Showing posts with label Horus as Sky god. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Horus as Sky god. Show all posts

Horus as Sky god

From advance Egyptian prehistory times, the (concretist) understanding of the existence (described above) led to a complex recognition between deities, their animal delegacies / incarnations, and factors of the natural order. It was in this linguistic context that Horus, the best-famous of the falcon-headed gods, emerged. As a sky god, he "was supposed as a heavenly falcon whose right eye was the sun and left eye the moon. The laced feathers of his breast were probably stars and his flies the skywith their downsweep making the winds". The popularity of Horus led to his last eclipsing of different other falcon gods, including Nekheny (literally "falcon"), the frequenter of Nekhen (the city of the hawk), and Khenty-Kety, the sponsor of Athribis. One bad symbol affiliated with Horus in his divine incarnation was the djed pillar, which was understood to represent the "pillar holding the sky old the earth".

These divine connotations were searched in greater point in the myths, rituals, and iconographic portraying that characterized Horus as a solar deity.

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