Hi Ritva
who said that the Eye
> > of Horus was anything to do with units of
> length?
> Are you trying to be funny?
??
> In case not, let me explain this way: the Eye of
> Horus represents fractions i.e. 1/2, 1/4 etc all
> the way to 1/64.
Two to the power of 6.
These fractions, as far as I
> know, are tools to calculate. Right?
Yes ...
Why does one
> specificly have to say, that the Eye of Horus is
> or is not usable in units of length, which are....
> calculable.
Or are you saying that the fractions
> present in EoH are only usable to calculate
> weight? Or something else?
> The royal cubit is the EoH without it's missing
> 1/64.
Can you see the difference
> between a funerary monument and the Nilometer? Do
> you think the Egyptians differentiated on those?
> (At this point I assume your answer to be "Yes"...
> if not then we are in deep trouble!) And would you
> think, then, that in the "sacred" department of
> building and measuring they could have used
> measures, that were directly connected to
> divinities and entering the afterlife?
It appears that they used the Royal Cubit ...
> You have not understood one word I have written,
> have you?
On the contrary: I understood very well!
The royal cubit IS the Eye of
> Horus.
Well, this is where we part company, I'm afraid! Unless I'm much mistaken, I don't know of any reliable evidence pointing to a connection between the Eye of Horus and the Royal Cubit.
"The restored eyes of Horus become, in singular form, the symbol for a state of soundness or perfection - the 'udjat' eye ... However, it is only from the inscriptional evidence that we get some idea of the diversity and complexity of meaning. For example, the eye of Horus can stand for:
The strength of the monarch
Concept of kingship
Protection against Seth
Royal purification agent
Offerings at the festival of the waxing moon
Wine" (Hart, Dictionary, 93)
Hart omits any mention of the fractional connection, but MC Betro picks up the thread: "In an elegant graphic form it was also used in the measuring grains: the parts of the eye ... were each given the value of a fraction: the sum of the whole - equivalent to the recomposition of the eye by Thot - corresponded to the whole unit. In reality, the sum of the six fractions is 63/64; the Egyptians presumed that Thot's magic made up the remaining 1/64". (1996: 55)
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