Horus
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.
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.
- 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 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 an eye, perhaps because ỉr means “eye” (though ỉr ≈ ḥr is not a very good pun).
- 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.
Egyptian ḥr = face, upper part, sky, chief, master
𓁷𓏤 ḥr : face, sight — Egyptian (AED)
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 ḥrỉ : 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 of
Egyptian ẖrd = child
𓄡𓂋𓂧𓀔𓀀 ẖrd : child — Egyptian (AED)