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horus

Definition, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for horus.

Editorial note

Using hate instead of love, and then sometimes having to retract web pages when proven wrong like the Jesus is Horus thing or the Easter is Ishtar thing.

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Quick take

(Egyptian mythology) The ancient Egyptian falcon-headed god of the sun, sky, war, and kingship.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of horus gathered in one view.

noun

(Egyptian mythology) The ancient Egyptian falcon-headed god of the sun, sky, war, and kingship.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for horus.

noun

(Egyptian mythology) The ancient Egyptian falcon-headed god of the sun, sky, war, and kingship.

Example sentences

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Using hate instead of love, and then sometimes having to retract web pages when proven wrong like the Jesus is Horus thing or the Easter is Ishtar thing.

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If the job should take 3 hours and you wait 2 hours for a part, you get paid 3 horus.

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A serpent guard, a Horus guard and a Setesh guard meet on a neutral planet.

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For example the film 'Zeitgeist' makes wild assertions about Jesus & Horus sharing key details which have been debunked many times over.

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As for the person who died, I'm certain I remember Alan Bligh, who was the chief writer behind Horus Heresy.

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The Horus Heresy book series is like 64 books now.

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I used to go to the university during the day, then to sleep 6 horus then and work from 23pm to 7am every day.

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It's a shame, warhammer40k has an interesting plot (including horus heresy) but this kind of corporate bullying plus the ridicule pricing are making fans to leave the lore.

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I've spent the last 3 years just within the circle of the Horus Heresy, I don't know anything about the Tau nor the Orks...

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Set or Horus worshippers these days, for example.

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Thompson of Saint Luke’s Mid America Heart Institute and an international team of investigators entitled Atherosclerosis across 4000 years of human history: the Horus study of four ancient populations.

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Designed for fast, secure onboarding, Horus Check combines advanced document scanning, facial recognition, and AML screening to detect fraud and ensure regulatory compliance across industries.

Quote examples

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They take the most significant Egyptian gods and describe them as mere objects (even the sun and moon aren't named -- they're just "lights".) They take the most significant elements of the Egyptian stories and turn them around, twist them up on themselves, and use them to express how Yahweh is different from Horus, Isis, and the rest.

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As for the latter, there's a statue of "Ramesses II (Dyn XIX) as a Child"[1] which shows Horus as a falcon with the sun ( rꜥ ) on his breast, a child ( ms ) beneath it, in his hand a sedge plant ( sw ).

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Note that you'll have to choose to omit ḥr "Horus" although the falcon dominates the sculpture, and that the sedge does not represent a plant but, by virtue of sounding like it, the 3rd person suffix sw "he", so there's some guesswork involved.

Proper noun examples

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Don't get me started on how this all connects to the Eye of Providence[19] or the Eye of Horus[20]!

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If he did influence Christianity it would be to the same degree as Osiris, Horus, Inanna or other similar deities.

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This is so common that there is a popular YouTube video that satirizes the concept called 'Horus Ruins Christmas' by LutheranSatire.

Frequently asked questions

Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.

How do you use horus in a sentence?

Using hate instead of love, and then sometimes having to retract web pages when proven wrong like the Jesus is Horus thing or the Easter is Ishtar thing.

What does horus mean?

(Egyptian mythology) The ancient Egyptian falcon-headed god of the sun, sky, war, and kingship.

What part of speech is horus?

horus is commonly used as noun.