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    Myths About Eyes

    I am really interested, since i cannot seem to find much more online about the myths/legends behind eyes than the Eye of Horus, i was wondering if anyone has any information regarding the eyes of people....what was said about them in ancient times, what were the myths surrounding a persons eyes?

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    There are the myths of the Evil Eye and all of the gestures and artifacts used to ward them off.
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      I was told as a kid that full blood blue eyed cherrokee were supposed to come from an island in the atlantic that sunk. my mom said it meant they were from atlantis. (lol) she really does belive that, too.

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        Then there is the "All seeing Eye" Though I am not sure if that is just from the Movie "The thief of Baghdad"

        Well,it seems there is something called "The all Seeing Eye"



        It is supposed to be what is on the one dollar bill.

        And the Eye of horus

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          I am blanking on the country, but somewhere in the world, it was believed that people with blue eyes could see ghosts.
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            Originally posted by Taliesyn View Post
            I was told as a kid that full blood blue eyed cherrokee were supposed to come from an island in the atlantic that sunk. my mom said it meant they were from atlantis. (lol) she really does belive that, too.
            I take it your mom missed the news about Atlantis being found in a Spanish swamp?
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              Historically in Europe (at least) it was believed that some kind of ray, called "eye beams" shot out of your eyes and actually touched the things you look at. You'll find diagrams in DaVinci's notebooks, and references to this idea in Shakespeare.

              It's the idea that vision works from inside out, rather than from outside in, that leads to the idea that the eyes have power to project one's will.
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                Originally posted by David M.K. View Post
                I take it your mom missed the news about Atlantis being found in a Spanish swamp?
                heh- i missed that news too. or i might have heard something. it came out recently right? i think one of my clients mentiuoned the article.

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                  Thank you all so very much for your inputs on the subject, i am wondering though, am i the only one who has heard that "the eyes are a window to the soul"? I cannot for the life of me remember where i heard it from, but it has stuck with me for a long time

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                    Originally posted by MichaelRusso View Post
                    Thank you all so very much for your inputs on the subject, i am wondering though, am i the only one who has heard that "the eyes are a window to the soul"? I cannot for the life of me remember where i heard it from, but it has stuck with me for a long time
                    That's a fairly common saying, but I don't know where it's from.

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                      Originally posted by Taliesyn View Post
                      heh- i missed that news too. or i might have heard something. it came out recently right? i think one of my clients mentiuoned the article.
                      It was found last year.
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                        Originally posted by Peri_Dot View Post
                        That's a fairly common saying, but I don't know where it's from.
                        imaginary swedish scientists

                        Other than them though, variations of that line go back a long way.

                        hopefully these people are relatively accurate since I'm too lazy to fact check them
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                          Originally posted by MichaelRusso View Post
                          I am really interested, since i cannot seem to find much more online about the myths/legends behind eyes than the Eye of Horus, i was wondering if anyone has any information regarding the eyes of people....what was said about them in ancient times, what were the myths surrounding a persons eyes?

                          Grimm speculates that the sun was the one-eyed God at one time. There's also the myth of Odin giving his eye for knowledge.

                          Cool fact that isn't folklore: all people with blue eyes are related. The gene comes from one man that lived several thousand years ago.

                          Edit: The dailymail is a junk "entertainment" paper. Sort of as bad as the Enquirer and its Bigfoot Alien baby stories.

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                            blast, it's more entertaining if that article is halfway to legit. Oh well, it's still funny. I'll modify the link to reflect the lack of legitimacy.

                            Update: Post modded to 'imaginary Swedish scientists"
                            life itself was a lightsaber in his hands; even in the face of treachery and death and hopes gone cold, he burned like a candle in the darkness. Like a star shining in the black eternity of space.

                            Yoda: Dark Rendezvous

                            "But those men who know anything at all about the Light also know that there is a fierceness to its power, like the bare sword of the law, or the white burning of the sun." Suddenly his voice sounded to Will very strong, and very Welsh. "At the very heart, that is. Other things, like humanity, and mercy, and charity, that most good men hold more precious than all else, they do not come first for the Light. Oh, sometimes they are there; often, indeed. But in the very long run the concern of you people is with the absolute good, ahead of all else..."

                            John Rowlands, The Grey King by Susan Cooper

                            "You come from the Lord Adam and the Lady Eve", said Aslan. "And that is both honour enough to erect the head of the poorest beggar, and shame enough to bow the shoulders of the greatest emperor on earth; be content."

                            Aslan, Prince Caspian by CS Lewis


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                              It's long been thought in many parts of the world that a person staring at someone would be a way to lay a curse on someone. This would later be known as the evil eye. In the case of Horus his eyes represent the sun and moon; the left being the moon and the right the sun. Some other possible meanings some other possible meanings.
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