Horus (𓅃) — Sky, Kingship, the Rightful Heir

Heru (Horus) is the falcon-headed neter of the sky, whose right eye is the sun and left eye is the moon — the restored Wadjet eye becoming one of Egypt's most potent symbols of wholeness and healing. The Contendings of Horus and Set recount his eighty-year struggle to claim the throne of his father Osiris, a conflict resolved by the tribunal of the Ennead at Heliopolis. Every living pharaoh was identified as 'the living Horus,' bearing the Horus name as the first of the royal titulary, making kingship itself a manifestation of this neter's sovereignty. The Pyramid Texts describe him as 'Horus who is in Osiris' — the son who redeems the father, the rightful heir whose claim restores ma'at to the Two Lands.

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