3/26/2021 0:00:01
Horus in ancient Misr was the Allah of goodness and justice.
His father was Osiris, who was the Allah of resurrection and reckoning among the ancient Egyptians. According to religious legend, his evil uncle Set killed his father and distributed his parts throughout the Egyptian country. His mother was Isis, so she collected parts of his father’s body, and this is considered the first process of mummifying the dead, and she interacted with his father’s body. Horus was born after that and wanted to take revenge on his uncle and avenge his father. Therefore, Horus is sometimes called “his father’s protector.” In that battle, Horus lost his left eye. He assumed the throne of Misr.
Osiris became the Allah of reckoning in the afterlife, and Horus became the king of this world. Every king of Misr was governed by a representative of Horus, and he sought the help of the Allah Horus in his actions and wars. Therefore, we find that all the kings of Misr have the name Horus in one of their names (and the king usually had 5 titles).
His mother, Isis, was the goddess of the moon among the ancient Egyptians.
The ancient Egyptians believed that Horus had four sons: “Hapi,” “Amseti,” “Domotif” (which means “protector of his mother”), and “Kabhasnov” (which means “giver of drink to his brother”). In the Book of the Dead, there is usually a picture of Osiris sitting on a throne in the afterlife, with his sisters Isis and Nephthys behind him, and in front of him stand the four sons of Horus standing on the lotus flower to hold man accountable. On the other hand, the preparation and embalming of the dead was done by opening their bodies and taking the heart (we do not extract the heart because with it the ancient Egyptian goes to the other world and lives forever in the fields of Osiris) and the entrails and placing them in four flasks (canopic vessels) that constitute the four sons of Horus to preserve their safety. These flasks were The four are placed adjacent to the mummy, which is mummified and filled with materials that prevent its decomposition.
The ancient Egyptian perception was that Horus would present the deceased to Osiris if he succeeded in the test of the scales, so that he would receive beautiful clothes and enter “paradise.” The scales are tested as follows: The dead person’s heart is brought and placed on one side of the scale, and a “feather” (Ma’at) is placed on the other side, which is a symbol of “justice and good morals.” If the feather is heavier than the heart, this means that the dead person was good in his life and of noble character, so he is taken. He wears beautiful clothes and enters the garden of “paradise” to live there contented and happy. If the dead person’s heart is heavier than the weight of a feather, it means that he was a Taghut (Dometic) and disobedient person during his life. Then the heart and the dead person are thrown to a mythical animal that is standing next to the scales – Amammut: His head is the head of a crocodile, the front of his body is a lion, and the back of his body is a hippopotamus – and this animal immediately devours him, and that will be his eternal end.
It is also one of the ancient Egyptian myths that Horus used to send his four sons upon the coronation of the Pharaoh of Misr to four corners of the earth to herald the influence of the new king.