The gate of the year

Relief from a wall of the Isis Temple in the Island of Philae, representing the god Horus with his falcon’s head (III century B.C.). Horus was the most important and best known deity, since the beginning of the historic era. Son of Isis and Osiris, he was subsequently identified with the king of Egypt. The god was represented generally with a falcon’s head, he was imagined as a great sky god, whose spreading wings covered the vault of the heavens: one of his eyes was the sun, and the other the moon (Lesko 2005f).

[Image: http://www.freepik.com/free-photo/horus-at-philae-temple_649890.htm]




Human-Animal Transformation

Back

Relief from a wall of the Isis Temple in the Island of Philae, representing the god Horus with his falcon’s head (III century B.C.). Horus was the most important and best known deity, since the beginning of the historic era. Son of Isis and Osiris, he was subsequently identified with the king of Egypt. The god was represented generally with a falcon’s head, he was imagined as a great sky god, whose spreading wings covered the vault of the heavens: one of his eyes was the sun, and the other the moon (Lesko 2005f). [Image: http://www.freepik.com/free-photo/horus-at-philae-temple_649890.htm]