(8) EGYPTIAN MYTHOLOGY – HERO: HORUS

 

“Look out Set, here I come Set

To get Set, to sunset Set

To unseat Set, to set down Set”

 

One of two deities from Egyptian mythology I rank as heroes in my top ten, Horus is the more conventionally heroic figure.

“God of kingship, healing, protection, the sun, and the sky. He was worshipped from at least the late prehistoric Egypt until the Ptolemaic Kingdom and Roman Egypt. Different forms of Horus are recorded in history…these various forms may be different manifestations of the same multi-layered deity…He was most often depicted as a falcon, most likely a lanner falcon or peregrine falcon, or as a man with a falcon head.”

Vengeful god Horus!

The best-known form of Horus is the son of Isis and Osiris on a roaring rampage of revenge against Set for killing his father Osiris.

Horus! The pharaoh’s champion!

While “the pharaoh was associated with many specific deities”, perhaps the most pharaonic deity was Horus, “who represented kingship itself and was seen as a protector of the pharaoh”.

Cosmic Horus! His right eye is the sun and his left eye is the moon.

No, seriously – “since Horus was said to be the sky, he was considered to also contain the Sun and Moon”.

Speaking of eyes, even his eye was heroic – “The Eye of Horus is an ancient Egyptian symbol of protection and royal power from deities…In the Egyptian language, the word for this symbol was “wedjat”

 

SUPERMAN-BATMAN SCALE

Like Egyptian gods in general, Horus is definitely on the divine Superman end of the scale, even to the point that they have remarkably similar origins as infant children saved from disaster by their parents for divine greatness – except for Horus, it’s his mother Isis that’s the literal equivalent of Superman’s rocket launching him to safety from Krypton’s destruction. Isis fled with Horus from Set and raised him up for his roaring rampage of revenge.

 

PUNCHING OUT CTHULHU RANKING

I don’t know about Cthulhu but he certainly ranks high in the punching out Set ranking.

 

 

PARTY ROCK RANKING

A little too serious to rank high in my party rock ranking but what do you expect from the Egyptian pantheon’s equivalent of Inigo Montoya – “you killed my father, prepare to die!”.

Also – you do NOT want him bringing the salad with his special sauce to barbecues…

 

RATING

A-TIER (TOP TIER)