Horus and the Pharaohs

In Ancient Egypt the evolution of divine kingship enabled the sovereign to claim that his status as rule was approved of by the chief gods and that furthermore he himself was a god and one of their number. Horus relieved the first necessary by a prosperous  legal processes  before  the  gods: the  pharaoh  therefore  was  in a excellent position, being seen as a demonstration of the living Horus on the throne of Egypt.

According to the Turin Canon the late Predynastic rules of Egypt were followers of Horus. By the time of the unification of Upper and Lower Egypt in 3000 BC the  ruler  was Horus.  On  the  palette  in Cairo  Museum,  which  shows  King Narmer, the first ruler of a for good merged  Egyptian  state,  the  god  Horus  is shown holding a rope that passes through the  nose  of  the  out  northern  rival, symbolising  the  kings  victory  over  the Delta.  From  this  period  ahead  the Kings name is enclosed by the symbol of  the  Horus  falcon,  surmounting  a rectangular  form  which  has  a  base  part indicating a hard wall. This was called the serekh or proclaimer of  the  pharaoh, whose  make  was  written  in  the  upper section of the rectangle.

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