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Author: * Reylari Siamen -
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Date: Jun 1, 2004 - 14:00
The left Eye of Re surmounted by a silver lunar crescent, placed on a skiff by means of which it makes nocturnal journey. The winged scarab which seems to support the skiff represents the solar globe. These jewels are of gold encrusted with glass paste, lapis lazuli, turquoise, cornelian, and chacedony.
 Left Eye of Re
Eighteenth Dynasty,
c. 1350 BC, Cairo Museum
The sun and moon are the right and left eyes of Re, the supreme principle of light; and the following text reveals a knowledge of the true source of the moon's light:
'Khonsloh [moon], light of the night, image
of the left Eye...who rises in the
east while the sun is in the west...
the left Eye recives the light of the
right Eye.'
The lunar phases are symbolized in the myth by the tribulations of the left Eye of Re, constantly under attack from Seth, enemy of Hours, or from the black pic. It is always Thoth, Master of Time, who restores the left Eye, with which he is identified, to wholeness; another legend relates that when the sun ceases to shine at the end of the day he names a surrogate, Thoth, to make light during the night.
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