moon, morning or evening stars, the southeast and the northwest.

In the sacred writings the sun is usually termed "the right eye" and the
moon "the left eye" of Ra (_cf._ hra=the (divine) face). Brugsch points
out that, in certain inscriptions at Denderah translated by Mariette, "the
Sothis star of Hathor-Isis is designated as 'the right eye of Ra' while
the sun is termed the left eye."

Brugsch states, moreover, that, according to Sextus Empiricus, "the
Egyptians compared the king to the 'right eye' or the sun; while the queen
was compared to the 'left eye' or the moon." The two eyes, often with the
designation of "right" or "left," constitute a favorite decoration on
funeral stelae. In some instances the image of the solar disk, with one
wing and one serpent only, is figured as a substitute for the right eye
(_op. cit._ II, 436, see fig. 62, 6). The established fact that the eyes
of Ra were the equivalents of the uraei usually accompanying the circle of
Ra, the so-called "solar disk," is further explained by the following
data.

It is well known that the two uraei on the royal diadem denote sovereignty
over Upper and Lower Egypt. In the bas-relief published by Brugsch, the
circle or Ra-sign is represented with two uraei, which respectively wear
the crowns of Upper and Lower Egypt (fig. 70, 7). The crowned uraei recur
in the emblems of Upper and Lower Egypt published by Mr. Goodyear, the
first accompanied by the lotus flower and the second by what Egyptologists
usually identify as the papyrus, but which appears to be the ripened pod
of the lotus (fig. 70, 9 and 10). While the two uraei thus emblematized the
two divisions of the land of Egypt they are found as distinctly associated
with Osiris and Isis, and their living images the king and queen, or the
high priest and high priestess of Amen-Ra. The Berlin Museum contains
several representations of Isis under the form of a serpent with a woman's
head (see official catalogue, nos. 7740, 870 and 2529). Osiris is also
represented as a serpent with the head of a bearded man.

A small shrine in the form of a temple, and decorated with royal serpents,
is preserved at the Berlin Museum (catalogue no. 8164) and contains the
effigies of two uraei, one of which, to the left of the spectator, exhibits
the head of Isis, the second, to the right, the features of Osiris.
Between them stands the vase or bowl which was a constant feature of Isis
cult.

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