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50:21 · An Egyptian hieroglyph, called the Horus eye, for the eye of the sun god Horus, was in the 1960s taken up by subcultures in Western countries using illicit drugs like LSD. They used it as a general symbol for altered or higher states of awareness.
    The original Egyptian hieroglyph was often distorted graphically, as this variation shows, the real hieroglyph depicting the left eye.
    Compare with for find from a US computer technology context, and with 24:13 from the same context, indicating that a symbol has been found.

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