ВGor, Horus - "sky", in Egyptian mythology, the God of the Sky and the Sun in the guise of a falcon, a man with a falcon's head or a winged sun.
Horus is the God of royalty, the patron of the power of the pharaoh, the son of the Goddess of fertility Isis and the God of the productive forces of Osiris. The symbol of Horus is a sun disc with outstretched wings.
Mythology
“Isis conceived Horus from the dead Osiris, who was killed by the desert god Seth, his brother. Having retired deep into the swampy delta of the Nile, Isis gave birth and raised a son, Horus, who, having matured, in a dispute with Seth, achieves recognition of himself as the sole heir of Osiris.
In the battle with Set, the murderer of his father, Horus is defeated - Set tore out his eye, the wonderful Eye, but then Horus defeated Set and deprived him of his masculinity. His wonderful Eye of Horus gave his father to swallow, and he came to life. After defeating Seth, Horus's eye grew again. The resurrected Osiris handed over his throne in Egypt to Horus, and he himself became the king of the afterlife."
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The Eye of Horus, healed by God Thoth, became a powerful amulet worn by the Egyptians - both the pharaohs and the common people.
The eye was depicted or carved on Egyptian tombstones - to help the dead in the afterlife. Amulets in the form of an eye with a royal cobra guarding him were placed in the mummy's burial sheets, and the deceased, identified with Osiris, was resurrected in the Afterlife.
The Eye of Horus served as a prototype of the painted and inlaid eyes inserted into the slots on the statues and masks of the dead in order to "revive" incarnations, to return the soul to the buried body during the ritual of "opening lips and eyes."
The left hawk eye of the God Horus, which was knocked out in his fight with Set, symbolizes the Moon, Horus's right eye is the Sun. The spiral under the eye, shaped like a galaxy, symbolizes energy and perpetual motion.
Eye of Horus - Eye of Ra - Wadget was an important ancient Egyptian symbol of power. The ancient Egyptians attributed the phases of the moon to damage to the left eye of Horus. Every month in the temples of Egypt, the rituals of "restoration" of Wadget were held, connected with the lunar cycle.
The "All-Seeing Eye" was symbolized by the ancient Egyptians with the North Star as a symbol of illumination. The eye and eyebrow of Horus meant strength and power, two winged eyes - North and South, the Sun and the Moon - heavenly space.
The right eye symbolized the Sun, Ra and Osiris, the left eye - the Moon and Isis. "Eye of Horus" personified the goddess of truth Maat, associated with the cult of Ra and bearing the names "daughter of Ra" or "eye of Ra".
In mathematics, the Eye was used to represent fractions. According to one version of the myth, Seth cut the torn out eye of Horus into 64 pieces, so the components of the Wadget were used to write fractions from 1/2 to 1/64, and were also used to measure capacities and volumes.
The ancient Greek philosopher Plato called the Eye the main solar instrument, believing that the soul has an eye, and Truth is visible to him alone. The Eye of Horus is mysticism, light, illumination, knowledge, mind, vigilance, protection.
Symbols of the "All-Seeing Eye" in the myths of the peoples of the world
In Christianity, the Eye symbolizes the All-Seeing God, omniscience, power, light. The eye in the triangle represents the Head of God, and in the triangle surrounded by a shining circle - her infinite holiness.
The “All-Seeing Eye” is a symbolic image of the All-Seeing Eye of God, and inscribed in a triangle is the symbol of the Trinity.
In the West, the right eye means the sun, day and future, the left eye means the moon, night and past.
In the East, in Chinese and Japanese symbols, the left eye means the Sun, the right eye means the Moon.
For Buddhists, the eye symbolizes light and wisdom. The third eye of the Buddha, the flaming pearl, is spiritual consciousness. The "All-Seeing Eye" symbolizes the ability to intuitively "see".
In American Indians, the eye of the heart sees everything, it is the eye of the Great Spirit and omniscience.
In ancient Greece, the eye symbolized Apollo, the observer of the heavens, the Sun was the eye of Zeus (Jupiter).
For the Hindus, the third eye of Shiva, the pearl in the middle of the forehead, represents spiritual consciousness, transcendental wisdom. Shiva's three eyes correspond to his three functions as the supreme deity: creation, preservation and destruction.
In Islam, the eye of the heart is a spiritual center, a place of absolute intelligence and enlightenment.
In Sumerian mythology, the eye personified the Lord of the Sacred Eye.
In a number of cultures, the eye was seen as the seat of the soul. Through the pupils, the soul enters the body and leaves it. The eyes contain a special hypnotic energy. Rebirth to a new life was associated with the opening of the eyes. The Eye symbol carries tremendous strength and energy.
The symbolism of the "All-Seeing Eye" in architecture, sculpture, painting, on banknotes
In Christianity, the symbol of the "All-Seeing Eye" in the triangle is the symbol of the Trinity, found on icons and religious buildings, including Orthodox.
The "all-seeing eye" is a symbol of clairvoyance, light and wisdom, energy and strength are associated with it.
Being similar to the Sun, the source of light, which is a symbol of mind and spirit, in a number of cultures and religions, the Eye was endowed with the function of spiritual "vision".
The “All-Seeing Eye” in icon painting is a symbolic and allegorical composition symbolizing the All-Seeing God. It is also depicted on the main portico of the Kazan Cathedral in St. Petersburg.
The "All-Seeing Eye" is decorated with a bronze bas-relief on the pedestal of the Alexander Column, erected in the center of the Palace Square of St. Petersburg by order of Emperor Nicholas I, in memory of the victory of his older brother Alexander I over Napoleon.
The architecture initially allocates the "All-Seeing Eye" such a place so that it catches the eye, and a person inevitably comes into optical contact with the "unblinking gaze of Providence."
The "All-Seeing Eye" is depicted on the Aachen - Imperial Cathedral in Germany, where the emperors of the Holy Roman Empire were crowned for centuries.
The interior of the Royal Chapel at Versailles. The “All-Seeing Eye” crowns the altar composition, evoking the feeling of the mysterious presence of the Creator.
On the Ukrainian 500 hryvnia banknote, the "All-Seeing Eye" is part of the reproduced drawing "Pythagorean Triangle" by Grigory Skovoroda, a Ukrainian philosopher and poet.
The Eye of Providence was adopted as part of the symbolism of the reverse side of the Great Seal of the United States. On the seal, the Eye is surrounded by the words "Annuit Cœptis", meaning "our undertakings are blessed." Below the pyramid is bordered by a ribbon with the motto in Latin "Novus ordo seclorum" - "New world order". The eye is placed above a truncated pyramid with thirteen levels, symbolizing the 13 states that were originally part of the United States and the country's future growth. Due to the Eye's use in the Great Seal, it is widely used in other American seals and emblems.
Freemasons - "free masons" used the symbol of the "All-Seeing Eye", borrowed from Christianity, to remind of the all-pervading gaze of divine providence.
The symbolism of Freemasonry originates from the tools of labor of the masons - the builders of medieval cathedrals in Europe, who were the first "brothers" of the movement. A trowel, a compass, a plumb line, an apron are interpreted by the Masons in a symbolic sense and are used to describe the Masonic moral and ethical system.
The generally accepted symbol of the movement of Masons is a triangle, inside which is depicted an open eye - "Radiant Delta" - the main Masonic symbol of the first degree, the degree of the student.
The eye of the "Great Architect of the Universe" is depicted on the back of the US $ 1. The idea of drawing a 1 dollar bill is attributed to the Russian artist, mystic Nicholas Roerich.
On the left, on the one-dollar bill, Roerich placed the large US seal. On it is a pyramid, one of the main symbols of the "free masons" - masons.
According to Professor Ernst Muldashev, the "All-Seeing Eyes" of the Buddha, looking at the four directions of the world from the top of the famous Buddhist stupa Swayambunath in the Kathmandu valley, do not belong to an ordinary person, but to a representative of the highest race of humanity - the Lemurians or Atlanteans.
Perhaps that is why the Tibetan Lamas say that religions are the knowledge of previous civilizations recorded and carried through the centuries.
According to a medieval legend, when Alexander the Great was at the gates of paradise, the Eye rolled out to meet him. The wise men put all the jewels on one side of the scales, and the Eye on the other, and the last side outweighed.
The sages explained: “If we put all the riches of the world on the scales, then the human eye will outweigh. Because a person is never satisfied with what he has. But when, instead of jewelry, a pinch of dust was thrown onto the scale, it turned out to be heavier than the Eye.
Author: Valentina Zhitanskaya
