Horus Statue in Horus Temple

Horus: The God Of Sky

Horus is one of the most significant ancient Egyptian deities, He was worshiped from at least the late prehistoric Egypt until the Ptolemaic Kingdom and Roman Egypt. Horus was said to be the sky, he was considered to also contain the sun and moon. It was said that the sun was his right eye and the moon his left, and that they traversed the sky when he, a falcon, flew across it.

Some Pyramid Texts describe the nature of the pharaoh in different characters as both Horus and Osiris. The pharaoh as Horus in life became the pharaoh as Osiris in death, where he was united with the other gods. New incarnations of Horus succeeded the deceased pharaoh on earth in the form of new pharaohs.

The Temple of Edfu dedicated to the falcon god Horus, was built in the Ptolemaic period between 237 and 57 BC. The inscriptions on its walls provide important information on language, myth and religion during the Greco-Roman period in ancient Egypt. The Temple was the center of several festivals sacred to Horus. 

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Horus Statues

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