While gathering information, I found that Eye of Horus is depicted to a Falcon. The right eye of Horus (Ra) represents the sun which serves as good luck, and left eye of Ra represents the moon which serves as protection. The interesting part of Eye of Horus is how Egyptians divided the eye into six parts using fractions and connected those fractions or parts with the five sense and the sixth sense as thoughts. They used 1/2 for the smell, 1/4 for vision, 1/8 for thought, 1/16 for listen, 1/32 for taste, 1/64 for touch. The picture below explains that each part of the eye represents the senses with unit fractions.
Thinking about Indian culture, I realize that in Hindu mythology, people consider the sun (Surya) as god brings fortune in their lives. Therefore, some religious people always do Surya Namaskar ( pray to the sun during sunrise) for good health and wealth. I noticed in India that some people place the symbol of the sun over the doors of their houses and business shops.
https://egyptian-symbols.com/pages/eye-of-horus
http://www.landofpyramids.org/eye-of-horus.htm
Amrit, I agree that it is really interesting how the parts of the Eye of Horus were connected to different senses. Thank you for sharing the connection with the Hindu sun god (Surya).
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