If you’ve ever wondered which is which, what each one represents, or why they matter, this post will walk you through everything you need to know.

The Eye of Ra: The Solar Eye of Power and Protection

The Eye of Ra is the embodiment of the sun, blazing across the sky as a watchful and protective force. It is typically associated with the right eye, corresponding to the bright, unblinking vigilance of the daytime sun.

A Weapon of Divine Wrath

Unlike the soothing connotations we often assign to eyes in modern symbolism, the Eye of Ra carries an intensity that borders on ferocity. It is a symbol of:

• Protection
• Destruction of threats
• Divine authority
• Fury unleashed to preserve order

In myth, Ra sends his Eye forth, not as a metaphor, but as a living, divine force. This Eye often takes the form of a goddess commissioned to crush the enemies of Ma’at (cosmic order). Many goddesses step into this role at different times, earning the title “Eye of Ra.” Some of the most famous include:

• Bastet
• Sekhmet
• Hathor
• Tefnut
• Wadjet
• Mut

Each goddess expresses the Eye’s power differently. Bastet’s protection is warm and watchful; Sekhmet’s is blistering and unstoppable. But all operate as Ra’s defenders, linked by the Eye’s solar, fiery nature.

A Symbol You Wear for Protection

For modern practitioners or spiritual seekers, the Eye of Ra serves as a talisman of strength, courage, and the ability to cut through negativity. It is the symbol you wear when you want the sun at your back, warm, powerful, and fierce.

The Eye of Horus: The Lunar Eye of Healing and Protection

Where the Eye of Ra burns, the Eye of Horus heals—this symbol is tied to the moon, usually represented as Horus’s left eye, the eye injured in one of the most dramatic myths of ancient Egypt.

A Myth of Loss and Restoration

During the legendary conflict between Horus and Set (known as the Contendings), Set damages or tears out Horus’s left eye. The violence of the act parallels the moon’s darkening, a celestial wound in the sky.

But this is not the end of the story.

The god Thoth (Djehuty), patron of wisdom and magic, restores the injured eye using powerful heka. This restored eye becomes a symbol of:

• Healing
• Wholeness
• Regeneration
• Protection
• Balance restored after chaos

The cycle of the moon echoes this myth perfectly:

• waning = the Eye damaged
• waxing = the Eye restored

How the Eye of Horus Became a Symbol of Medicine

Because it was healed and renewed, the Eye of Horus became a longstanding symbol of health and medicine. Its shape even influenced the modern prescription symbol “Rx,” believed to be a stylized form of the Wedjat.

Today, people wear it as a charm for:

• Good health
• Recovery
• Spiritual balance
• Protection

(And yes, pairing it with an Ankh is very fitting, since the Ankh symbolizes life.)

A Mythic Twist: When Horus’s Eyes Are Both Sun and Moon

Egyptian mythology wasn’t a single, unified canon — it varied by time period and temple tradition. In some stories, Horus’s right eye is the sun and his left eye is the moon, giving him dominion over the skies day and night. This overlap with Ra likely developed from syncretism between Horus, the sky god, and Ra, the sun god.

This is why you may find seemingly contradictory stories: it’s not inconsistency — it’s evolution.

So What’s the Difference, Really?

Here’s the simplest way to remember them:

Both provide protection, but in different ways:

• Ra protects by force.
• Horus protects by restoring.

Where Does Bastet Fit In?

Because she is one of Ra’s daughters and one of the goddesses who can take on the role of the Eye of Ra, Bastet is deeply tied to the solar protective force. However, she also appears in myths involving the Eye of Horus, even rescuing or carrying it in some stories.

This means either symbol is perfectly appropriate to associate with Bastet. The choice depends on which aspect you want to honor:

• Eye of Ra → Bastet the Protector
• Eye of Horus → Bastet the Healer and Guardian of the Home

Neither is disrespectful. In fact, many pendants are designed so that the orientation can be interpreted either way.

Why These Symbols Still Matter

The endurance of the Eye of Ra and the Eye of Horus isn’t just about aesthetics — though their designs are undeniably striking. These symbols survive because they speak to universal themes:

• The need for protection
• The process of healing
• The struggle between chaos and order
• The cycles of nature, life, and personal growth

Whether you approach them from a spiritual path, a cultural interest, or a symbolic perspective, both Eyes offer layers of meaning that remain powerful today.

The Eye of Ra and the Eye of Horus are sister symbols, connected yet distinct. One burns with solar fury; the other glows with lunar healing. Together, they reflect a complete vision of protection: one that destroys what threatens and one that restores what’s broken.

And that is why they remain two of the most compelling symbols in the ancient world — and why people still feel drawn to them today.

The ancient Egyptians are well known for their superstitions, and they didn’t do anything without first consulting the good luck calendar.

The ancient Egyptians had a 365-day calendar, with 12 months in a year. They had three seasons with four months in each season. Whereas we have Winter, Summer, Spring, and Fall, the ancient Egyptians had the seasons of growth, harvest, and flood.

As you can see, they were very much like us. However, that being said, their calendar didn’t match up with our own. We start our new year in January. But their first month of the year was what works out to be July for us.

We know this because Egyptologists were able to calculate and convert the days of the ancient Egyptian year and align them with our modern-day calendar.

And what makes that great is that we can now use their ancient good luck calendar for ourselves!

This was a calendar that was meant to determine whether each day would be a good day or a bad day to embark on a certain activity.  The day of the year could be seen as ….

• Favorable
• Mostly favorable
• Very favorable
• Adverse
• Mostly adverse
• Very adverse

This data came from what we call today the Cairo Calendar, which is a nineteen dynasty Egyptian almanac that lists religious feasts, mythological incidents, favorable or adverse days, forecasts, and warnings.

Ancient Egyptian Good Luck Calendar

It was the burial place of pharaohs and many others in Egypt’s New Kingdom (18th-20th Dynasties). The Valley of the Kings lies on the west bank of the Nile (25°45′ N, 32°36′ E), across from modern Luxor. There are many valleys in the rugged Theban hills adjacent to the Nile, and there are several reasons why the Valley of the Kings was selected from among them as the site of the royal burials.

There are actually two Valleys of the Kings: the West Valley (WV), which is by far the larger of the two, in which were cut at least three royal tombs; and, immediately beside it, the much smaller East Valley (KV), in which over sixty tomb entrances were dug. The East Valley is the better known of the two.

KV 1, Ramesses VII: Type 3, 40m long; open since antiquity.

KV 2, Ramesses IV: Type 3, 66m long; an ancient plan of this tomb is found on a papyrus now in Turin; never completely cleared, but accessible in Graeco-Roman times.

KV 3, a son of Ramesses III: non-royal, 37m long; cleared by Harry Burton (1912).

KV 4, Ramesses XI: Type 3, 93m long; open since antiquity, cleared by the Brooklyn Museum expedition (1979).

KV 5, originally a late 18th Dynasty tomb, reused by Ramesses II for at least three of his sons: largely inaccessible since then; unique, complex plan; clearance by the Theban Mapping Project began in 1989.

KV 6, Ramesses IX: Type 3, 86m long; open since antiquity, cleared by Georges Daressy (1888).

KV 7, Ramesses II: Type 3, over 100m long; one of KV’s largest tombs, partly dug in 1913, but still largely uncleared.

KV 8, Merenptah and perhaps Isinefret, his wife: Type 3, 115m long; open since antiquity, dug by Howard Carter (1903).

KV 9, double tomb of Ramesses V and Ramesses VI: Type 3, 104m long; open since antiquity, cleared by Daressy (1898).

KV 10, Amenmesse and family members: Type 3; open since antiquity, currently being cleared.

KV 11, Sethnakhte, completed by Ramesses III: Type 3, 125m long; open in antiquity, but never fully cleared.

KV 12, Unknown. Thought to be from the 18th dynasty.

KV 13, perhaps tomb of Bay (under Tawosret): seriously damaged by flooding in 1994.

KV 14, Tawosret and her husband Seti II, then usurped by Sethnakhte: Type 3, 110m long; some digging in 1909.

KV 15, Seti II: Type 3, 72m long; perhaps the digging of this tomb was started, abandoned, then hastily resumed but never completed; open in antiquity, cleared in modern times.

KV 16, Ramesses I: 29m long; dug by Giovanni Belzoni (1817).

KV 17, Seti I: Type 2, one of the largest and longest KV tombs (over 230m, including an enigmatic passageway extending 90m beyond the burial chamber); dug by Belzoni (1817).

KV 18, Ramesses X: 20th dynasty.

KV 19: Mentuherkhepshef, a son of Ra-messes IX, was perhaps hastily buried in this hardly begun (20m long) and never finished tomb; found by Belzoni, cleared by Edward Ayrton (1905).

KV 20, Tuthmose I: Type 1, 200m long; perhaps the first tomb dug in the Valley of the Kings, later usurped and enlarged by Hatshepsut; first dug by James Burton (1824), later by Carter (1903).

KV 21, Unkown (2 royal females) – 18th dynasty.

KV 22 / WV 22, begun by Tuthmose IV, the tomb was used by Amenhotep III (but probably not by others of his family): Type 1, 100m long; discovered in 1799, cleared by Carter in 1915.

KV 23 / WV 23, Ay: 55m long; discovered by Belzoni (1816), but not cleared until 1972.

KV 24 / WV 24, Unknown

KV / WV 25, possibly begun for Amenhotep IV, although Tuthmose IV or one of his sons, Amenhotep III, Smenkhkare, or Tutankhamen have also been suggested: unfinished; found by Belzoni (1817) and only recently cleared.

KV 26, Unknown

KV 27, Unknown

KV 28, Unknown

KV 29, Unknown

KV 30, Unknown

KV 31, Unknown

KV 32, Tia’a – New Kingdom, Dynasty 18, Amenhotep II

KV 33, Unknown

KV 34, Tuthmose III: Type 1, 55m long; cleared by Loret (1898).

KV 35, Amenhotep II: Type 1, 60m long; reused as one of the two caches in which priests of the 20th Dynasty reburied royal mummies; opened by Loret in 1898.

KV 36, Maiherpri

KV 37, Unknown

KV 38, perhaps dug by Tuthmose III for the re-burial of Tuthmose I (moved from KV 20): Type 1; cleared by Loret (1899).

KV 39, Unknown

KV 40, Unknown

KV 41, Unknown

KV 42, perhaps intended for Hatshepsut, but never used by her; may have been used by the mayor of Thebes, Sennefer, and his family: Type 1; cleared by Carter (1900).

KV 43, Tuthmose IV: Type 1, 90m long; cleared by Carter (1903).

KV 44, Unknown

KV 45, Userhet / Merekhons. New Kingdom, Dynasty 18, Thutmes IV (or early during the reign of Amenhetep III). Third Intermediate Period, Dynasty 22, Osorkon I

KV 46, Yuya and Tuya, parents of Amenhotep III’s wife, Tiye: they were buried at different times (Yuya first), and shortly after the last interment the tomb was plundered of valuable items, later robbed again, resealed in the reign of Ramesses III, robbed yet again and finally resealed by Ramesses XI; when found by Theodore Davis (1905), it still contained numerous artifacts.

KV 47, Siptah and his mother: Type 3, 89m long; dug by Ayrton (1905), Harry Burton (1912) and Carter (1922).

KV 48, Amenemopet

KV 49, Unknown

KV 50, Unknown

KV 51, Unknown

KV 52, Unknown

KV 53, Unknown

KV 54, a small pit, in which embalming materials of Tutankhamen were buried: opened in 1907.

KV 55, this small unfinished tomb is late 18th Dynasty, but its attribution (to Tiye or Akhenaten or Smenkhkare) and true purpose remain hotly debated: cleared by Ayrton for Davis (1907). Amarna Cache.

KV 56, Unknown, Gold Tomb

KV 57, Horemheb: Type 2, 114m long; elegant examples of wall decoration in various stages of completion; dug by Ayrton for Davis (1908).

KV 58, Unknown

KV 59, Unknown

KV 60, Sitre/In – New Kingdom, Dynasty 18

KV 61, Unknown

KV 62, Tutankhamen: the most famous (and most carefully recorded) tomb in the Valley of the Kings; twice robbed, but nevertheless found almost perfectly intact by Carter in November 1922; still largely unpublished.

KV 63, Unknown

KV 64, Nehemes-Bastet

KV 65, Unknown

KV A, Unknown

KV F, Unknown

“People around the world are still wondering how the Egyptian pyramids were made. As one of the biggest mysteries in the world, these pyramids are still one of the biggest riddles that even the most experienced scientists can’t seem to figure out.”

Wait … what?

Are there still people out there that really don’t know how the pyramids were built?

The irony was that this website even had this picture (shown below) that actually perfectly illustrates just how it was done.

While it’s true it took 2.3 million stone blocks to build the Great Pyramid of Giza and each of these blocks weighed from 2.5 to 15 tons.

But you have to remember they built these as a community type project. When farmers couldn’t work because of the flood the government put them to work building.

We’ve known how this was done for years, so it just surprises me that people are still putting out stories that it’s some big mystery.

Here is a video that will go over just how it was done, just in case you don’t know.