Eye of Horus agent of action, protection or wrath. The Eye of Horus was represented as a hieroglyph, designated D10 in Gardiner's sign list. It is represented in the Unicode character block for Egyptian hieroglyphs as U+13080 (𓂀). In Egyptian society, the eye of Horus was also a plant, which they included in elixirs and cakes. This plant was believed to have the ability to confer immortality onto people. One myth includes gods living upon plant life growing near a lake in Sekhet-hetep. The plants by this great lake was believed to be baked into the 'bread of eternity'. In Ancient Egypt, most
Gold (hieroglyph) the symbol for gold can be taken to mean that Horus was "superior to his foes". Gold also was strongly associated in the ancient Egyptian mind with eternity, so this may have been intended to convey the pharaoh's eternal Horus name. The combination of the Horus falcon and the gold hieroglyph is frequently found on Ancient Egyptian pectorals (see image). In the Old Egyptian Palermo Stone inscription (late 24th or early 23rd century BC), the hieroglyph is used in the phrases "first counting of gold" and "collar of gold". One of the few coins minted for ancient Egypt is the