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Horus and Set challenged each other to a boat race, where they each raced in a boat made of stone. Horus and Set agreed, and the race started. But Horus had an edge: his boat was made of wood painted to resemble stone, rather than true stone. Set's boat, being made of heavy stone, sank, but Horus' did not.
The Horus name is the oldest known and used crest of ancient Egyptian rulers. ... In many cases the serekh lacks the Horus falcon, and in other cases, ...
The Horus name is the oldest form of the pharaoh's name, originating in prehistoric Egypt. Many of the oldest-known Egyptian pharaohs were known only by this title. [6] The Horus name was usually written in a serekh, a representation of a palace façade. The name of the pharaoh was written in hieroglyphs inside this
The Horus of the night deities – Twelve goddesses of each hour of the night, wearing a five-pointed star on their heads Neb-t tehen and Neb-t heru, god and goddess of the first hour of night, Apis or Hep (in reference) and Sarit-neb-s, god and goddess of the second hour of night, M'k-neb-set, goddess of the third hour of night, Aa-t-shefit or ...
Horus (athlete) (fl. 4th century), an Olympic boxer and Cynic philosopher from Late Roman Egypt; Horus (wrestler), the ring name of a Mexican professional wrestler; Horus Aha, a pharaoh; Horus Bird (pharaoh) Horus Sa, a pharaoh; Horus-son-of-the-wolf, legendary Egyptian magician; Horus Engels (1914–1991), German artist; Rey Horus, Mexican ...
Hathor, mother of Horus and Ra and goddess of the Sun; Horus, god of the sky whose right eye was considered to be the Sun and his left the Moon; Khepri, god of the rising Sun, creation and renewal of life; Ptah, god of craftsmanship, the arts, and fertility, sometimes said to represent the Sun at night; Ra, god of the Sun
The encounter puts Horus in danger, because in Egyptian tradition semen is a potent and dangerous substance, akin to poison. According to some texts, Set's semen enters Horus's body and makes him ill, but in "Contendings", Horus thwarts Set by catching Set's semen in his hands. Isis retaliates by putting Horus's semen on lettuce-leaves that Set ...
The serekh containing the king's name was used on a variety of objects and made a fundamental statement of royal ideology. [10] The king's name was written in hieroglyphs and the Horus falcon, in reference to the sky god Horus, usually surmounted it. [5] The Horus name is the first of five royal titles that were in use by the Fifth Dynasty.