Shamanistic Culture: Evil Eye

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Evil eye is as old as human history

Even in the oldest civilizations, it was believed to evil-eye. Since the Egyptian, Babylonian, Sumerian civilizations, it has been thought that the evil in the bad faith is reflected in the eyes of the bad people, and that it affects the good people and causes bad things to happen to them.

Good, beautiful, successful people are believed to be evil, and it is thought that to protect these people from the jealous gaze of the malevolent people it is necessary to oppose the eye, so try to avoid evil eye beads and eyebrows. The evil eye beacon protects the owner of the bonus by attracting the evil eye.

Horus' Eye

According to ancient Egyptian history, the eye of the evil eye symbolizes the Eye of the god Horus, which is a falcon with an eye and an eye and a sun. Horus's Eye has become the king of life after victory after winning the battle with Seth, the enemy of Horus.

İsabet-i Ayn

Evil-eye has entered the houses as a symbol protecting the people and places that oppose evil eyes in Jewish, Christian, Muslim, Buddhist and Hindu societies. The belief that the glance(bad luck) can be used as an evil eye to protect from the bad luck among the Turks, who call it Nazari, Isabet-i Ayn, extends to the period of Shamanism in Central Asia.

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