Hitchhiker's Guide to Religion
Egyptian

Horus

The Avenger

Egyptian Kingship, Sky, War, Protection, Vengeance
Portrait of Horus
Attribute Value
Combat
ATK 90
DEF 85
SPR 82
SPD 92
INT 80
Rank Sky God / Living King
Domain Kingship, Sky, War, Protection, Vengeance
Alignment Mythological
Weakness Lost his left eye fighting Set (the Eye of Horus)
Counter Set (his eternal adversary)
Key Act Avenged his father Osiris by battling Set in a series of contests; lost his eye but ultimately won the throne of Egypt
Source Pyramid Texts; Chester Beatty Papyrus I; Edfu Temple inscriptions

“The Eye that was lost, that was torn out, that was healed — it became the symbol of wholeness itself.”

Horus is the falcon-headed god of the sky, son of Osiris and Isis, conceived after Osiris’s death and raised in secret to avenge his father. His battle with Set for the throne of Egypt is the central myth of Egyptian kingship — every living Pharaoh was considered the incarnation of Horus, and every dead Pharaoh became Osiris. The Eye of Horus (the Wedjat), lost in combat with Set and restored by Thoth, became the most ubiquitous protective symbol in Egypt, representing healing, wholeness, and restoration. The image of Isis holding the infant Horus — the divine mother and the sacred child who would grow to defeat evil — is the visual ancestor of the Madonna and Child, a connection that art historians have documented extensively.


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