The eye of Horus is a representation of good luck, well-being, protection, healing, etc. It is the representation of an Ancient Egyptian religion. The other names for the eye of Horus are Udjat eye or the Wedjat eye. Painted with specific patterns, the eye of Horus looks stylish.
They therefore associated this eye with funerary offerings, along with the offerings given to deities at the temple. There are some other concepts like the moon, whose waxing and waning they also associated with the injury and restoration of the eye of Horus in the ancient Egyptian civilization.
The symbol wasn’t only limited to the people of Egypt; the people of neighboring lands, for example, Syria, Cannan, and Nubia, also adopted the this eye of protection. It gradually became one of the commonly used designs on talismans during approximately 2686–2181 BC and lasted up to the Roman period (30 BC – 641 AD).
Horus, an ancient Egyptian God, was also a sky deity. It is mentioned in many ancient scriptures, and the Egyptians believed that the two eyes of Horus depicted two different things. The left eye of Horus depicted the moon while his right eye depicted the sun.
There are a lot of other arguments about the significance of both Horus eyes and what they actually mean. A renowned Egyptologist, Richard H. Wilkinson, believes that the left eye of the God was known as the lunar eye.
In contrast, the right was known as the solar eye of Ra, which was often equated with the red and white crown of Egypt. Another historian Rolf Kraus argued that the eyes of Horus depicted the Morning star and the evening star, respectively.
According to the ancient scriptures, the conflicts started when Set was believed to have stolen the eye of Horus and trampled or eaten it. Another deity is known as Thoth, then restored the vision. Thoth was the one who maintained peace between both Horus and Set. They also believed Thoth to have reshaped the trampled eye.
