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What Do Buddhists Believe About Horus?

Rival

Rival

Diex Aie
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JustGeorge said:
His beautiful feathers. :)

Tell me some more about him!
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Horu is a ****** who avenged the death of His father in a war with Set, who killed His father the Pharaoh Wesir (Osiris). They engaged in multiple contests where Horu used trickery to defeat Set. Pharaohs are essentially avatars of Horu.

He's also one of the oldest Gods in the Kemetic pantheon and His name means 'Distant One' or 'One Who Is Above'; He's probably the closest thing to the Indo-European Sky-Father. Falcon worship was known in pre-dynastic Egypt. His right eye is the sun and His left eye is the Moon; His left eye was wounded in a battle with Set which is why the Moon waxes and wanes. This left eye is known as the Eye of Horus and is associated with healing and regeneration, femininity and the Moon (albeit the Moon God is a male), while the right eye is the Eye of Ra and is associated with attack, fire, burning heat, masculinity etc.

"Egyptologist Richard H. Wilkinson comments on how "Horus was one of the earliest of Egyptian deities. His name is attested from the beginning of the Dynastic Period and it is probable that early falcon deities such as that shown restraining the `marsh dwellers' on the Narmer Palette represent this same god" (200). Rulers of the Predynastic Period in Egypt (c. 6000-3150 BCE) were known as "Followers of Horus" which attests to an even earlier point of veneration in Egypt's history." Horus

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JustGeorge

JustGeorge

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Rival said:
Horu is a ****** who avenged the death of His father in a war with Set, who killed His father the Pharaoh Wesir (Osiris). They engaged in multiple contests where Horu used trickery to defeat Set. Pharaohs are essentially avatars of Horu.

He's also one of the oldest Gods in the Kemetic pantheon and His name means 'Distant One' or 'One Who Is Above'; He's probably the closest thing to the Indo-European Sky-Father. Falcon worship was known in pre-dynastic Egypt. His right eye is the sun and His left eye is the Moon; His left eye was wounded in a battle with Set which is why the Moon waxes and wanes. This left eye is known as the Eye of Horus and is associated with healing and regeneration, femininity and the Moon (albeit the Moon God is a male), while the right eye is the Eye of Ra and is associated with attack, fire, burning heat, masculinity etc.

"Egyptologist Richard H. Wilkinson comments on how "Horus was one of the earliest of Egyptian deities. His name is attested from the beginning of the Dynastic Period and it is probable that early falcon deities such as that shown restraining the `marsh dwellers' on the Narmer Palette represent this same god" (200). Rulers of the Predynastic Period in Egypt (c. 6000-3150 BCE) were known as "Followers of Horus" which attests to an even earlier point of veneration in Egypt's history." Horus

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Interesting! I wouldn't have thought to equate him with the traditional 'sky father' role.

I like the bit about his eyes. Makes him seem very 'complete'.
 
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