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
The Contendings of Horus and Seth The Contendings of Horus and Seth "The Contendings of Horus and Seth" is a mythological story from the Twentieth dynasty of Ancient Egypt found in the first sixteen pages of the "Papyrus Chester Beatty I" and deals with the battles between Horus and Seth to determine who will succeed Osiris as king. The Papyrus Chester Beatty I dates to the twentieth dynasty during the reign of Ramesses V and likely came from a scribe's collection that was recorded for personal entertainment (Chester Beatty Pap I, Oxford). The papyrus contains the story of "The Contendings of Horus and Seth" as well