, “he lightens up the earth with his two eyes,” an expression most frequent in the texts, is not confined to special moments, though it is said of these emphatically.
In all that has been said thus far, the Two Eyes have been considered as acting conjointly and discharging one and the same function. When they are distinguished one from the other as acting in different ways the symbolism is altered.
The ancient scholion on the 17th Chapter speaks of the Right Eye of Rā, and the more recent scholion of the papyri speaks of the Eye as being in pain and weeping for its sister
. The Egyptian name for the Eye is here
