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*HORUS*

*"The Falcon god"***

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*By*

*Dr. Zahi Hawass*

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The god Horus is one of the most famous gods of ancient Egypt. Egypt Air
has taken Horus as its Logo because of it ancient symbolism, as a winged
god of the Sky, Horus, was this and more. The name "HORUS" stems from
the ancient Egyptian word hr (her) which in its simple form was the
preposition "above", "upon" so Horus the falcon soars above all the land
and its inhabitants, and was, the natural symbol of the King who reigns
over all Egypt.

It is also the perfect symbol for Egypt Air which flies throughout Egypt
and the World.

Every pharaoh was an incarnation of Horus, who according to legend
conquered Seth the evil god of Upper Egypt. Seth was god of turmoil and
confusion who murdered Osiris, Horus's father. Horus avenged his
father's death and became the god of order and justice. Therefore the
pharaoh in Ancient Egypt became Horus on earth, the ruler of the two
lands (Upper and Lower Egypt).

Horus, represented by the hawk, was the god of the Sky, a symbol of
divine Kingship, and protector of the ruling King. -

The name Horus also means the forsighted, where one eye represents the
Sun and other represents the Moon. The Sun was Known as "Horakhty", or
Horus in the Horizon., Horus was considered as the god of the east and
the rising Sun. Horus has the Shape of a falcon or a hawk or can take a
human Shape with a falcon.

Horus was the god of the Nile Delta (Lower Egypt) and Seth was the god
of Upper Egypt, but Horus became the Symbol of Kingship and the King of
Upper and Lower Egypt because it was he who united the two Kingdoms.

The Kings of the predynastic Egypt were known as the followers of Horus.
In this period, Horus was known as the son of Isis and Osiris and
inherited the throne of his father.

Horus also was connected with the goddess Hathor. She was the eye of the
Sun god Re, the wife of the living King, and the mother of coming King.
Her name was written with the hieroglyph* *of the Horus falcon inside a
rectangle-mean "house" or "mansion" of Horus.

Horus, in the shape of a falcon was worshiped in Hierakonpolis in Upper
Egypt (north of Edfu). Archaeologists found a golden head of a falcon
inside the temple in Hierakonpolis, and the name of the city means "City
of the Hawk". Another temple was built for Horus in the city of Behdet
(now Damnhour in the Nile Delta), where Horus was represented in the
shape of a winged Sun disk. The modern name Damnhour itself "town of
Horus" derives from the ancient Egyptian dmi-Hor.

Horus took anew form in the late Period (747 B.C.), when he became a
popular god and was represented as a naked child standing above a
crocodile holding in his hands snakes, scorpions and lions.

Therefore Horus became known as a healer for the people with snake bites
and scorpion stings.

One of the most famous scenes of Horus is the representation of the
falcon (Horus) perched on a throne behind the head of King Khafre, the
builder of the second pyramid at Giza.

The falcon embraces the King with its wings in order to fly with him to
the Sky. Another scene shows Isis nursing Horus. She and Hathor nursed
and raised him to take revenge on his uncle Seth, the evil King of Upper
Egypt, who killed Osiris, Horus's father.

Ancient Egyptian literature relates great battles between Horus and Seth
and how Horus conquered Seth and united the two lands of Egypt.
Therefore he was also known as Horus the fighter.

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