Eye of Ra and Eye of Horus
According to myth Ra was once a Pharaoh of Egypt and ruled. But when he aged the respect of his people was waning. When they started to mock him, he became angry and plucked the snake on his brow, the uraeus snake, and send it down to earth to punish them. The snake was born previously by removing his own eye to let it look for his missing children. The Eye of Ra rampaged and Ra saw the carnage, he pitied humanity and relented. He called the eye back, but the eye, now in form of a feline, was in a blood frenzy and was deaf to his words. To calm the monster and prevent the extinction of humanity, the gods and remaining men filled the fields with 7000 jugs of beer, stained with pomegrenade juice, so it looks like blood. The Eye drank all of it and intoxicated it slept for three days. Afterwards the Eye woke up calmed and humanity was safed. This myth continued on and several goddesses took on the mantle of the 'Eye of Ra' or 'Daughter of Ra'. The Eye of Ra became a title as the female extension of the Surpreme God's Will. Over time the Kings equated themself with Ra and his female consort became the respective goddess at that time. Great King Ozymandias equated his Beloved with Hathor, who held the title of Eye too, next to others like Bastet, Sekhmet, Nekhbet and Wadjet. But the mother, sister or daughter could take on the name as well.
The Eye itself is the representation of the destructive aspect of the unrelenting Sun itself, that burns skin and earth withfierce heat and shine. It also has protective and beneficial aspects when worn as a trinket.
The Eye of Horus is similar, yet different to the Eye of Ra. While the EoR represents the Sun, the EoH is said to be the Moon. According to myth Horus lost an eye in his fight against Seth. It was then restored with the help of other gods and the cycles of the moon is the representation of the process of destroying and restoring the Eye of Horus. Therefore it symbolizes protection, magic and healing. After the fight some myths say that the torn eye was offered to Osiris in the Afterlife so he can rule again. This great gift would later be remembered in the Egyptian rituals that would equate every gift as an Eye of Horus itself. The protective aspects of the Eye of Horus, that is in essence a 'Good Eye' was to counter the 'Evil Eye', a phenomenon known across the globe. The User of the Evil Eye can curse others with malicious gazes of hate or greed, but wearing the Eye of Horus protects from it.
The Vessel - Canaan
During a war in the Middle East, there was a small village that was completely destroyed. The lone survivor was a little girl. One soldier rescued her and trained her to become a soldier. The little girl discarded her name and became Canaan. Her mentor, Siam, taught her many things and with her ability of synesthesia, she was beyond normal human capabilities. One day Siam was killed by a woman, a former student of his and Canaan was unable to stop her. Despite his teachings to not act on revenge, she pursued it against that woman that was named Alphard. Years later she would meet a kind girl and befriended her, Maria Oosawa was her name. For years they did not see each other, but by a chance encounter they met again in Shanghai. Here a story began that revealed the nature of Canaan to Maria, her journey to accepting it and stopping the plans of the terrorist organization of Alphard.
The Divine Spirit - Nekhbet
The Vulture Goddess Nekhbet ("She of Nekheb") was a patron of Upper Egypt and was therefore often depicted with the 'Hedjet' (The White Crown of Upper Egypt), which also gave her the nickname of 'The White'. Together with her Counterpart Wadjet, who is the patron of Lower Egypt, she was one of the 'Two Ladies'. She is one of the oldest goddesses in Egypt, dating back to at least the Predynastic Period. Besides having protective aspects for the whole of Upper Egypt, she was also said to be the protector of royal children and later of all children and expecting mothers. She was often depicted with the Shen in her talons, a symbol of Protection to signify her position. Her aspect as an Eye of Ra can be seen in some depictions of her hovering above the Pharaoh when he rides into battle. Her connection to the Eye of Horus is made clearer in her Epithet such as 'The Health-bringing Eye of Horus'. That is the only reference of her birth still alive in mythology. Nothing is known how she came to be. One can only theorize that she perhaps too was credited with the creation of the world, due to her title as 'Mother of Mothers, Father of Fathers', which several deities have. The Truth is much more literal. She is the Eye of Horus that was torn out of Horus in his fight against Seth. It fell to Earth and like the birth of the First Eye of Ra, it became a goddess. As an independent part of Horus, she took on aspects of the new King Horus, before he became a King. This granted her aspects and authority of the sky and protection.
One may say that the Eye of Horus is the sibling of the Eye of Ra. Nekhbet is a reincarnation of the Left Eye of Ra, while Wadjet is the Right Eye of Ra. While the Right Eye if the Destructive aspect of the Creator God, the Left is the Protective Aspect and the 'seeing' Eye, that would later be inherited to the next Divine Kings. The next would be the god that is known as Osiris and the one after was Horus. As such despite being unborn at that time, Nekhbet has vague memories of the day when Atum died and Ra was born.
The Birth of the Servant
After the events that were depicted in
Canaan, the world decided that the role of Canaan's world line has fulfilled it's purpose and decided to prune it. When the Egyptian Pantheon noticed a disturbance in the world, only they could counteract according to the World itself, they searched for a fitting host for the one with the Eye of Horus to counter the Evil Eye. But none were compatible enough to be worthy of the powers of The Eye of Horus. So Thoth decided to make use of an artifact, that is more powerful that the gods. The Shining Pillar of their realm, the Feather of Ma'at. The Feather was the Pillar that fixed the concept of 'Time' and '
' to the surface of the World. It would be used in the Afterlife to 'weigh the soul' by looking potential lives the soul has lived in the different timelines that are adjacent to this world line. If the soul was deemed evil across the timelines, it would be devoured by the beast Ammit. If the soul was balanced or good, the feather would simulate a mirror image of their previous life for them, by copying the 'best life' they had across the timelines.
Thoth, who was know as 'The Master over Ma'at' was able to control the Pillar of Time and observed other timelines and found Canaan to be likely compatible. They reached out to her and explained what will happen to her world and that her powers are needed. Canaan agreed to help under the condition that those close to her will be taken with her. The gods agreed and used the power of Thoth, Horus and other gods to move them over and record them into the Throne. Afterwards Horus decided that Nekhbet had better compatibility with Canaan and told her that she now has to fulfill the task at hand in his stead. Despite that, their connection was not fully established at first, but one god took on the role as her new Mentor and
Watched over her, until the connection with the Divine Spirit Nekhbet is fully established.
Originally Posted by DelRey
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