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Horus

The Falcon · The Avenger of His Father

majorattestedc. 2400 BCE onward (Pyramid Texts)Egyptian religion

The falcon god, son of a murdered father and a relentless mother. Conceived after Isis rebuilt the dismembered Osiris, hidden in the marshes of the Delta until he was strong enough to claim what Set had taken, he fought his uncle for eighty years before the tribunal of the gods. Every living pharaoh sat on his throne as Horus; every dead one lay in the tomb as Osiris.

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✦Signature powerDivine DomainHolds sovereign power over a sphere of the living world.

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Its universe

The mythic order Horus belongs to, who comes before and after in the story of this world.

Rathe sun, the first sovereign

Voices & connections

Figures bound to Horus, family and rivals within the myth, and the thinkers and writers who shaped how we know them.

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Illustrated storyThe Death of OsirisThe good king is tricked into a coffin measured to his own body, sealed in at a banquet by his brother Set, and carved into fourteen pieces scattered the length of the Nile. Isis, the great enchantress, finds thirteen of them and rebuilds her husband with words of power. He does not come back to life; he becomes the reason there is life after it — first mummy, judge of the dead, father of his own avenger.Begin reading →