Solar Eclipse and the "Eye of Horus"

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Just wanted to remind everyone that the Lust Symbol or “Eye of Horus” was inspired by a total solar eclipse! Tomorrow should be an important day of sacrifice…

From “http://eclipsology.blogspot.com/2009/09/how-winged-eye-symbol-was-inspired-by.html”:

Well over a century ago, the British astronomer Edward Walter Maunder published his theory that the winged sun disk symbol of ancient Egypt, as well as what he called the “ring with wings” solar disk symbols of Assyria and other ancient Mesopotamian civilizations, were inspired by a remarkable bird-like pattern that is quite readily perceivable within the sun’s coronal halo during total solar eclipses that occur during the minimum phase of sunspot activity. Besides inspiring ancient Egypt’s ubiquitous winged sun disk symbol, this coronal “Bird of the Sun” was quite evidently the inspiration for Horus, the solar falcon god of Egypt, as well as the Egyptian bennu bird which we know as the Phoenix bird of classical Greek myth.

The Egyptian religious myth of the cosmic battle between the solar falcon god Horus and the sun eating serpent god Set (or Apop) was also evidently inspired by the total eclipse of the sun as E. A. Wallis Budge, Curator of Egyptian and Assyrian Antiquities at the British Museum, proposed in his translation of ‘The Egyptian Book of the Dead’ at the turn of the 20th century. In fact, the solar falcon god Horus is quite literally described as taking on the form of a “great winged disk” in some versions of this ancient Egyptian religious myth inspired by total solar eclipses.

The Egyptian version of the winged eye symbol is thus essentially little more than a modest variation of the “Eye of Horus” symbol or the very similar udjat eye symbol (aka wadjet eye) to which the wings, and sometimes even the talons, of the solar falcon god Horus have been attached. In fact, it might actually make rather more sense, and perhaps even strike considerably closer to the actual ancient truth, to propose that the “Eye of Horus” symbol of Egypt is actually a total solar eclipse inspired “winged eye” symbol that has had the bird wings, tail, and any other body parts of the solar falcon god Horus, removed from it in order to emphasize the god’s attribute of divine watchfulness and protection that was inspired by the genuinely striking similarity in appearance of the totally eclipsed sun to an “Eye of God”.

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