Horus Quotes From Texts

(Texts: All Artifacts, Color Coding, & Writings in Bold Type With Italics Inside Parenthesis, are Added by Editor R. Brown, not the Authors, Translators, or Publishers!)

(gods in blue)

 

         Horus belong righteousness and truth; deceit and falsehood are not in him.

         Who so gazes into the blue eyes of Horus can see the future reflected there,

         and both Gods and men seek Horus to learn what shall come to pass. …”

 

         “Then Set aimed a blow of fire at the eye of Horus,

and Horus shouted aloud with the pain of the fire, and raged furiously, and cried,

         “It is Set, and he has smitten me with fire on the eyes. …”

 

         Set, the enemy of Horus, and the murderer of Osiris (Ashur, Marduk‘s deceased son),

         took its form in order to injure the blue-eyed God. …”

 

         “when the eyes of Horus were healed, Ra gave to him the city of Pé,

and he gave to him two divine brethren in the city of Pé, and two divine brethren

         in the city of Nekhen to be with him as everlasting judges. …”

 

         “he would himself fight against Horus and destroy him as he had destroyed Osiris (Ashur).

 

         “Out of the dust and the noise of the combat came Horus, dragging a prisoner;

and the captive’s arms were bound behind him,

and the staff of Horus was tied across his mouth so that he could make no sound,

and the weapon of Horus was at his throat.

Horus dragged him before the Majesty of Ra.

And Ra spoke and said to Horus, “Do with him as thou wilt.”

Then Horus fell upon his enemy, and struck the weapon into his head

and into his back, and cut off his head, and dragged the body about by the feet,

and at last he cut the body into pieces.

         Thus did he treat the body of his adversary as Set had treated the body of Osiris. …

         it was the Ally of Set whom Horus had slain, and Set himself was  still alive, …”

   

         “May the valor of Ra, the strength of Shu, power and fear be around thee.

Thou art victorious, O son of Osiris, son of Isis, for thou fightest for the throne of thy father. …”

 

          “Over his head he brandished the weapon as though it were a reed,

and he launched it at the great red hippopotamus which stood in the deep waters,

ready to destroy Horus and his Followers when the storm should wreck their boats.

And at the first cast the weapon struck deep

into the head of the great red hippopotamus and entered the brain.

          Thus died Set, that great and wicked One, the enemy of Osiris and the Gods. …”