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HARPOCRATES

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Originally appearing in Volume V13, Page 15 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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HARPOCRATES , originally an See also:

Egyptian deity, adopted by the Greeks, and worshipped in later times both by Greeks and See also:Romans. In See also:Egypt, Harpa-khruti, See also:Horus the See also:child, was one of the forms of Horus, the See also:sun-See also:god, the child of See also:Osiris. He was supposed to carry on See also:war against the See also:powers of darkness, and hence See also:Herodotus (ii. 144) considers him the same as the See also:Greek See also:Apollo. He was represented in statues with his See also:finger on his mouth, a See also:symbol of childhood. The Greeks and Romans, not understanding the meaning of this attitude, made him the god of silence (See also:Ovid, Metam. ix. 691), and as such he became a favourite deity with the later mystic See also:schools of See also:philosophy. See articles by G. Lafaye in Daremberg and Saglio's Dictionnaire See also:des antiquites, and by E. See also:Meyer (s.v. Horos ") in See also:Roscher's Lexikon der Mythologie.

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