Horus ruled the living and his father Osiris ruled the dead. He protected the reigning pharaohs, and appears as . In this limestone tablet, Horus, the ancient Egyptian sky god, also known as Re or Ra, is pictured as a falcon headed man wearing a wig and the double crown of Egypt. The right eye represents a Peregrine Falcon’s eye and the markings around it, that includes the “teardrop” marking sometimes found below the eye. As the wedjet (also udjat or utchat), it also represented the sun, and was associated with Horus’ mother, Isis, and with wedjet another goddess, as well as the sun deity Ra (Re). The mirror image, or left eye, sometimes represented the moon and the god Tehuti
