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Wedjat
The restored eye in Egyptian imagery, often called the Eye of Horus. Related to the organ “eye,” not a generic protective sticker.
Also known as Eye of Horus · udjat
Egyptian religion · Nile valley
Wedjat represents Eye.
The wedjat is a restored eye in Egyptian imagery. It is a specific sign, not every drawing of an eye.
from Raymond O. Faulkner (translation) · Book of the Dead, New Kingdom spells; Faulkner trans. 1972; Plutarch · On Isis and Osiris, c. 100 CE
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Wedjat belongs to Egyptian religion.
The restored eye is Egyptian. Plutarch’s Greek essay is secondary; the sign is still not a generic sticker.
from Raymond O. Faulkner (translation) · Book of the Dead, New Kingdom spells; Faulkner trans. 1972; Plutarch · On Isis and Osiris, c. 100 CE
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Wedjat is associated with Healing.
The restored eye is a restored whole. Healing as a completed sign, not a later clinical metaphor.
from Raymond O. Faulkner (translation) · Book of the Dead, New Kingdom spells; Faulkner trans. 1972
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Egyptian religion
Wedjat is sacred to Horus.
The Book of the Dead’s wedjat is the Eye of Horus — restored eye amulet and offering speech sacred to Horus, not wedjat represents eye alone and not a missing protection mint.
from Raymond O. Faulkner (translation) · Book of the Dead, New Kingdom spells; Faulkner trans. 1972
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Eye Form represents Wedjat.
Plutarch’s On Isis and Osiris treats the Osiris/Horus eye as a depicted sign; eye-form (the pointed-oval outline) performs the outline job for the wedjat mark under this source. A named form→wedjat representation, not eye the organ alone and not Eye of Ra as identity.
from Plutarch · On Isis and Osiris, c. 100 CE
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sources
- Book of the Dead · Raymond O. Faulkner (translation)
Raymond O. Faulkner, The Ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead.
- On Isis and Osiris · Plutarch
Plutarch, On Isis and Osiris (Moralia).