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'''Hor-pa-kraat (Horus the Child, GD: Hoor-par-kraat)'''<br> | '''Hor-pa-kraat (Horus the Child, GD: Hoor-par-kraat)'''<br> | ||
[[Horus]], the son of [[Isis]] and [[Osiris]], distinguished from Horus the Elder, who was the old patron deity of Upper Egypt; but the worship of the two gods became confused early in Egyptian history and the two essentially merged. Represented as a young boy with a child's sidelock of hair, sucking his finger. The Golden Dawn attributed Silence to him, presumably because the sucking of the finger is suggestive of the common "shhh" gesture.<br> | [[Horus]], the son of [[Isis]] and [[Osiris]], distinguished from [[Horus the Elder]], who was the old patron deity of Upper Egypt; but the worship of the two gods became confused early in Egyptian history and the two essentially merged. Represented as a young boy with a child's sidelock of hair, sucking his finger. The Golden Dawn attributed Silence to him, presumably because the sucking of the finger is suggestive of the common "shhh" gesture.<br> | ||
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Reference: http://www.amberwood.org/egypt.htm | Reference: http://www.amberwood.org/egypt.htm | ||
Latest revision as of 02:48, 1 November 2004
Hor-pa-kraat (Horus the Child, GD: Hoor-par-kraat)
Horus, the son of Isis and Osiris, distinguished from Horus the Elder, who was the old patron deity of Upper Egypt; but the worship of the two gods became confused early in Egyptian history and the two essentially merged. Represented as a young boy with a child's sidelock of hair, sucking his finger. The Golden Dawn attributed Silence to him, presumably because the sucking of the finger is suggestive of the common "shhh" gesture.
Reference: http://www.amberwood.org/egypt.htm