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In an exceptional portrayal, in the wall decoration in WV23, the tomb of Ay from the late Eighteenth Dynasty, the four sons are portrayed as fully human, with Imsety and Hapy wearing the red crown of Lower Egypt. | In an exceptional portrayal, in the wall decoration in WV23, the tomb of Ay from the late Eighteenth Dynasty, the four sons are portrayed as fully human, with Imsety and Hapy wearing the red crown of Lower Egypt. | ||
===Protector of Sah=== | |||
Some funerary texts state that the four sons of Horus were responsible for preventing [[Set]], in his form as the foreleg of an ox, from reaching the decanal star [[Sah]]. Sah was often equated to [[Osiris]], who Set was responsible for murdering. | |||
One theory suggests the four sons of Horus are actually four stars in the constellation Ursa Major, which was known to the ancient Egyptians as ''msxtyw'', the Foreleg of Set. This asterism contained a total of seven stars, and these four would have been located in the "meaty" part of the thigh. In an astronomical context, these four stars formed a border between the southern sky and the northern sky, thereby drawing a barrier between Set and Sah (the constellation Orion). | |||
In this context, Hapy is theorized to be the star Merak (Beta Ursae Majoris). | |||
[[Category:Egyptian gods]] | [[Category:Egyptian gods]] | ||
[[Category:Sons of Horus]] | |||