The falcon-headed Sky God

Horus is the god of the sky, and the son of Osiris, the creator (whoseown birth was thought due to the Ogdoad). Horus became depicted as afalcon, or as a falcon-headed man, leading to Horus' name, (inEgyptian, Heru), which meant The distant one. Horus was also sometimesknown as Nekheny (meaning falcon), although it has been proposed thatNekheny may have been another falcon-god, worshipped at Nekhen (city ofthe hawk), that became identified as... Continuar leyendo