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Horus is an ancient god of the Ancient Egyptian religion. The most well known name is the Greek Horus, representing the Egyptian Heru / Har, which is the basic element in most of ... - Horus
The name 'Horus' is a general catchall for multiple deities, the most famous of whom is Harseisis (Heru-sa-Aset) or Horus-son-of-Isis (sometimes called Horus the Younger) who was ... - Horus - Crystalinks
Horus - He Who is Above. The falcon-headed Sky God. Horus is the god of the sky, and the son of Osiris, the creator (whose own birth was thought due to the Ogdoad).
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Horus, in Egyptian mythology, god of the sky and of light and goodness. One of the major Egyptian deities, Horus was the son of Isis, the nature goddess, and Osiris, the god of the underworld. After Osiris was murdered by his evil brother Set, the god of darkness and evil, Horus avenged his father's death by killing his uncle. Worshiped throughout Egypt, Horus was usually depicted as a falcon or a falcon-headed man. Another representation of him, an infant with a finger held to his lips, was known as Harpocrates by the Greeks and Romans.
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