With the Milk of a Gazelle, Hathor Heals Hoor’s Eyes on the Hoor-Eyes-On

Oils, egg tempera, milk (cow and human), gold leaf, on mounted canvas, professionally framed for the inaugural I:MAGE Fulgur Exhibition London 2013. 120cm x 79cm.

Original Available, $2500 (Enquiries odxob@yahoo.com).

Published in ‘Distillatio’ (Fulgur Press 2015). Text therefrom below.

Also appears in ‘Art of the Occult’ (S.Elizabeth, White Lion 2020)

The Ancient Egyptian text ‘The Contendings of Horus and Seth’ (Papyrus Chester Beatty I) tells a strange tale of the healing of Hoor/Horus’ eyes by Isis after His epic battle with Set. Where lay Horus’ sundered eyes, Lotuses grew from mounds in the earth, and on these fed a Gazelle. Horus in His rage after battling Set, angered at Isis’ compassion for His enemy, beheaded Her.

However She immediately took the head of Hathor (His Lover, whereas Isis is His Mother), milked the Gazelle and with this healed Horus’ eyes, which are traditionally associated with the Sun and the Moon, now blooming upon the crepuscular Horizon.

A tiny milky nerve-plexus lotus begins to grow in the back of His eye-socket, while a venomous scorpion echoes His own posture in the merging of apparent dualities with medicinal poisons. The swan-like Alchemical vessel with which She extracts the milk is echoed in the similarly semi-transparent segmented vessel of the scorpion’s exoskeleton, through which runs a blood-red thread from sting-tail to red Set head.

Hathor (Hut-hoor) means House of Horus, ie. the Sky, and She holds His solar orb betwixt Her horns, rebirthing His vision.
The lunar ritual involved in the creation and consecration of this work is a prayer for the healing and transformation of the Warrior spirit, an aspect of human nature that must be channelled and focused for positive ends, rather than denied or suppressed.

Some details from this rather large painting