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Horus, the sun god of the ancient Egyptians

Horus (Greek: Ὧρος) is the sun god of the ancient Egyptians.
Contents

     1 Temple of Horus
     2 Horus as the king's name
     3 in the calculation
     4 sons of Horus

Temple of Horus
Statue of Horus in the Temple of Edfu.

The construction of this huge temple of Horus began during the reign of Ptolemy III Euergetes I in 145 BC, and it took about 200 years to build this temple. It was completed during the reign of Ptolemy XIII in the first century BC.

Horus was mentioned in a legend in ancient Egypt and was considered a symbol of goodness and justice. Osiris was his father who was the god of the Baath and arithmetic of the ancient Egyptians. According to religious myth, his evil uncle Setit killed his father and distributed his parts throughout the country. His mother, Isis, collected the parts of his father's body, the first operation to mummify the dead and cohabited with his father's body. Horus was then born and wanted to avenge his uncle and take revenge for his father, so Horus is sometimes called the "protector of his father." In that battle, Horus lost his left eye. And take the throne of Egypt.

Osiris became the god of arithmetic in the underworld, and Horus became king of worldly life. Each of the kings of Egypt was ruled by the representative of Horus, and the help of the god Horus in the work and wars. Therefore, all the kings of Egypt are named in one of their names (the king usually had 5 titles) in the name of Horus.

Of the ancient Egyptian spells, we find many of them in the form of the eye of Horus called "Wajat" and attached to the chest. The eye of Horus was also taken to represent fractions such as: 1/2, 1/4, 1/8, 1/16 and 1/32 to 1/64.

His mother, Isis, was the goddess of the moon for the ancient Egyptians.
Horus as the king's name
The name of King Waji (the serpent) with Horus (in the form of a falcon) standing on the commode of the palace. (First Dynasty about 4000 BC).

The work of Horus for all the kings of Egypt was the ideal in that he avenged his father from his murderer and was just. Therefore, they took the name "Horus of the neighborhood", one of the oldest royal titles in ancient Egypt. His name was mentioned in ancient times combined with Hathor and the first Scorpion king. Horus appears in this title standing on the palace edifice, surrounded by the king's name.

Horus is also found on the famous Narmer or King Mina, the first dynasty in Egypt, holding the heads of Egypt's defeated enemies and bringing them to the king. Until the Fourth Dynasty, the title of Pharaoh consisted only of the name Horus, and during that dynasty also appeared the golden name of Horus, as the second title of the king.
In the account
Parts of the Eye of Horus and the value of each.
Eye of Horus.

The ancient Egyptians used fractions in the calculation in the form of 1 / h, especially for fragmentation and distribution of yields, such as: 1/2 and 1/4 and others and used the eye of Horus to represent them.

Each part of the eye of Horus represented a certain fraction (see Figure) and they were parts of the standard size have so-called "Haqqat" ie representing 1/2 Haqqat or 1/4 Haqqat .... or 1/32 Haqqat and so on. If we add these fractions, we get the total 63/64, which is less than one by 1/64. When a student asked his teacher in ancient Egypt, where did the missing 1/64 go? The teacher replied that Tut, the god of arithmetic, had hidden it. This was one of the beliefs of the ancient Egyptians.
Sons of Horus

The ancient Egyptians consider Horus to have four sons: Habi, Amasti, Domotiv (meaning "protector of his mother") and "Khabsinov" ("drink for his brother"). In the Book of the Dead there is usually a picture of Osiris sitting on a throne in the afterlife and behind him his two sisters, Isis and Nephthys, and in front of him stands [the four sons of Horus standing on the lotus flower to hold man accountable. On the other hand was the processing of the dead and embalming them open their body and take the heart (heart does not extract it because the ancient Egyptian goes to the other world and immortalized in living in the fields of Ozer) and viscera and placed in four vials (canopic pots) constitute the four sons of Horus to maintain their safety, and those vials The four are attached to the mummy, which is mummified and filled with substances that prevent their decomposition.

The ancient Egyptian conceived that Horus would present the dead to Osiris if he succeeded in testing the balance and take a beautiful dress and enter "Paradise." The balance is tested as follows: It comes in the heart of the dead and placed in one of the scales and placed in the other cuff "feather" (Maat), a symbol of "justice and good morals", if the feather heavier than the heart, it means that the dead was good in his life and to create a cream Beautiful clothing and enters the garden "paradise" to live in them happy happy. But if the heart of the dead weight of the feather, it means that he was in his life mighty disobedient. Then the heart and the dead are thrown to a fabulous animal standing next to the balance - Ammut: his head is a crocodile head, his body is lion and his hippopotamus - this animal is immediately devoured by him and that is his eternal end.

Ancient Egyptian mythology is that Horus was sending his four sons when the Egyptian Pharaoh was crowned on four sides of the earth to preach the influence of the new king.