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Horus The Egyptian God

Published on Nov 19, 2015

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HORUS ORIGN. HE WAS BORN TO GODDESS ISIS AFTER SHE RETRIEVED ALL THE DISMEMBERED BODY PARTS OF HER HUSBAND, OSIRIS.

ISIS USED HER MAGIC POWERS TO RESURRECT OSIRIS AND A FASHION A GOLD PHALLUS TO CONCEIVE HER SON.

ONCE ISIS KNEW SHE WAS PREGNANT WITH HORUS, SHE FLED TO NILE DELTA MARSHLANDS TO HIDE FROM HER BROTHER SET

WHO JEALOUSLY KILLED OSIRIS AND WHO SHE WOULD WANT TO KILL THEIR SON. THERE ISIS BORE A DIVINE SON, HORUS

SKY GOD.HORUS SAID TO BE THE SKY, HE WAS ALSO CONTAIN THE SUN AND MOON.IT ALSO BECAME SAID THAT THE SUN WAS HIS RIGHT

EYE AND MOON HIS LEFT,AND THAT THEY TRAVERSED. THE SKY WHEN HE, A FALCON, FLEW ACROSS IT.LATER , THE REASON THAT

MOON WAS NOT AS THE SUN WAS NOT AS BRIGHT AS THE SUN WAS EXPLAINED BY A TALE, KNOWN

AS THIS CONTESTING OF HORUS AND SET.ALSO ORIGINATING AS THE METAPHOR FOR THIS CONQUEST OF UPPERR EGYPT BY

LOWER EGYPT IN ABOUT 3000BC. HORUS WAS ULTIMATE VICTOR HE BECAME KNOWN AS HARSIESSIS BUT IS TRANSLATED AS THE

HORUS THE ELDER. IN THE STRUGGLE SET HAD LOST AS TESTICLE, EXPLAINING WHY THE DESERT

WHICH SET REPRESENTED IS INFERTILE.HORUS' LEFT EYE HAD ALSO BEEN GOUGED OUT, THEN A NEW

EYE WAS CREATED BY PART OF KHONSU , THE MOON GOOD, WAS REPLACED.

GOD OF WAR AND HUNTING. HORUS WAS ALSO BE GOD OF WAR AND ALSO HUNTING. THE HORUS FALCON IS SHOWN

UPON A STANDARD ON THE PRESYNASTIC HUNTERS PALETTE IN THE LION HUNT.

THUS HE BECAME A SYMBOL OF MAJESTY AND POWER AS WELL AS THE MODEL OF THE PHARAOHS. THE PHARAOHS WERE SAID TO IN

HUMAN FORM. ALSO FURTHERMORE NEMTY A ANOTHER WAR GOD, WAS IDENTIFIED AS HORUS

CONQUER OF SET. HORUS WAS TOLD BY HIS MOTHER, ISIS, TO PROTECT OF EGYPT FROM SET, THE GOD OF

THE DESERT, WHO HAD KILLED HIS FATHER OSIRIS. HORUS HAD MANY BATTLES WITH SET,

NOT ONLY TO AVENGE HIS FATHER, BUT TO CHOOSE THE RIGHTFUL RULER OF

EGYPT. IN THESE BATTLES, HORUS CAME TO BE ASSOCIATED WITH LOWER EGYPT

(WHERE HORUS WAS WORSHIPPED), AND BECAME ITS PARTON. ONE OF SCENE HOW HORUS WAS

ON THE VERGE OF KILLING SET; BUT HIS MOTHER AND ALSO SET'S BROTHER,ISIS STOPPED HIM

ISIS ALSO INJURED HORUS, BUT EVENTUALLY HEALED HIM. ACCORDING. TO PAPYRUS CHESTER- BEATTY I

SET IS DEPICTED AS TRYING TO PROVE HIS DOMINANCE BY SEDUCING HORUS AND THEN HAVING INTERCOURSE WITH

HIM. HOWEVER, HORUS PLACES HIS HAND BETWEEN HIS THIGHS AND CATCHES SET'S SEMEN, THEN SUBSEQUENTLY THROWS IT IN THE

THE RIVER, SO THAT HE MAY NOT BE SAID TO HAVE BEEN INSEMINATED BY SET. HORUS THEN DELIBERATELY SPREADS HIS OWN SEMEN

ON SOME LETTUCE, WHICH WAS SET'S FAVORITE FOOD. AFTER SET HAD EATEN THE LETTUCE, THEY WENT TO GODS TO TRY TO SETTLE

THE ARGUMENT OVER THE RULE OF EGYPT. THE GODS FIRST LISTENED TO SET'S CLAIM OF DOMINANCE OVER HORUS,

AND CALL HIS SEMEN FORTH, BUT IT ANSWERED FROM THE RIVER, INVALIDATING HIS CLAIM. THE, THE GODS LISTENED TO HORUS'S

CLAIM OF HAVING DOMINATED SET, AND CALL HIS SEMEN FORTH, AND IT ANSWERED FROM INSIDE SET.HOWEVER, SET STILL REFUSED TO

RELENT, AND THE OTHER GODS WRE GETTING TIRED FROM OVER EIGHTY YEARS OF FIGHTING AND CHALLENGES. HORUS AND SET

CHALLENGED EACH OTHER TO A BOAT RACE, WHERE THEY EACH RACED IN A BOAT WAS MADE OF STONE. HORUS AND SET AGREED,

AND THE RACE STARTED.HORUS HAD AN EDGE: HIS BOAT WAS MADE OF WOOD PAINTED TO RESEMBLE STONE, RATHER THAN TRUE STONE

SET'S BOAT, BEING MADE OF A HEAVY STONE, SANK, BUT HORUS' S DID NOT. HORUS THEN WON THE RACE ,AND SET STEPPED DOWN AND

OFFICIALLY GAVE HORUS THE THRONE EGYPT.BUT AFTER THE NEW KINGDOM, SET STILL WAS CONSIDERED LORD OF THE DESERT AND

IT'S OASES.IN THIS MYTH, ALONG WITH OTHERS, COULD BE AS AN EXPLANATION OF HOW THE TWO KINGDOMS OF EGYPT( UPPER EGYPT

AND LOWER) CANE TO BE UNITED. HORUS WAS SEEN AS THE GOD OF LOWER EGYPT, AND SET AS THE GOD OF UPPER EGYPT.ALSO IN

THIS MYTH, THE RESPECTIVE UPPER AND LOWER DEITIES HAVE A FIGHT, THROUGHOUT WHICH HORUS IS THE VICTOR.HOWEVER,

SOME OF HORUS(REPRESENTING LOWER EGYPT) ENTERS INTO SET( UPPER EGYPT) THUS EXPLAINING WHY LOWR EGYPT IS

DOMINANT OVER UPPER EGYPT. SET'S REGIONS WERE THEN CONSIDERED TO BE OF THE DESERT.