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See also:HORUS (See also:Egyptian See also:Hor) , the name of an Egyptian See also:god, if not of several distinct gods. To all forms of Horus the See also:falcon was sacred; the name Her, written with a See also:standing figure of that
See also:bird, is connected with a See also:root signifying " upper," and
probably means " the high-flyer." The tame sacred falcon on
its See also:perch is the commonest See also:symbol of divinity in See also:early
hieroglyphic See also:writing; the commonest See also:title of the See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king in the earliest dynasties, and his first title later, was that which named him Horus. See also:Hawk gods were the presiding deities of Poi (Pe) and Nekhen, which had been the royal quarters in the capitals of the two primeval kingdoms of Upper and See also:Lower See also:Egypt, at See also:Buto and opposite El Kab. A See also:principal festival in very early times
was the " See also:worship of Horus," and the See also:kings of the prehistoric dynasties were afterwards called " the worshippers of Horus." The See also:Northern See also:Kingdom in particular was under the patronage of Horus. He was a See also:solar divinity, but appears very early in the See also:Osiris See also:cycle of deities, a son of See also:Isis and probably of Osiris, and opponent of See also:Seth. On monuments of the See also:Middle Kingdom or somewhat later we find besides Her the following See also:special forms: Har-behtet, i.e. Her of Beht, the winged solar disk, god of See also:Edfu (Apollinopolis Magna); Har-khentekthai, god of Athribis; Har-mesen (whose principal sacred See also:animal was a See also:lion), god of the Sethroite (?) See also:nome; Har-khentemna, i.e. the See also:blind (?) Horus (with a See also:shrew-See also:mouse) at Letopolis; Har-mert (" of two eyes ") at Pharbaethus; Har-akht, Ra-har-akht, or Har-m-akhi (HarlfRakhis, " Hor of the See also:horizon "), the See also:sun-god of See also:Heliopolis.
As a sun-god Horus not only worsted the hostile darkness and avenged his See also:father, but also daily renewed himself. He was thus identical with his own father from one point of view. In the See also:mythology, especially that of the New Kingdom, or of quite See also:late times, we find the following standing epithets applied to more or less distinct forms or phases: Harendotes (Har-ent-yotf), i.e. " Her, avenger of his father (Osiris) "; Harpokhrates (Har-p-khrat), i.e. " Her the See also:child," with See also:finger in mouth, sometimes seated on a See also:lotus-See also:flower; Harsiesis (Har-si-Esi), i.e. " Her, son of Isis," as a child; Har-en-khebi, " Her in Chemmis," a child nursed by Isis in the See also:papyrus marshes; Haroeris (Har-uer), i.e. " the See also:elder Her," at Ombos, &c., human-headed or falcon-headed; Harsemteus (Har-sem-teu), i.e. " Hor, uniter of the two lands," and others.
In the See also:judgment See also:scene Horus introduces the deceased to Osiris. To the Greeks Horus was See also:equivalent to See also:Apollo, but is the name of Hermopolis Parva (see See also:DAMANHUR), which must have been among the first of the Egyptian cities to be known to them, he was apparently identified with See also:Hermes. Although the falcon was the bird most properly sacred to Horus, not only its varieties, but also the See also:sparrow-hawk, See also:kestrel and other small See also:hawks were mummified in his See also:honour in late times.
See EGYPT: See also:section See also:Religion; See also:Meyer, See also:art. " Horos " in Rescher, See also:Lexicon der Griech. and Rom. Mythologie. (F. Li.
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