Get to know Horus better with 10+ real example sentences, the meaning.
Horus meaning
The ancient Egyptian falcon-headed god of the sun, sky, war, and kingship.
Synonyms of Horus
Using Horus
- The main meaning on this page is: The ancient Egyptian falcon-headed god of the sun, sky, war, and kingship.
- Useful related words include: egyptian deity.
- In the example corpus, horus often appears in combinations such as: horus and, of horus, to horus.
Context around Horus
- Average sentence length in these examples: 30 words
- Position in the sentence: 14 start, 6 middle, 0 end
- Sentence types: 20 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Horus
- In this selection, "horus" usually appears near the start of the sentence. The average example has 30 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, golden, osiris, though, name, names and isn stand out and add context to how "horus" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include and osiris horus as an and and restoration horus s childhood. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "horus" sits close to words such as adversarial, aphasia and archibald, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with horus
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Horus name The Horus name was adopted by the king, when taking the throne. (14 words)
Khasekhemwy refers to "Horus: the two powers are at peace", while Nebra refers to "Horus, Lord of the Sun". (19 words)
Golden Horus The Golden Horus or Golden Falcon name was preceded by a falcon on a gold or nbw sign. (20 words)
Meltzer in Redford, pp. 165–166 Heru-pa-khered (Horus the Younger) Horus the Younger, Harpocrates to the Ptolemaic Greeks, is represented in the form of a youth wearing a lock of hair (a sign of youth) on the right of his head while sucking his finger. (47 words)
The Egyptologist Herman te Velde argues that the tradition about the lost testicles is a late variation on Set's loss of semen to Horus, and that the moon-like disk that emerges from Set's head after his impregnation is the Eye of Horus. (45 words)
Horus then won the race, and Set stepped down and officially gave Horus the throne of Egypt. Mythology, published by DBP, Chapter: Egypt's divine kingship But after the New Kingdom, Set still was considered Lord of the desert and its oases. (42 words)
Example sentences (20)
Aha refers to "Horus the fighter", Djer refers to "Horus the strong", etc. Later kings express ideals of kingship in their Horus names.
As Horus was the ultimate victor he became known as Harsiesis, Heru-ur or Har-Wer (ḥr.w wr 'Horus the Great'), but more usually translated as Horus the Elder.
Horus, who is the son of the God Isis, abhors what Seth has done and challenges him for his right to rule over Egypt, even though Horus isn't yet a God himself.
Penta set up Horus for his signature arm breaker, but Horus got out of it and hit a modified Code Red for a two count.
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.
As such, since Horus was born after Osiris' resurrection, Horus became thought of as a representation of new beginnings and the vanquisher of the evil Set.
For instance, since both Horus and Set were worshipped in Upper Egypt prior to unification, perhaps the myth reflects a struggle within Upper Egypt prior to unification, in which a Horus-worshipping group subjugated a Set-worshipping group.
Golden Horus The Golden Horus or Golden Falcon name was preceded by a falcon on a gold or nbw sign.
Horus name The Horus name was adopted by the king, when taking the throne.
Horus then won the race, and Set stepped down and officially gave Horus the throne of Egypt. Mythology, published by DBP, Chapter: Egypt's divine kingship But after the New Kingdom, Set still was considered Lord of the desert and its oases.
In Egyptian mythology, Horus the Younger was the enemy of Set, whereas Horus the Elder, also known as "Harwer" was actually closely associated with Set and was also cast as "the champion of Set in the Osirian mythos".
In temple offering rituals, the officiating priest took on the role of Horus, the gifts to the deity became the Eye of Horus, and whichever deity received these gifts was momentarily equated with Osiris.
In this thicket, Isis gives birth to Horus and raises him, and hence it is also called the "nest of Horus".
Khasekhemwy refers to "Horus: the two powers are at peace", while Nebra refers to "Horus, Lord of the Sun".
Later Egyptians interpreted the myth of the conflict between Set and Osiris/Horus as an analogy for the struggle between the desert (represented by Set) and the fertilizing floods of the Nile (Osiris/Horus).
Meltzer in Redford, pp. 165–166 Heru-pa-khered (Horus the Younger) Horus the Younger, Harpocrates to the Ptolemaic Greeks, is represented in the form of a youth wearing a lock of hair (a sign of youth) on the right of his head while sucking his finger.
Ra-Horus, more usually referred to as Ra-Horakhty (Ra, who is Horus of the two horizons), is a synthesis of two other gods, both of which are attested from very early on.
Since Isis was paired with Horus, and Horus was identified with Ra, Isis began to be merged with Hathor as Isis-Hathor.
The distinct segments of the story—Osiris's death and restoration, Horus's childhood, and Horus's conflict with Set—may originally have been independent mythic episodes.
The Egyptologist Herman te Velde argues that the tradition about the lost testicles is a late variation on Set's loss of semen to Horus, and that the moon-like disk that emerges from Set's head after his impregnation is the Eye of Horus.
Common combinations with horus
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- horus and 17×
- of horus 17×
- to horus 15×
- horus the 13×
- horus was 9×
- the horus 7×
- and horus 6×
- as horus 3×
- but horus 3×
- horus name 3×