The Eye of Wadjet “Green”, that is, resurrected (just as nature resurrected in spring turns green) is the most complex image of ancient Egyptian mythology, amenable to only approximate differentiation. It has many forms and appears in many myths and symbolic images. It is not possible to reveal the meaning of this image in one section, so the reader will have to comprehend the symbolism and ideas associated with the Eye of Wadjet gradually, throughout the entire book.
The two main forms of the Eye of Wadjet are the Eye of Ra and the Eye of Horus.
The Eye of Ra, or the Solar Eye, represents power and authority. Most often it is depicted as a uraeus cobra, and is therefore identified with the cobra goddess Wadget, the patroness of Lower Egypt. The Uraeus Eye protects justice and law and kills all enemies of world order with its rays. Many monuments of Egyptian art depict a winged uraeus in the form of the goddess Wadjet, protecting Amun from evil forces; Amon's crown is also topped with two uraei. The Solar Eye was also identified with Maat Nekhbet, Hathor and with all the goddesses depicted as a lioness: Tefnut, Mehit, Sokhmet and others.
The Eye of Horus symbolizes the resurrection after death: when Set killed Osiris, Horus, the son of Isis and Osiris, resurrected his father, allowing him to swallow his Eye, which Seth had previously chopped into pieces, and Thoth, the god of healing, collected the parts, spliced them, and the Eye was resurrected. Amulets in the form of the Eye of Wadjet were placed in the burial shrouds of the mummy - and the deceased, identified with Osiris, was resurrected in the Underworld, just as nature is resurrected after the Nile floods in the spring (the exact purpose of the amulets in most cases cannot be found out, since it depended on the spells that were cast over the amulet). The Eye of Wadget - the Eye of Horus was identified with the left eye of Horus the Falcon - the Magnifying Glass, which resurrects in the sky every month; and with the right eye - the Sun, which, having died in the evening in the west, invariably rises in the morning in the east.
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