Horus Mundus (Oedipus Aegyptiacus)

The central figure is a young man with shoulder-length hair, depicted standing frontally on a square block or pedestal. He is nude, with his right arm raised holding a cornucopia overflowing with produce and his left arm bent with his hand near his neck. On the face of the pedestal are two symbols: a plant-like stalk on the left and a geometric figure consisting of a triangle above a circle on the right. The text 'HORVS' appears to the left of the figure and 'MVNDVS' to the right, all enclosed within a circular border.

This emblem appears in Athanasius Kircher's encyclopedic work 'Oedipus Aegyptiacus' (1652–1654), which attempted to decipher Egyptian hieroglyphs as a primordial, universal language containing the secrets of theology and natural philosophy. It reflects the 17th-century Hermetic obsession with reconciling Egyptian mythology with Christian and Neoplatonic worldviews.