Horus offered his restored Eye to Osiris in the underworld, and the Wedjat's power revived the dead king, establishing the Eye of Horus as the supreme funerary offering that nourishes and resurrects the deceased.
The Eye of Horus appears in the Book of the Dead as a powerful protective symbol, with Spell 167 invoking its restorative power to heal and protect the deceased in the afterlife.
The Eye of Horus is presented in the Hall of Two Truths as an offering to sustain Osiris, its restorative power linked to the judgment that determines the fate of the deceased.
The Eye of Horus traces to the left eye of Horus the Elder, the primordial falcon whose right eye was the sun and left eye the moon, its cycles of damage and restoration mirroring the lunar phases.
⚠ Pyramid Texts and Coffin Texts associate the Eye with Horus the Elder as a cosmic sky deity, while the Contendings of Horus and Set attributes it to the younger Horus, son of Osiris.
Isis used her healing magic to help restore the Eye of Horus after Set tore it out during their conflict, her divine power contributing to the Eye's return to wholeness.
⚠ The Contendings of Horus and Set primarily credits Thoth with the restoration; Isis's role appears in some Coffin Text variants.
Set gouged out the Eye of Horus and tore it into pieces during their eighty-year battle for the throne of Egypt, an act of violence against the principle of cosmic order.
Thoth gathered the scattered pieces of the Eye of Horus and restored it to wholeness using divine magic, the healed eye becoming the Wadjet — 'the Whole One.'
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