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The Eye of Horus (originally, '''The Eye of Ra''') is an Ancient Egypt ian symbol of protection and power, from the deity Horus or Ra . SYMBOL The Eye was a symbol that signified Royal Power , yet on the numeration side denoted a decimal system where round off was set to the first 6-terms. The ancients believed this symbol of indestructibility would assist in rebirth, due to Their Beliefs About The Soul . The more recent tradition of Freemasonry adopted the symbol in the form of the Eye Of Providence and as such it has survived to this day. The Eye of Horus (flanked by Nekhbet and Wadjet ) was found under the 12th layer of bandages on Tutankhamun 's Mummy . Horus was an ancient god in Egyptian Mythology who dramatically evolved over the whole of Egyptian History . Early on, he became identified as a sky god, where one of his eyes was the Sun , and the other the moon. His weaker eye later became less important in his mythology, and he became more strongly aligned with the sun, particularly when the cult of Thoth , a Moon god, arose. As the sun, or rather, with his eye as the sun, his eye had a special meaning, and became a symbol of power when combined with the hieratic aspects of the subject. Originally, Ra held this position, but as Horus gradually became more important, he transformed into a sun god, so Horus became thought of as Ra, or rather ''Ra-Herakhty'' ("Ra, who is Horus of the two horizons"). Later Horus-Eye numeration decreased in importance in Egyptian life, with hieratic, demotic and later improvements in Egyptian arithmetic solving the oldest Horus-Eye problem. The oldest Horus-Eye problem was to write any number, like one (1), exactly, without throwing away any piece of the number. In the Ancient Egyptian measurement system, the Eye Of Horus represented a fractional quantification system to measure parts of a whole. The entire eye measured one (1). Each of the parts of the eye measured a fraction of it. The shattering of Horus' eye into six pieces leaded the Egyptians to use the Eye to calculate in form of fractions. This is because all is one. The ancient Egyptians used these six pieces to represent the six senses, and an arithmetical notation. Each series had a fractional value. The parts of the eye were divided as follows: 1/2 represents smell symbolized by the right side of the eye in a form of the nose. The pyramid text says: "Behold fire rises in Abydos and it comes; I cause it to come, the Eye of Horus. It is set in order upon thy brow, O Osiris Khenti-Amenti; it is set in the shrine and rises on thy brow." 1/4 represents seeing, or the sensation of light symbolized by the pupil. The pyramid text says: "Perfect is the Eye of Horus. I have delivered the Eye of Horus, the shining one, the ornament of the Eye of Ra, the Father of the Gods." 1/8 represents thought symbolized by the eyebrow. The pyramid text says: "...the Eye of Horus hath made me holy...I will hide myself among you, O ye stars which are imperishable. My brow is the brow of Ra." 1/16 represents hearing symbolized by left side of the eye in a form of an arrow pointing towards the ear on the face. The pyramid text says: "That which has been shut fast/dead hath been opened by the command of the Eye of Horus, which hath delivered me. Established are the beauties of the forehead of Ra." 1/32 represents taste by the sprouting of the wheat or grain from the planted stalk symbolized by a curved tail. The pyramid text says: "Come, the Eye of Horus hath delivered for me my soul, my ornaments are established on the brow of Ra. Light is on the faces of those who are in the members of Osiris." 1/64 represents touch symbolized by a leg touching the ground. The pyramid text says: "I shall see the Gods and the Eye of Horus burning with fire before my eyes." As we add all fractions together we realize they add up to 63/64, not to 64/64 which is one (1). This round off practiced in the Old Kingdom has been attributed to the ancient Egyptians belief in not being able to attain perfection in life but in eternity. Also looking at the numbers we can see a patern (1/2, 1/4, 1/8, 1/16, 1/32, 1/64). Each following step is exactly ½ of the original (1/2 to 1/4, 1/4 to 1/8, 1/16 etc.). If we continue to divide by this ancient algorithm and keep summing up the parts (1/2 + 1/4 +1/8 …) we realize the great truth. It is the way to infinity. We come closer and closer to perfection/all (1), but we will reach it only in infinity (∞). The Egyptians later learned to exactly write any fraction without rounding off as was practiced in the Old Kingdom. The Middle Kingdom scribal records show the 1/64 rounded off term could be magically found and exactly replaced at any time, a process that allowed life to be ideal. The Akhmim (Cairo) Wooden Tablet, written in 2,000 BCE, formally solved the Old Kingdom round-off problem. Middle Kingdom conversions of fractions used a Horus-Eye binary series (quotient) and an Egyptian fraction series followed by a scaling factor named ro as exact remainders. The process is as follows:
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