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Bookmark or Share- Hathor – MythopediaHathor assisted Horus on other occasions as well. Following a particularly brutal battle with Set, Horus found himself utterly defenseless. Seizing his opportunity, merciless Set beat the broken Horus before plucking out his eyes and burying them in ground. This amulet (743–712 BCE) shows the head of Hathor with the eye of Horus above.
- Isis – MythopediaHorus denied these claims, telling the court that everything that Set said was a lie. Thoth, in an act of what is possibly the strangest use of magic in all of mythological history, commanded Set’s semen to make itself known. As Horus’ hands had been thrown into the Nile, Set’s seed dutifully emerged from the marshes.
- Anubis - MythopediaAnubis was the jackal-headed Egyptian god of mummification. Originally the powerful son of Ra and god of the dead, as other deities rose in prominence he became the escort of the newly deceased into the afterlife.
- Ra - MythopediaHorus was a complicated god, and had no fewer than 15 forms associated with him. Of these forms, the most consistent (and popular) was the falcon. Ra-Horakhty blended the imagery of Ra and Horus, taking the form of a falcon crowned by a solar disk or, alternatively, a winged solar disk. Amun-Ra
- Osiris - MythopediaOsiris was the first child of the sky goddess Nut and the earth god Geb. His siblings included Horus the Elder, Set, Isis, Nephthys. Osiris had several notable children. He famously fathered Horus the Younger with his sister/wife Isis following his resurrection, and unwittingly sired Anubis with Nephthys.
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