18k gold eagle pendant adorned with turquoise, lapis lazuli, and coral precious stones. the eagle is the animal form of God Horus. Horus was said to be the sky, he was considered to also contain the Sun and Moon. It became said that the Sun was his right eye and the Moon his left and that they traversed the sky when he, a falcon, flew across it. Later, the reason that the Moon was not as bright as the sun was explained by a tale, known as The Contendings of Horus and Seth.
