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Horus
[ hawr-uhs, hohr- ]
noun
- a solar deity, regarded as either the son or the brother of Isis and Osiris, and usually represented as a falcon or as a man with the head of a falcon.
Horus
/ ˈhɔːrəs /
noun
- a solar god of Egyptian mythology, usually depicted with a falcon's head
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Origin of Horus1
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Word History and Origins
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Example Sentences
His good pal Kanye West often wears a rather glaring chain with Horus on it in his videos.
For herself, Gu chose the English name Horus L. Kai, after the ancient Egyptian god of war, sun, and sky, symbolized as a falcon.
Nut was the goddess of the firmament; Ma was the goddess of truth; Horus was the mediator between creation and destruction.
Our glimpses of the age that preceded him—the age of the followers of Horus, as the Egyptians termed it—are few and scanty.
The figure stands about nine inches high, and represents Isis, Horus, and the fish.
Go thou as Horus, son of Isis and Osiris, and triumph ever on thy way to the underworld.
In Upper Egypt a solar cult exalted Horus, the falcon god, as chief deity.
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