Fifth episode in the Turquoise Sun series. The Eye of Horus is an ideal test case for the theoretical power of a comparative approach to ancient myth—standing out as the single most important symbol in all of ancient Egyptian mythology that is catastrophic—from start to finish.
The Pyramid Texts describe The Eye as a terrifying astral power whose rampage at the dawn of time threatened to destroy mankind and throw the cosmos into confusion.
Moreover, the detailed parallels between Egyptian traditions describing the Eye of Horus and Sumerian traditions celebrating Inanna/Venus, emerge to chronicle the same celestial body.
A respected comparative mythologist, veteran Thunderbolts contributor Ev Cochrane is the author of Martian Metamorphoses (1997), The Many Faces of Venus (2001), Starf*cker (2006), On Fossil Gods and Forgotten Worlds (2010), Phaethon (2017), and most recently, The Case of the Turquoise Sun (2024).
