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  2. Horus - Wikipedia

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    Horus is recorded in Egyptian hieroglyphs as 岣.w "Falcon", 饟厓; the original pronunciation has been reconstructed as /藞魔a藧删uw/ in Old Egyptian and early Middle Egyptian, /藞魔a藧删蓹蕯/ in later Middle Egyptian, and /藞魔o藧删(蓹)/ in Late Egyptian.

  3. Four sons of Horus - Wikipedia

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    A set of instructions for the embalming process, dating to the first or second century AD, calls for four officiants to take on the role of the sons of Horus as the deceased person's hand is wrapped. [38] The last references to the sons of Horus in burial goods date to the fourth century AD, near the end of the ancient Egyptian funerary tradition.

  4. Osiris myth - Wikipedia

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    Horus may receive the fertile lands around the Nile, the core of Egyptian civilization, in which case Set takes the barren desert or the foreign lands that are associated with it; Horus may rule the earth while Set dwells in the sky; and each god may take one of the two traditional halves of the country, Upper and Lower Egypt, in which case ...

  5. Ancient Egyptian creation myths - Wikipedia

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    The murder of Osiris by Set, and the resulting struggle for power, won by Horus, provided a powerful narrative linking the ancient Egyptian ideology of kingship with the creation of the cosmos. In all of these myths, the world was said to have emerged from an infinite, lifeless sea when the sun rose for the first time, in a distant period known ...

  6. The Contendings of Horus and Seth - Wikipedia

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    "The Contendings of Horus and Seth" is a mythological story from the Twentieth Dynasty of Egypt found in the first sixteen pages of the Chester Beatty Papyri and deals with the battles between Horus and Seth to determine who will succeed Osiris as king.

  7. Osiris - Wikipedia

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    Osiris is the mythological father of the god Horus, whose conception is described in the Osiris myth (a central myth in ancient Egyptian belief). The myth describes Osiris as having been killed by his brother Set, who wanted Osiris' throne.

  8. A guide to 'Moon Knight's' council of Egyptian gods - AOL

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    Hathor, Horus, Isis and other Egyptian gods turn up in 'Moon Knight' Episode 3. Here's a primer on their mythology and prior Marvel appearances.

  9. Set (deity) - Wikipedia

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    In the Osiris myth, the most important Egyptian myth, Set is portrayed as the usurper who murdered and mutilated his own brother, Osiris. Osiris's sister-wife, Isis , reassembled his corpse and resurrected her dead brother-husband with the help of the goddess Nephthys .

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