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Horus
Horus is one of the most ancient deities of the Ancient Egyptian religion, who appears in his earliest form in late Predynastic Egypt. Represented as a falcon, his name is believed to mean 'the high' or 'the far off' and his earliest connections are to the sky and kingship, derived from being the son of Hathor or Nut, as a sun god. Because the cult of Horus survived for the whole of the Ancient Egyptian civilization that extended for ten thousand years, he gained many forms and associations.
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Har-pa-khered
[Egyptian] "Horus the Child". The form of Horus as a young boy, distinguished from Horus as an adult. He is portrayed as a naked child with a finger in his mouth, sitting on a lotus flower or on the knee of his mother Isis. He was invoked to ward off dangerous creatures. As the son of Osiris he was also a vegetation god, portrayed with a jar or a horn of plenty. In the New Empire he became very popular and his cult was expanded substantially during the time of the Roman Empire. Statuettes of Har-pa-khered from the Greco-Roman period depicted him riding on a goose or a ram. The Greeks called him Harpocrates (Harpokrates).


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