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Hamsa History

HAMSA AS GODS HAND

Historically a wide geographic area, included the Middle East, considered the Hamsa sacred hand symbol as the symbol of God's hand in the earth. It helped to make them feel the existence of God in everything and in every new formation. The Hamsa amulet was seen as the symbol of holiness, healing and miracles, which would pull the forces of good to the bearer and protect them from unseen dangers, disease, and neutralize the negative energies of envy and the forces of evil.

These symbols and belief slowly transmitted themselves into the Jewish religion and into the first great symbolic culture of the Egyptian Civilization

HAMSA WITH EVIL EYE AND ANCIENT EGYPT

The Sky god, Horos, tells us that man can never escape the eye of conscience, which is always open, and that eye monitors all human life

The sun and the moon are the eyes of Horus because the sun and the moon look down on humanity 24 hours a day like eyes from the sky. The Eye of Horus is also called the eye of the sun god Ra.

In ancient Egyptian mythology, Seth who represents ego, selfishness and evil, tried to gouge out Horus's eye so Horus gave his eye to his father Osiris.

The eye of Horus is a symbol that shows the uniqueness of God in the mathematical form.

Namely, if the whole is divided into two, obtaining a ½ and that 1/2 is divided into two obtained a ¼, and this is subsequently repeated for an 1/8, 1/16, 1/ 32 and 1/ 64 respectively.
The sum of these numbers is 63/64. Even if this sequence is continued to infinity the value one is never reached Therefore the only peremptory is that God is one.

HAMSA AS THE WOMAN’S HOLY HAND:

This universal amulet represented femininity and had extraordinary characteristics, it protected against the forces of evil for thousands of years, helped to secure peace and was said even to provide healing powers. It is still used as charm in many Middle Eastern countries today.

This special symbol of femininity, which protected people in the magical era transcended to the monotheistic religions and then through them up to the present day, with the main feminine figure becoming the Virgin Mary for Christianity and Fatima for Islam.

For Muslims Hamsa is the hand of Fatima and for Jews is the hand of Miriam who is the Prophet Moses’ sister. Hamsa is the hand of the holy woman in short.