deity
Horus
The named Egyptian sky and kingship god often shown as a falcon. Not Ra as the sun disk alone, and not falcon as bare animal.
Also known as Heru
Egyptian religion
Horus appears in Egyptian religion.
Herodotus’s Egyptian logos names Horus among the gods of Egypt and pairs him with Greek Apollo in interpretatio speech without collapsing that pair in this attestation row. A named horus in that traveler’s speech, not falcon as the sacred-bird keep-apart already walked and not apollo-horus as the separate historically_related_to claim.
from Herodotus · Histories, c. 440s BCE
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Apollo is historically related to Horus.
Herodotus pairs Egyptian Horus with Greek Apollo in the Egyptian logos — an interpretatio claim, not a merger. A named historically_related_to meeting beside apollo hellenic appears_in already held by other sources.
from Herodotus · Histories, c. 440s BCE
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Hawk is sacred to Horus.
Plutarch’s On Isis and Osiris seats the hawk as Horus’s bird — hierax speech in Egyptian cult as that Greek treatise tells it. A named hawk–Horus cult link under this source, not falcon as a forced second silhouette and not a generic raptor dump.
from Plutarch · On Isis and Osiris, c. 100 CE
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Sun is historically related to Horus.
Plutarch’s On Isis and Osiris links Horus with sun speech among Egyptian celestial allegories in the treatise — Horus as a solar figure beside hawk and Apollo equations. A named sun–Horus figure under this source, not Osiris-as-sun forced against the moon seat and not a birthday sun-sign dump.
from Plutarch · On Isis and Osiris, c. 100 CE
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Contending of Horus and Seth is historically related to Horus.
The contending names Horus as the rightful son who fights Seth for inheritance — a named episode→Horus historical relation in funerary court memory, not a Herodotus/Plutarch Apollo–Horus interpretatio restatement.
from Raymond O. Faulkner (translation) · Book of the Dead, New Kingdom spells; Faulkner trans. 1972
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Falcon is sacred to Horus.
The Book of the Dead’s Horus image is falcon-formed — the falcon as sacred animal of Horus in funerary vignettes, not a hawk-Horus Plutarch restatement alone and not falcon appears_in egyptian already walked as this dedication edge.
from Raymond O. Faulkner (translation) · Book of the Dead, New Kingdom spells; Faulkner trans. 1972
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Wedjat is sacred to Horus.
The Book of the Dead’s wedjat is the Eye of Horus — restored eye amulet and offering speech sacred to Horus, not wedjat represents eye alone and not a missing protection mint.
from Raymond O. Faulkner (translation) · Book of the Dead, New Kingdom spells; Faulkner trans. 1972
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sources
- Histories · Herodotus
Herodotus, Histories.
- On Isis and Osiris · Plutarch
Plutarch, On Isis and Osiris (Moralia).
- Book of the Dead · Raymond O. Faulkner (translation)
Raymond O. Faulkner, The Ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead.