By identifying Horus as the offspring of these forces, then identifying him with Atum himself, and finally identifying the Pharaoh with Horus, the Pharaoh theologically had dominion over all the world. The gods produced by Atum were all representative of cosmic and terrestrial forces in Egyptian life. The lineage of Horus, the eventual product of unions between the children of Atum, may have been a means to explain and justify pharaonic power. New incarnations of Horus succeeded the deceased pharaoh on earth in the form of new pharaohs. The pharaoh as Horus in life became the pharaoh as Osiris in death, where he was united with the other gods. 2400–2300 BCE) describe the nature of the pharaoh in different characters as both Horus and Osiris. Horus may be shown as a falcon on the Narmer Palette, dating from about the 31st century BC. Nekheny may have been another falcon god worshipped at Nekhen, the city of the falcon, with whom Horus was identified from early on. "son of Isis" and Harsiese "Horus, Son of Isis". It also survives in Late Egyptian and Coptic theophoric name forms such as Siese As the language changed over time, it appeared in Coptic varieties variously as /hoːɾ/ or /ħoːɾ/ and was adopted into ancient Greek as Ὧρος Hōros (pronounced at the time as /hɔ̂ːros/). Additional meanings are thought to have been "the distant one" or "one who is above, over". Horus is recorded in Egyptian hieroglyphs as ḥr.w "Falcon" the original pronunciation has been reconstructed as /ˈħaːɾuw/ in Old Egyptian and early Middle Egyptian, /ˈħaːɾəʔ/ in later Middle Egyptian, and /ˈħoːɾ(ə)/ in Late Egyptian. However, Plutarch, elaborating further on the same tradition reported by the Greeks specified that the one "Horus" whom the Egyptians equated with the Greek Apollo was in fact "Horus the Elder", who is distinct from Horus the son of Osiris and Isis (that would make him "the Younger"). Ĭlaudius Aelianus wrote that Egyptians called the god Apollo "Horus" in their own language. In another tradition, Hathor is regarded as his mother and sometimes as his wife. The most commonly encountered family relationship describes Horus as the son of Isis and Osiris, and he plays a key role in the Osiris myth as Osiris's heir and the rival to Set, the murderer and brother of Osiris. The earliest recorded form of Horus is the tutelary deity of Nekhen in Upper Egypt, who is the first known national god, specifically related to the ruling pharaoh who in time came to be regarded as a manifestation of Horus in life and Osiris in death.
He was most often depicted as a falcon, most likely a lanner falcon or peregrine falcon, or as a man with a falcon head.
These various forms may be different manifestations of the same multi-layered deity in which certain attributes or syncretic relationships are emphasized, not necessarily in opposition but complementary to one another, consistent with how the Ancient Egyptians viewed the multiple facets of reality. Different forms of Horus are recorded in history, and these are treated as distinct gods by Egyptologists. He was worshipped from at least the late prehistoric Egypt until the Ptolemaic Kingdom and Roman Egypt. Horus or Heru, Hor, Har in Ancient Egyptian, is one of the most significant ancient Egyptian deities who served many functions, most notably as god of kingship and the sky. Ihy, Four Sons of Horus (Horus the Elder) Osiris and Isis, Osiris and Nephthys, Hathor He was usually depicted as a falcon-headed man wearing the pschent, or a red and white crown, as a symbol of kingship over the entire kingdom of Egypt. Horus was often the ancient Egyptians' national tutelary deity.
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