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# Horus

🏷 Egyptian divine name hidden ruler pun · name — by Gerry · Nov 2020 · 762 words

The Egyptian god Horus is visibly named after ḥr for “face”, because the Horus falcon has a white face. However, the same word also means “foreman” & “leader”, and puns with pretty much all other attributes of Horus.

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Horus is written ḥr / ḥrw and depicted as a falcon-headed man or a white-faced falcon. As usual with gods and mythical creatures in general, all his attributes are puns with his name. This means he too was created from puns.

- Horus is depicted as a white-faced falcon, because ḥr means “face”. The same word was probably a name for this specific falcon. The same word is also translated as “mask”, derived from “[false] face”. 🡻
- Horus may also be depicted as a white-veiled falcon, perhaps because ḫrd means “veil”. 🡻 (The D seems off, but there’s a variant without it, and we’ll find another D pun below, with Horus being a ẖrd “child”.)
- Horus may be depicted as the (existing) white-faced falcon, because bȝq “white” & “bright” puns with bjk “falcon”. (Both words also pun with “spying” & “servant”, see below.) 🡻
- Horus becomes the ruler of Egypt, because ḥr for “face” also means “foreman” & “master”. 🡻
- Horus is the god of the sky, because ḥrw / ḥrt for “face” also means “sky” (via face & head as “upper part”). 🡻
- Horus is depicted as a child, because ẖrd means “child” & “boy”. 🡻
- Horus is depicted as a child, perhaps also because bjk “falcon” puns with bkȝ “pregnancy”. 🡻
- Horus is depicted as a child, perhaps also because ḥry means “child”. The pun works better here, but the word is rarely attested. 🡻
- Horus represents Lower Egypt specifically, because ẖr means “lower”. 🡻
- Horus was made the enemy of Seth, because ḫrw means “enemy” (while Seth puns with sṯȝw for “attacker”). 🡻
- Horus rips off Seth’s testicles, because ẖrwy means “testicles” (from ẖr for “lower”). 🡻
- Horus loses and searches for his eye, because ḥḥ-jr means “missing & searching an eye”. Since consonant duplication, vowels & suffixes were ignored by the ancient punners, ḥḥ-jr “missing eye” puns with ḥrw “Horus”. 🡻
- Horus & Seth are spook symbols, because ḥr-stḫ means “hidden ruler”.
- Horus & Isis are spook symbols, perhaps because ẖry-st means “instead of”, hinting at false representation & fakery. (Like other such expressions, it’s derived from “down” by putting a thing “down” in place of the other.) 🡻
- Horus is a spook symbol, perhaps because ẖrt means “deceit”. 🡻
- Horus is a spook symbol, perhaps because n-ḥr meaning “of face” is also an expression for disguising.
- Horus is a spook symbol, perhaps because bjk-ḥr “face-falcon” and bȝq-ḥr “white face” both pun with bȝk-ḥr “masked servant” and bȝq-ḥr “masked spy”. A combined bjk-bȝq-ḥr “white-faced falcon” would pun with bȝk-bȝq-ḥr “masked spying servant”. 🡻

#### Egyptian ḥr, ḥrw = Horus

𓅃𓀭 ḥr : Horus — Egyptian (AED)

𓅃 ḥrw : Horus (god’s name) — Egyptian (TLA)

#### Egyptian ḥr = face, mask, upper part, sky, chief, master

𓁷𓏤 ḥr : face, sight — Egyptian (AED)

𓁷𓏤 ḥr : mask — Egyptian (Hannig)

𓁷𓏤 ḥr : face, sight, front, facade, mask, surface (of building), attention, head, mind — Egyptian (Vygus)

𓁷𓂋𓅱𓇯 ḥrw : upper part, top — Egyptian (AED)

𓁷𓂋𓏏𓇯 ḥrt : sky, heaven — Egyptian (AED)

𓁷𓂋 ḥry : master — Egyptian (AED)

𓁷𓂋𓇯𓀀 ḥry : head man — Egyptian (AED)

𓁷𓂋𓏭𓇯𓀀 ḥrj : superior, supervisor, chieftain — Egyptian (TLA)

𓌨𓂋𓁷𓏤 ẖr ḥr : under the control of, under the supervision of — Egyptian (AED)

#### Egyptian ẖr = lower; ẖrwy = testicles; ẖrt = deceit; ẖry-st = instead

𓌨 ẖr : under, because of — Egyptian (TLA)

𓌨𓂋𓅱𓈇𓏤 ẖrw : base, lower part, underside — Egyptian (AED)

𓌨𓂋𓅱𓏭D283 ẖrwy : testicles — Egyptian (AED)

𓌨𓂋𓏏𓂝𓅪𓏥 ẖrt : deceit — Egyptian (AED)

𓌨𓂋𓏭𓏛𓊨𓏏𓉐𓈖 ẖry-st-n : instead of — Egyptian (Vygus)

#### Egyptian ḫrd, ḫrr = veil, cloth

𓐍𓏭𓏭𓂋𓏤𓂧𓏭𓍱 ḫrd : bundle (of linen); veils; thin cloth — Egyptian (TLA)

𓐍𓂋𓏭𓂋𓏤𓂧𓏭𓍱 ḫrd : veil, thin cloth — Egyptian (Vygus)

𓐍𓏭𓂋𓏤𓂋𓏤𓍱 ḫrr : bundle, bale (of cloth) — Egyptian (Vygus)

#### Egyptian ẖrd = child; ḥry = child

𓄡𓂋𓂧𓀔𓀀 ẖrd : child — Egyptian (AED)

𓁷𓂋𓂝𓏯𓀁 ḥry : a boy, youngster, child (in arms) — Egyptian (Vygus)

#### Egyptian ḫrw = enemy, war

𓐍𓂋𓅱𓀒 ḫrw : enemy — Egyptian (TLA)

𓊤𓇋𓇋𓀜𓀏 ḫrwy : enemy — Egyptian (AED)

𓊤𓅱𓇋𓇋𓅱𓂡𓏥 ḫrwyw : war — Egyptian (AED)

#### Egyptian ḥḥ = missing, seek, search; jr = eye

𓎛𓎛 ḥḥ : to seek, to search for — Egyptian (Vygus)

𓎛𓎛𓏭𓂻 ḥḥy : seek, search for, be missing — Egyptian (AED)

𓁹𓏏𓏤 jr.t : eye — Egyptian (TLA)

𓁹𓁹𓅱𓏭 jr.wj : pair of eyes — Egyptian (TLA)

#### Egyptian bjk = falcon; bȝk = servant; bȝq = white, spy; bkȝ = pregnant

𓃀𓇋𓎡𓅃 bjk : falcon, kite — Egyptian (TLA)

𓅡𓎡𓀀 bȝk : servant, underling — Egyptian (TLA)

𓃀𓅡𓄿𓈎𓆭 bȝq : oily, bright, white, be dazzled (of sight) — Egyptian (Vygus)

𓃀𓈎𓁻 bȝq : espy, to catch sight of, to behold — Egyptian (Vygus)

𓃀𓂓𓁑 bkȝ : to be (become) pregnant; to make pregnant — Egyptian (TLA)

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