Sunday, June 26, 2011
"A Little Piece of the Puzzle"
1:31pm
Wedjat-Eye Amulet (at the Brooklyn Museum) Glazed faience Egypt Late Period, ca. 664-305 B.C.E. 02.235, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund There's a fascinating thing in Egyptology that has mystified me. The eye of Horus is called the Wadjet and there is a serpent goddess called Wadjet. How did they both have names so similar?
(From Wikipedia)
From Budge's two-volume dictionary, "the goddess of the eye of Horus"
Photo from which I traced for this illustration. We can see Horus to the left of the eye which is producing flames As I study the original photo, the flames are going up into Osiris' crook and flail, perhaps it is saying Horus is lending strength to Osiris for him to rule in the Underworld?
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