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HORUS

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HORUSHigh Orbit Ultraviolet Visible Satellite (NASA)


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These are all powerful statements to make in the ancient world where the assumption of the great cultures is that the king (or pharaoh) is either divine, as in Egypt where pharaoh was Horus and the son of Osiris, or a representative of the gods who could be adopted as divine, as in Mesopotamia.
Dan Abnett's Horus Rising: The Seeds Of Heresy Are Sown (184416294X, $7.
Possibly the earliest chat-up line in recorded human history is between two men and is found in the tale of Horus and Seth that is preserved on a Middle Kingdom papyrus ("What a lovely backside you have"), and another surviving tale tells of a secret affair between King Neferkare and his unmarried general Sasenet (translations of both are available in Voices From Ancient Egypt, British Museum Press, 1991).
 
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