The Four Sons of Horus — Imsety, Hapy, Duamutef, and Qebehsenuef — protected the canopic jars holding the deceased's organs, serving their father Horus in the funerary rites.
⚠ Coffin Texts Spell 157 names Isis as mother and identifies the father as Horus the Elder, diverging from the Pyramid Texts tradition of Horus alone.
Horus and Hathor were worshipped as a divine married couple at the temple of Edfu. Their son Ihy was the child god of music and joy celebrated in Dendera's rituals.
⚠ Edfu and Dendera temple inscriptions name Horus as father; Akhmim temple texts substitute Min as the father in the local triad.
Isis conceived Horus posthumously with the reassembled body of Osiris, then raised him in secret in the Delta marshes to one day avenge his father and reclaim the throne.
In the Contendings of Horus and Set, Horus's seed entered Set through trickery, and Thoth emerged from Set's forehead as a golden disc.
⚠ The Contendings tradition is one of several competing accounts of Thoth's origin. Hermopolitan theology presents him as self-created, and Coffin Text spells describe him as emerging from Ra.
Horus and Ra merged as Ra-Horakhty, "Ra-Horus of the Two Horizons," representing the sun god in his full daytime splendor as a falcon.
The Great Sphinx was identified as Horemakhet — Horus-in-the-Horizon — from the New Kingdom onward, the colossal lion body housing the falcon god who rises with the sun between the two mountains of the horizon.
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.
Min was syncretized with Horus at Coptos as Min-Horus, combining Min's virile, protective role with Horus's championing of legitimate kingship in a local fusion attested in temple reliefs.
Isis championed Horus before the Ennead during the Contendings, using disguise and cunning to trick Set into condemning himself and securing the divine tribunal's verdict in her son's favor.
Nephthys aided Isis in raising and protecting the infant Horus, supporting his claim to the throne despite being Set's wife.
Osiris intervened from the underworld during the Contendings of Horus and Set, sending a threatening letter to the Ennead to secure the throne for his son Horus.
Nekhbet and Wadjet, the Two Ladies, spread their wings over every pharaoh as the living Horus — the vulture of Upper Egypt and the cobra of Lower Egypt flanking the royal brow, shielding the king from all who would harm him.
Bes protected the infant Horus from evil spirits during his vulnerable childhood in the Delta marshes, his image appearing on cippi alongside Horus standing on crocodiles as talismans against danger.
Isis hid and raised the infant Horus in the papyrus marshes of the Nile Delta, protecting him from Set's agents until he was old enough to claim the throne.
Taweret helped protect the infant Horus after his birth in the Delta marshes, her terrifying hippopotamus form driving away Set's agents who sought to destroy the divine child before he could claim his father's throne.
Horus and Set battled for eighty years over the throne of Egypt in the Contendings, fighting as hippopotami in the river, in the courts of the gods, and through cunning and magic until the Ennead awarded Horus his father's crown.
The Ennead sat as divine tribunal in the Contendings of Horus and Set, deliberating for eighty years over which god should inherit Osiris's throne before finally awarding the kingship to Horus.
Horus offered his restored Eye to Osiris in the underworld, and the Wedjat's power revived the dead king, establishing the Eye of Horus as the supreme funerary offering that nourishes and resurrects the deceased.
Atum presided over the divine tribunal in the Contendings of Horus and Set, weighing the claims of both gods to the throne of Osiris before ultimately affirming Horus as rightful king of Egypt.
Horus inherited the Crook and Flail from Osiris after the divine tribunal awarded him the throne, the regalia passing from the dead king to his living successor.
Horus raised the Djed Pillar for his father Osiris in the ritual of resurrection, the act of erecting the backbone symbolizing the son's restoration of the murdered king and his own claim to legitimate succession.
Geb, as the first divine king of Egypt, awarded the throne to Horus following the Contendings of Horus and Set, affirming Horus as the rightful heir of Osiris.
When the gods could not resolve the dispute over Egypt's throne, Neith ruled that Horus should inherit his father Osiris's kingship, her ancient authority lending decisive weight to the verdict.
Serket helped cure the infant Horus from scorpion stings in the Delta marshes, as recorded on the Metternich Stela and other cippi of Horus.
When the infant Horus lay dying from a scorpion's sting in the marshes of Khemmis, Thoth descended from the solar barque and spoke the words of power that drew the venom from the child's body, restoring him to life.
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