Like many other gods, the nature of Horus, as well as his stories and legends, has been changing with the development of history.Horus can be seen as a combination of many other gods related to imperial power and the sky.Most of these gods are sun gods.
ancientEgyptian mythologyIn the early days, he, together with Osiris, Seth, Isis and NefertisCover clothAnd the children of Nuth, and the second son of Gebu and Nuth,CelekateLater he became the son of Osiris and Isis, the husband of Hathor.
Heru ur (also called Harmerti Hamerdi) is the earliest version of Horus. He is a falcon shaped god of creation.His eyes are the sun and the moon.Whennew moonWhen he appeared, he became a blind man, called Mekhenty er irty (meaning the blind);And when heVisual acuity recoveryAt that time, he was also called Khenty irty.BlindnessHorus was very dangerous. He sometimes mistook his friends for enemies and attacked them.He isCover clothAndNootHis grandson is Letopolis）The patron saint of.
Horus in childhood is called Har pa kheredGreekHarpocrates in Chinese), which is Osiris andIsisOr Banebdjetet and Hatmehit's son.He is depicted as a naked boy with fingers, sitting with his motherLotusOn.Horus in this form is a fertility god, who often carries a cornucopia.stayImperium RomanumDuring the period, the image of Har pa Khered was widely spread, when he was depicted riding a goose or a headRam(Note that his father Banebdjetet is a ram god).
Later Horus wasAbsolute positioningFor the body of Osiris and the son of IsisLocust tree）。This is often cited as "the Horus" in many academic works.
As Har nedj itef (called Harendotes in Greek), Horus isOsirisThe guard of Duat in the underworld.
As Behedti, Horus is Behdet (now Edfu), where his image is closely linked with the falcon.
As a Chenti rti, Horus was an eagle god in charge of law and order.
Later, Horus began to interact with the sun godPULL(Ra), especially inHeliopolis(Heliopolis), which was initially called Ra Herekhty (also called Ra Heru akhety, Her akhety (meaning Horus on the double horizon), Har em akhet (meaning Horus on the horizon)Horakhety、Harmachis），Toward the sun god.
Once upon a time, in the sacredthe NileThere is a beautiful and mysterious kingdom on the bank, which isAncient Egypt。greatHeliosPULLDispatched messengerOsirisHe ruled the land with his wife Isis.One day, Osiris's brotherSeteWhen he came to this peaceful land, Osiris took him in.However, Osiris to Seth's wifeNefertisWith evil thoughts in his heart, Seth finally killed his brother at a banquet for his wife: Seth made a beautiful coffin made of precious wood, which was decorated with beautiful thingsgemstoneAnd gold, which was tailored to his brother's figure, he declared at the banquet that "the person who can perfectly lie in the box will get this coffin".He shut his brother inside, covered the lid, washed it with boiling lead water, and threw it into the Nile.Osiris' wifeIsisThe body of Osiris was found in the jungle, then hid in the swamp and prepared to revive her husband.But Saite who went hunting found it.He divided his brother into 14 pieces and threw them into all corners of Egypt.Although Isis found his corpse again, only 13 pieces were found,genitalsSome were eaten by fish.AnubisHelp Isis mix the minced meat togethermummyShroudThe first mummy was made, so Osiris only revived for one night and gave birth to a son, Horus, to avenge him.(Osiris' 14th trunk, penis not found, Isis usedOlive woodCarve one instead)
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But as Horus grew up, Isis missed Osiris andSethAt last, on the day when Horus came of age, she told her smart, handsome and tall son everything.After hearing this, Horus was very angry and wanted to go back to Egypt to avenge his fatherToteAt this time, Tote, the god of wisdom, appeared in front of him and told him that he could not fight the ferocious Seth with his current strength. The first task was to find the double crown of the royal power and the one with divine powerwandAnd flail.Horus traveled all over the world and met the god of music and danceBest, Goddess of HeavenNoot, atmospheric godShu, LunaKearnsEven the Father of All GodsPULLGod found his father either through devout worship, or through fearless fighting, or through human wisdomOsirisThe double-sided crown, the hook and flail with divine power, symbolize the royal powerTrade windCome to Butu City, a small city located in the south of ancient Egypt. The residents of the city are eager to return to their hometown in the age of Osiris.The arrival of Horus brought hope to all the people in the city. Horus won the support of the residents of the city. Soon, other towns around him also joined in. So Horus had his own army. He led this brave army to the capital of Egypt, Thebes.Before that, the weapons used by the ancient Egyptians were primitive stone tools. Horus first invented the use of iron and installed it on the tip of an arrow.WarlikePractical proofThis weapon is powerful and easy to use.Horus's army came to Thebes, and Seth gathered his own army. In order to win, Seth used magic to make soldiers strongcrocodileandHippo。A great war has begun.This cruel war lasted for seven years. In the final battle, Horus used the magic power given by his father Osiris to turn into a sun disk with wings, flew up to the sky, and killed Seth cruelly with royal power and flail.The battle was seen by the passing Ra Shen. After the war, Ra Shen had to appoint Horus as the new king of ancient Egypt to rule this fertile and magnificent land.
Horus and Sekhmet
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The omnipotent sun godPULLBy virtue of its powerful powerCreatorHe created heaven and earth, created gods and people, and ruled them wisely.God has ruled for tens of thousands of years;At last, the body of Ra Shen is declining in years, and the old glory is replaced by the aging, and the prosperity is replaced by the disintegration. So after the human race to worship Ra Shen, they begin to mercilessly laugh, quarrel, slander... Ra Shen is finally angry, and he sent his daughterSekhmet(Sekhmet) To punish human beings.The lion god Sekhmet is the most ferocious among the goddesses. She is as violent as a lioness, and her hobby is to drink human blood.Sekhmet took action. She came to the world and ruthlessly destroyed the enemies of Ra Shen. The earth was full ofvictimThe bones of the dead,Ancient EgyptIt became a sea of blood.Horus, the king of ancient Egypt, was also unable to defeat the lioness because she had the divine mantra of Ra, so Horus came to Heliubis, the city of the sun, to ask for help from the almighty Ra, but the old Ra was also powerless, because the mantra was given to Sekhmet as a gift when Ra was young, to protect her from being harmed by the will of Ra,Now Sekhmet acts recklessly by the will of God Ra, and the old God Ra cannot withdraw the will protected by the curse.When there is nothing to do, the God of WisdomToteAppeared, he said, in the distantphilae There is a kind of sleep fruit (namelypomegranate）The color of his juice is the same as human blood. You can mix it with wine to make Sekhmet think it is human blood and drink it, so that she can fall asleep, thus relieving God's will.But to reach the distant Philae Island, you must pass through the twelve kingdoms of the Night Kingdom, which is no longer under the jurisdiction of Ra Shen and is now being possessed of powerful powerdeity in the form of a snakeApophis ruled.To pass through these twelve kingdoms, we must find twelve night goddesses. They are river gods, and only they know the way through these twelve kingdoms.Therefore, Horus embarked on the journey of looking for the fruit of sleep. In order to save mankind, he will go forward.After a contest of wisdom, Horus won the trust of the twelve night goddesses and began to travel through the night kingdom.Horus successively passed through twelve dark kingdoms, namely, the river of Ra Shen, the kingdom of Wunus, the magical river, the country of graveyards, the country of concealment, the country of fountains, the country of caves, the country of paradise, the country of rapids, the country of Ra Shen, the country of caves, and the country of resurrectionSobek, Fierce Arnett God, Evil God Babala God, Cemetery GodChafalconGod, the resurrection god Halabi, the rebellious Heliubis bull, all kinds of evil and ferociousSnake demonAnd the powerful snake god Apophis, the ruler of the Kingdom of Night.Horus came to Philae Island after countless deadly battles, picked sleeping fruits and brought them back to Sun City.Horus followed the method of Thoth, the god of wisdom, and mixed the juice into the barley wine of the seven kilometer Keyale. He poured the wine into the vast fields as human blood, and tricked Sekhmet to drink it. Sekhmet got drunk and fell asleep after drinking, and the purpose of being protected by the divine spell was lifted.
Eye of Horus
Horus andHathor There are four sons. In Egypt's belief about funerals, they keep the viscera of the dead in four pots:Amshett(Liver)Hapi (Lung)Domtev(stomach)Kebsanna(gut).
