Horus the Elder’s Family Tree

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Family

• Geb(parent),Nut(parent),Isis(sibling),Nephthys(sibling),Osiris(sibling),Set(sibling)— Marriage

  Geb and Nut bore five children during the epagomenal days won by Thoth: Osiris, Horus the Elder, Set, Isis, and Nephthys, who became the central figures of Egyptian mythology.

• Isis(spouse),Duamutef(child),Hapy(child),Imsety(child),Qebehsenuef(child)— Consort · Miraculous

  Isis and Horus the Elder are the parents of Imsety, Hapy, Duamutef, and Qebehsenuef, the four funerary deities who guard the canopic jars holding the viscera of the dead.

  ⚠ Pyramid Texts attribute the Four Sons to Horus alone. Later Coffin Texts name Isis as mother. The 'Horus' in question is generally understood as Horus the Elder (Haroeris), not Horus son of Isis.

• Hathor(spouse)— Marriage

  Hathor, whose name means 'House of Horus,' was the traditional consort of Horus the Elder in Upper Egyptian theology, their sacred union celebrated at Dendera and Edfu temples.

Has aspect

• Horus

  Horus the Elder represents the primordial cosmic sky god form of Horus, predating the Osirian myth cycle that cast the younger Horus as son of Isis and avenger of Osiris.

Aspect of

• Min

  Min was identified with Horus the Elder at Coptos, with the Pyramid Texts referring to Min as 'Horus who is on his hill,' linking the ithyphallic fertility god to the elder falcon deity.

Enemy of

• Set

  Horus the Elder and Set waged a cosmic struggle that predates the Osirian cycle, tearing at each other until Set ripped out Horus's eye and Horus seized Set's testicles, neither able to destroy the other.

Associated with

• Eye of Horus

  The Eye of Horus traces to the left eye of Horus the Elder, the primordial falcon whose right eye was the sun and left eye the moon, its cycles of damage and restoration mirroring the lunar phases.

  ⚠ Pyramid Texts and Coffin Texts associate the Eye with Horus the Elder as a cosmic sky deity, while the Contendings of Horus and Set attributes it to the younger Horus, son of Osiris.