The Egyptians honored Horus, here spearing a hippopotamus, as the son of the deities Isis and Osiris.

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The name Horus is the Latinized form. In Egyptian, it was Hor, which translates as "face." Horus was first a sky god and then came to be identified with the sun. The Egyptians honored him as the son of the deities Isis and Osiris, and he was thought to serve Osiris, the god of the dead, as a war captain. In this 1915 illustration that shows a relief found in a temple at Edfu, Horus is seen spearing a hippopotamus, around which he has wound a double chain of metal. A falcon flies above Horus.

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