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The Eye of Ra — Orbital Guardian

The Eye of Ra — Orbital Guardian — an exploration from JitterSnap's Myths Rewired collection.

By JitterSnap2025-01-152 min read

The Signal

It was all seeing unblinking, blazing like the sun.. The eye of raw, protector of creation, destroyer of threats..

Ancient Echoes

But was it just a symbol or was it watching from above?.. An ancient Egyptian myth, Ra, the Solar God, sent his eye to punish those who turned against cosmic order... The eye wasn't metaphor, it was an entity, an extension of divine will, but also a weapon... Some texts describe the eye as a blazing force that traveled swiftly, observed all, and reduced cities to smoke..

The Unfolding

Modern scholars often interpret this as myth, but across cultures we see the same symbol of flaming disc flying above, the Sumerian sun chariot, the Vedic Vimana, the star of fire from Mesoamerican texts... What if the eye of Ra was a surveillance node, a satellite left behind, capable of scanning thought, delivering divine punishment with frightening precision?.. The Egyptian said the eye sometimes acted on its own, that Ra had to recall it before it wiped out everything... And it wasn't always alone... Some texts suggest the eye had daughters, multiple autonomous systems, segment, Bastet, Hathor, different moods, different functions, all eyes of raw... So what was it protecting?.. Egyptian myth says it guarded my eye, balance... Maybe it was preserving signal integrity, ensuring that human behavior didn't destabilize the system..

The Question

And maybe it's still up there, watching, judging, waiting.
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