Editing Horus (section)

== Origin mythology ==
In one tale, Horus is born to the goddess Isis after she retrieved all the dismembered body parts of her murdered husband Osiris, except his [[Human penis#Object of worship|penis]], which was thrown into the Nile and eaten by a [[catfish]]/[[Medjed (fish)|Medjed]],<ref>{{Cite news|title=New York folklore quarterly|author=New York Folklore Society|publisher=[[Cornell University Press]]|year=1973|volume=29|page=294|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=92LYAAAAMAAJ&q=penis|access-date=2020-11-12|archive-date=2023-04-03|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230403005327/https://books.google.com/books?id=92LYAAAAMAAJ&q=penis|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|title=The Oxford History of Ancient Egypt|author=Ian Shaw|author-link=Ian Shaw (Egyptologist)|publisher=Oxford University Press|year=2003|isbn=978-0-19-815034-3|url-access=registration|url=https://archive.org/details/oxfordhisto00shaw}}</ref> or sometimes depicted as instead by a [[crab]], and according to [[Plutarch]]'s account used her magic powers to [[Resurrection|resurrect]] Osiris and fashion a [[phallus]]<ref>{{cite book|title=Eunuchs and castrati: a cultural history|author=Piotr O. Scholz|publisher=Markus Wiener Publishers|year=2001|page=32|isbn=978-1-55876-201-5|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=N90jBg01ZI0C&q=horus+isis+osiris+penis&pg=PA32|access-date=2020-11-12|archive-date=2023-04-03|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230403015330/https://books.google.com/books?id=N90jBg01ZI0C&q=horus+isis+osiris+penis&pg=PA32|url-status=live}}</ref> to conceive her son (older Egyptian accounts have the penis of Osiris surviving).

After becoming pregnant with Horus, Isis fled to the [[Nile Delta]] [[marsh]]lands to hide from her brother [[Set (deity)|Set]], who jealously killed Osiris and who she knew would want to kill their son.<ref name="World mythology">{{cite book|title=World Mythology|author=Roy G. Willis|publisher=Macmillan|year=1993|page=43|isbn=978-0-8050-2701-3|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ojccFpRU8DwC&q=horus&pg=PA44|access-date=2020-11-12|archive-date=2023-04-03|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230403005325/https://books.google.com/books?id=ojccFpRU8DwC&q=horus&pg=PA44|url-status=live}}</ref> There Isis bore a divine son, Horus. As birth, death and rebirth are recurrent themes in Egyptian lore and cosmology, it is not particularly strange that Horus also is the brother of [[Osiris]] and [[Isis]], by [[Nut (goddess)|Nut]] and [[Geb]], together with [[Nephthys]] and [[Set (deity)|Set]].{{tone inline|date=July 2022}} This elder Horus is called Hrw-wr - Hourou'Ur - as opposed to Hrw-P-Khrd - the child Horus, at some point adopted by the Greeks as [[Harpocrates]].{{citation needed|date=July 2022}}
[[File:Jewel_Osiris_family-E_6204-IMG_0641-gradient.jpg|alt=Gold statuette of three human figures. On the right is a woman with a horned headdress, in the center is a squatting man with a tall crown on a pedestal, and on the left is a man with the head of a falcon.|thumb|300x300px|Osiris is depicted on a [[lapis lazuli]] pillar in the center, flanked by Horus on the left and [[Isis]] on the right in this [[Twenty-second Dynasty of Egypt|Twenty-second Dynasty]] statuette]]

=== Genealogy ===
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