The Eye of Horus also known as the Eye of Ra is an ancient Egyptian symbol of protection, Royal Power, and good health. Images of the Eye were found on the tomb walls and funerary amulets were often made in the shape of the Eye of Horus and were intended to protect the pharaoh in the afterlife as well as warding off evil in this life. Seeking the Eye's protective power, Egyptian sailors often painted the symbol on the bow of their vessel to ensure safe sea travel. Horus was the ancient Egyptian god of the sky and was depicted as a peregrine falcon. His right eye was associated with the sun god Ra and in the Egyptian mythology - when the pharaoh died, he became Horus the Falcon and flew over the land everyday riding in his fiery chariot (the sun) as he watched over the people - much like the All Seeing Eye. However, in Egyptian mythology, this Eye was not the passive organ of sight but more an agent of action as in the protection of the people or wrath as in a powerful destructive force being linked with the fierce heat of the sun. My interpretation of the Eye of Horus included numerous Dark Designs hidden with in the body of the drawing. My inspiration for this drawing came from a lady who is an animal ophthalmologist and asked if it would be possible to draw an eye with a dog, a cat, and a horse in the pupil - probably not a regular eye I replied but I could do an eye steeped in the mythologies of the past, as in the Eye of Horus.
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- ALICE
- ANGEL
- BLACK CAT
- BLACK STALLION
- CELTIC COAT OF ARMS
- CELTIC CROSS
- COMPASS ROSE
- DEMON / PHOENIX
- DRAGON - NORSE
- DRAGON - WESTERN
- DRAGONFLY
- DREAM CATCHER
- EAGLE 1
- EAGLE 2
- EGYPTIAN
- ELEPHANT
- EYE OF rA / HORUS
- FAIRY DRAGON RIDER
- FAIRY DREAMS
- FALCON IN FLIGHT
- GRIFFIN
- HIPPOCAMPUS AND THE NEREIDE
- HUMMINGBIRD
- HYDRA
- IRON BUTTERFLY
- JURASSIC PARK
- KRAKEN
- LION
- LIZARD
- MAMMOTH
- MEDUSA I
- MEDUSA II
- MINOTAUR
- ORCA
- PANTHER IN A TREE
- PEGASUS
- PEREGRINE
- RAVEN
- SABER CAT
- SAMURAI
- SIREN OF THE SEA
- TEMPLAR
- TOTEMS of the FIRST PEOPLE
- TREE OF LIFE
- TYRANNOSAURUS REX
- UNICORN
- VAMPIRE
- WOLF
- WYVERN
- ZEBRA
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