Horus is the Falcon-God ‘Lord of the Sky’ and symbol of divine
kingship. The name Horus is a latinized form of the greek ‘Hores’
which in turn derived from the egyptian ‘Hor’. This name comes from
the same root as the egyptian word for ‘the high’ or ‘far away’.
Horus was represented either as a falcon-headed man or as a falcon.
The sky was represented by the wings of Horus and his two eyes
symbolized the sun and the moon, with the right eye being the sun
and the left, the moon. The phrase ‘the eye of Horus’ usually refers
to the moon eye. It was this eye that was lost to Seth and later,
after being recovered, presented to Osiris to aid him in his
resurrection. The falcon was sacred to Horus from the earliest times
and the image of a falcon on its perch became the hieroglyp symbol
representing the word ‘God’. In ancient Egypt, the Pharaoh was seen
as a manifestation of the ‘living Horus’ on the throne of Egypt and
each succeeding Pharaoh used the name of Horus as the first of his
titles.


 

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