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In one tale, Horus is born to the goddess [[Isis]] after she retrieved all the dismembered body parts of her murdered husband Osiris, except his penis, which was thrown into the Nile and eaten by a catfish, or sometimes depicted as instead by a crab, and according to Plutarch's account used her magic powers to resurrect Osiris and fashion a phallus to conceive her son (older Egyptian accounts have the penis of Osiris surviving). | In one tale, Horus is born to the goddess [[Isis]] after she retrieved all the dismembered body parts of her murdered husband Osiris, except his penis, which was thrown into the Nile and eaten by a catfish, or sometimes depicted as instead by a crab, and according to Plutarch's account used her magic powers to resurrect Osiris and fashion a phallus to conceive her son (older Egyptian accounts have the penis of Osiris surviving). | ||
After becoming pregnant with Horus, Isis fled to the Nile Delta marshlands to hide from her brother [[Set]], who jealously killed Osiris and who she knew would want to kill their son. There Isis bore a divine son, Horus. As birth, death and rebirth are recurrent themes in [[Egyptian religion|Egyptian lore]] and cosmology, it is not particularly strange that Horus also is the brother of Osiris and Isis, by [[Nut]] and [[Geb]], together with [[ | After becoming pregnant with Horus, Isis fled to the Nile Delta marshlands to hide from her brother [[Set]], who jealously killed Osiris and who she knew would want to kill their son. There Isis bore a divine son, Horus. As birth, death and rebirth are recurrent themes in [[Egyptian religion|Egyptian lore]] and cosmology, it is not particularly strange that Horus also is the brother of Osiris and Isis, by [[Nut]] and [[Geb]], together with [[Nephthys]] and [[Set]]. This elder Horus is called ''Hrw-wr'' - as opposed to ''Hrw-P-Khrd'' - the younger Horus, at some point adopted by the Greeks as Harpocrates. | ||
==Forms of Horus== | ==Forms of Horus== | ||