just, and therefore they took the name "Horus the Living", which is one of the oldest royal titles in ancient Egypt, and his name was mentioned in ancient times associated with the god Hathor and the first scorpion king.

His name appeared on archaeological sources since the beginning of the dynasties, where Horus was depicted in this body on the prayer hall of King “Narmer” while he was restraining the captives from the era of the First Dynasty in Egypt while he held the heads of the defeated enemies of Egypt and presented them to the king, and even the Fourth Dynasty was the title of Pharaoh consisting only From the name of Horus, and during that dynasty the name "Golden Horus" also appeared, as a second title for the king.

The texts of “(Hijr Palermo)” refer to the kings of pre-dynastic times in Egypt that they were known as “Shamsio Hor”, meaning (followers of Hor), and the deity “Hoor” appeared in many images, and its theology expresses that it is one of the most Egyptian deities, depth and breadth in ancient Egyptian theology.

[writing-for-life]

Alloha, my Goddess of Sandman Knowledge! I hope you are well and enjoying the weekend! Yesterday I (and maybe other Sandman fans ) learned from Neil that Death didn't have her iconic eye swirl until Season of Mists - and it seems true ... I have that Death compilation book and there's a mix of her with and without that swirl and I wonder if YOU have any theories about that. Does it come along with our Dream "issue" (then why did she enter the family meeting with it or was not marked with the swirl at the beginning of Overture) or what is the deeper meaning? Thank you in advance - can't wait for your answer!

Hello friend, thanks for sliding into my inbox 🖤

Controversial opinion: While the symbolism of the Eye of Horus/Ra (more about that in a sec) is most definitely not random, just like the symbolism of the Ankh, I think when and if she wears it actually is. It’s a goth fashion choice ^jk

[That’s why I always inwardly laugh when people get their knickers in a twist about Kirby not wearing it in S1, because a) Death didn’t have one in the comics in The Sound of her Wings and b) I firmly believe it’s a just a choice. She can take it or leave it. She didn’t need “gothed up more” because Kirby literally wore what she wore in The Sound of her Wings: A black tank and black trousers.]

There’s certainly a trend that she doesn’t have it the further back we go chronologically, but even that is just a trend.

The Heart of a Star (earliest in the timeline, ~3-4billion years ago:

First Vortex (we don’t know when exactly, but it’s after The Heart of a Star and “aeons ago”):

And I guess for both of the above it could also be argued that they are clearly before ancient Egypt and wouldn’t have any cultural reference either. She wears the ankh in both though, so we can almost immediately scrap that thought again. But let’s just roll with it from app. 3,000 BC onwards…

Roundabout 900/800 BC (Orpheus’ Wedding/the aftermath):

But:

And you can’t even say she only wears it when “the topic” comes up, because then she’d probably also wear it in the first one above.

1389:

But—1864:

1915:

And to those who say she’s been consistently wearing it since 1990/SoM—nope. This is Brief Lives 1992:

So I think it’s rather random, and I personally don’t put too much stock in it other than thinking she puts it on when she feels like it. Or rather: When the artist thinks of it.

As for the symbolism:

It actually matters if you wear it on your left eye (Horus) or on your right (Ra), or both. They both used to be called Eye of Horus very far back in Egyptian history but eventually became distinct.

The Eye of Horus (left) has strong links to funeral rites (there’s a whole story about Horus offering his eye to Osiris to protect/sustain him in the afterlife). That’s why I always think it should have been on her other eye in The Kindly Ones and The Wake (she wears it on her right in both), but that’s just me being a hairsplitter, and you could find reasons for both if you wanted to.

It makes sense for Hob I guess (bottom row second), so maybe they didn’t want to create the illusion of continuity errors 🤣 How cool would it have been though if Zulli had shown a transition from left eye (afterlife) to both eyes like Talbot in Song of Orpheus(afterlife/life) to right eye (life)?

The Eye of Ra (right) is generally also about giving and sustaining life, but not so much the afterlife. It has much stronger symbolic ties to life on earth. It also has stronger ties to the feminine, and despite being called “Eye of Ra”, it is often also linked to goddesses like Wedjat (both eyes are also called “wedjat eye”), Bast or Hathor.

If you wear it on both, there’s a lot to be said about balance (male/female, moon/sun etc). They used to be called Horus’ lunar (left) and solar (right) eye, for example.

So I guess you could put a lot of stock in the fact that she often wears it on her right eye (more tied to life on earth), but also on her left (more tied to death), or even on both, and find meaning in that. And that she actually wears the Eye of Ra (life and the feminine) more often than the Eye of Horus (but not exclusively).

But mostly, I feel it’s just random and the choice of whoever draws her 🤣

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[artbymyth]

Walk like an Egyptian

Part 7 to my historic warrior gals series! Disclaimer: these gals are all historically inspired NOT historically accurate

More under the cut on the details!

Did I spend too much time thinking about Egyptian wall paintings as a classical archaeologist who wrote her thesis on pigments? Yes. Yes I did. I took an Egyptology class not too long ago so I tried to use a lot of those sources. So her clothing is inspired by the stiff white linens of the upper class with its starched skirt, many a scarab, lotus flowers and the floral symbols of Upper and Lower Egypt, a ceremonial golden axe, a negative space obelisk, and malachite eye shadow to name a few!

[sigmaart39]

The Arch-Traitor

[sadasspisces]

idk what i want next; 11 tattoos and counting 🤷🏼‍♀️😩

[nickysfacts]

You could say that the never ending battle between good and evil is a real pain in the eye!

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[creese]

Eye of Horus by Michael Creese

[kungseyesfr]

Egyptian gods

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[servantofthegodss]

Dua Wadjet, Wep Tawy 🙏

Praise Wadjet, the one who delimits the Lands

Praise thee, Great of Magic

Praise the Protector of Horus

Praise the Noble Serpent who flowed forth from the Eye