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The Udjat Eye
Professor Ignacio Barraquer, founder of the Center in 1941 and big fan of Egyptian art, he chose as an emblem Udjat Eye Clinic Barraquer, and whose legend is as follows:
According to Egyptian mythology, Osiris and Seth's brothers married sisters Isis and Nephthys the. King of Egypt Osiris and Isis had a son named Horus. Seth, jealous of his brother Osiris, got locked in a sarcophagus that plunged into the Nile When Isis heard what had happened to her husband, went in search of the sarcophagus and having found him hiding in a thicket of papyri waiting to tell your son Horus.
Seth, who had the habit of hunting in these parts, found the body of his brother and so could prevent Isis resurrect her husband, dismembered him, scattering his remains in different regions. Isis, with the help of Thoth, the god of science, brought together the remains of her husband and was resurrected, so Osiris was the god of the dead.
Horus, to avenge the death of his father, declared war on Seth. Horus won, but in the race lost an eye. Thot bringing different parts of the eye, managed to rebuild the power of magic. This eye rebuilt, has been the symbol of the normal eye completely healthy.
Udjat eye, the eye is healthy, is a medallion found with other chest, hanging from the neck of Pharaoh Ankn-Tout-Amon. On one side is placed Nekhbet the vulture goddess and across the snake goddess Oudjit that are symbols of Upper and Lower Egypt.
The amulet shaped eye Udjat use appears to have been universal in all ages. The Egyptians had to get him healthy vision and protection against the evil eye. According to this myth, the different parts of the eye have taken a mathematical value, each one has a fraction of the complete unit is the eye of Udjat, the sum of these fractions for a total of 63 / 64. It is assumed that 1 / 64 was supplied by the magic of Thoth.
