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The Eye of Horus (Wedjat) (previously Wadjet and the Eye of the Moon; and afterwards as The Eye of Ra) or ("Udjat") 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, Hathor, and on other deities associated with her.

In the Egyptian language, the word for this symbol was "Wedjat". It was the eye of one of the earliest of Egyptian deities, Wadjet, who later became associated with Bast, Mut, and Hathor as well. Wedjat was a solar deity and this symbol began as her eye, an all seeing eye. In early artwork, Hathor is also depicted with this eye. Funerary amulets were often made in the shape of the Eye of Horus.

The Wedjat or Eye of Horus is "the central element" of seven "gold, faience, carnelian and lapis lazuli" bracelets found on the mummy of Shoshenq II. The Wedjat "was intended to protect the king [here] in the afterlife" and to ward off evil. Ancient Egyptian and Near Eastern sailors would frequently paint the symbol on the bow of their vessel to ensure safe sea travel.

Horus

Horus was an ancient Egyptian sky god in the form of a falcon. The right eye represents a Peregrine Falcon's eye and the markings around it, that includes the "teardrop" marking sometimes found below the eye. As the wadjet (also udjat or utchat), it also represented the sun, and was associated with Horus' mother, Isis, and with Wadjet another goddess, as well as the sun deity Ra (Re). The mirror image, or left eye, sometimes represented the moon and the god Tehuti (Thoth).[9]

Eye of Horus, a hieroglyph

Seven different hieroglyphs are used to represent the "eye&quotsmile.gifhuman body parts). One is the common usage of the verb: to do, make, or perform. The other frequently used hieroglyph is the Wedjat, a sacred protective symbol, called the Eye of Horus after his cult rose to prominence as the son of Hathor.

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                  The eye of horus has its representation firstly with the sun god ra or Atum and can be also Known as the son of isis who his father osirus was murdered by the god set who is also known as the god of the desert Osirus the king of the underworld and therefore horus became king of the living
                  When we begin to look into the writtings of other books and there association to these characters the whole thing changes as from the book the two babylons by Rev Alexander Hislop and its mention to an empire as many have reckoned it to be called the chaldees or another form of babylon in association with the tower of Babel 
               we see isis take the form of a woman called semiramus giving birth to osirus which is the child given to Biblical character Nimrod as in( India ) the tradition of mother and child Isi & Iswara ( Rome ) Fortuna & Jupiter ( Greece ) Ceres or Irene & plutus

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