Jewellery – Eye Of Horus In A Circle – Silver Pendant
Sterling Silver Eye of Horus.
Size: 2.5cm
About The Eye of Horus: Also known as the The Eye of Ra. It is an ancient Egyptian symbol of protection, royal power and good health. The eye is personified in the Goddess Wadjet, Wedjat, Udjat, Uadjet, Wedjoyet, Edjo or Uto.
The name Wadjet is derived from “wadj” meaning “green”, hence “the green one”, and was known to the Greeks and Romans as “Uraeus” from the Egyptian “Iaret” meaning “risen one” from the image of a cobra rising up in protection. Wadjet was one of the earliest of Egyptian deities who later became associated with other goddesses such as Bast, Sekhmet, Mut and Hathor. She was the tutelary deity of Lower Egypt and the major Delta shrine the “Per-nu” was under her protection. Hathor is also depicted with this eye.
Funerary amulets were often made in the shape of the Eye of Horus. The Eye of Horus was intended to protect the Pharaoh here and 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 was the ancient Egyptian sky god who was usually depicted as a falcon, most likely a lanner or peregrine falcon. His right eye was associated with the sun god, Ra. The eye symbol represents the marking around the eye of the falcon, including the “teardrop” marking sometimes found below the eye. The mirror image, or left eye, sometimes represented the moon and the god Djehuti or Thoth.
In one myth, when Set and Horus were fighting for the throne after Osiris’s death, Set gouged out Horus’s left eye. The majority of the eye was restored by either Hathor or Thoth. When Horus’s eye was recovered, he offered it to his father, Osiris, in hopes of restoring his life. Hence, the eye of Horus was often used to symbolise sacrifice, healing, restoration, and protection.
