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Eye of Horus

HORUS EYE, in ancient Egyptian, "Udjat", meaning healthy, in good shape. The ancient Egyptians believed it to be one of the most powerful protective symbols.

***The Eye of Horus is the eye of the Moon and Night, it is the left eye of Ra and was taken out in battle by his brother Seth, Horus's eye was then replaced and healed by Osiris his father and the God of the Underworld in Egypt, making the eye, the eye that is all knowing, all seeing and protection in the night from evil. Most people do confuse the Eye of Ra and the Eye of Horus, the Eye of Ra is the right eye and the eye of the Sun and works in keeping order during the day. Added in by Lady Leona.

Eye of Horus
Horus is the Egyptian god of the skies and of light and goodness. Horus is the son of Isis and Osiris, he avenged his father's murder by defeating Set, the god of evil and darkness. His eyes are the sun and the moon

The Eye is used in many symbols. The eye is described in the following message. Generally it covers all esoteric symbols of the eye coming back from ancient egyptian times. It is also seen combined with the triangle. The symbol of the triangle is on many tarot cards and one good description is on card 14 Temperance on the chest of the Archangel Michael. The triangle also represents the number 3.

The EYE OF HORUS has a very specific meaning. The eye is represented as a figure with 6 parts. These 6 parts correspond to the six senses - Touch, Taste, Hearing, Thought, Sight, Smell. These are the 6 parts of the *eye*. The eye is the receptor of *input*. It has these six doors, to receive data.

The construction of the eye follows very precise laws. The senses are ordered according to their importance. And according to how much energy must be *eaten* by the *eye* for an individual to receive a particular sensation. All of the sensory data input is *food*.

In the Ancient Egyptian measurement system, the EYE OF HORUS represented a fractional quantification system to measure parts of a whole. Get a book on Egyptian stuff or scan the internet for Egyptian Math see for e.g.

"Understanding Hieroglyphs" by H. Wilson, ISBN 0-8442-4604-2

The entire eye measured 1 heqat. And each of the parts of the eye measured fractions of the heqat.

THE EYE OF HORUS

These are the parts of the EYE and their corresponding associated fraction values :-

1/641/321/16

1/81/41/2

The corresponding sense data are :-
1/64 heqat Touch
1/32 heqat Taste
1/16 heqat Hearing
1/8 heqat Thought
1/4 heqat Sight
1/2 heqat Smell

Also, in the Egyptian system there is the unit of the ro. And by definition 320 ro = 1 heqat. The symbol for the ro is the mouth, it represented one mouthful. Again associating these measures with food, or input data.

Now if we consider the ro as the smallest unit of input energy needed for the input to *register* as sense data. We note,320 = 5 x 64 and so in terms of ro we have 5 ro to register a Touch 10 ro to register a Taste 20 ro to register a Sound 40 ro to register a Thought 80 ro to register a Light 160 ro to register a Smell

To see how the drawings of the eye correspond to the various senses note:-

1. Touch 1/64 heqat or 5 ro

This part of the EYE represents planting a stick into the ground. Like planting a stalk that will take root. The Earth represents touch. Planting itself represents physical contact and touching.

2. Taste 1/32 heqat or 10 ro

This part of the EYE represents the sprouting of the wheat or grain from the planted stalk. It is the food we put into our mouth. And so represents taste. Taste is also = Touch + Shape. That is to say, the different tastes we experience come from touching different shapes. So, touch is more a fundamental sense that taste.

3. Hearing 1/16 heqat or 20 ro

This part of the EYE represents the EAR. The figure points towards the ear on the face. Also, it has the shape of a horn or musical instrument. When we Hear a sound or combination of sounds we find this to be pleasing or unplesant. The sound has a taste for us, causing a preference. Sound requires Touch + Taste and so is a combination of the lower senses.

4. Thought 1/8 heqat or 40 ro

This part of the EYE represents thought. We often use our eyebrows to express our thoughts. And this facial feature is closest to that part of the forehead we associate with thinking. We raise our eyebrows to express surprise, for example. Thought = Touch + Taste + Hearing. If you think about it. Thinking is a kind of surpressed sound. The language we think in is like the *touch* of muscle prior to giving voice. And of course, we have a *taste* for different types of thoughts.

5. Sight 1/4 heqat or 80 ro

This is the pupil of the EYE. And so no more needs to be said. It represents seeing, or the sensation of light.

6. Smell 1/2 heqat or 160 ro

This part of the EYE points to the nose. It even looks like a nose. It represents the sensation of smell.

There is a lot more to this analysis, but that's the basics.

In neo-Pagan witchcraft the God and Goddess are the divine forces and the very essence of the craft, they are the Great Father and Great Mother whose limitless energy brings forth all life. They embody the living biosphere of the planet and the forces of the elements; they are the creators and destroyers. She, The Goddess, is the Queen of Heaven, she is the moon, the source of magical power; she is emotion, intuition and the pyschic faculty. He, The God, is the sun, the source of masculine energy; he is the raw force, wisdom and law.

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http://greatscott.com/hiero/eye.html, this site goes into detail on the fractions of the Eye of Horus.

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