Egyptian deity
Horus
The living king is Horus and the dead king is Osiris, which is the constitutional arrangement of Egyptian kingship stated as a family relationship. His contest with Set for the throne is one of the longest narratives Egypt left.
2 correspondences · 1 with an ancient or scriptural source · 0 without a cited source
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The oldest attribution here is Greek equivalent Apollo, first attested 430 BCE.
Greek equivalent
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Apollo
Traditional- Who says so
- The Greek and Roman reading of Egypt (V BCE – IV CE)
- Earliest verified attestation
- 430 BCE
- Ancient or scriptural source
- Attested
- Evidence
- The source states it
Herodotus's own equation, in his own sentence. It is evidence of what a fifth-century Greek was told and understood, which is not the same thing as evidence of Egyptian theology.
Evidence
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Herodotus of Halicarnassus, Histories, c. 430 BCE — Book II, 156
and in the Egyptian tongue Apollo is Oros, Demeter is Isis, and Artemis is Bubastis.
Ritual godform
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Hiereus
Modern- Who says so
- The orders' Egypt (1875 onward)
- Earliest verified attestation
- 1909 CE
- Ancient or scriptural source
- None found
- Evidence
- The source states it
The ritual names the god outright. Evidence of what the Golden Dawn did with him in 1888, which is a different question from what Egyptian sources say about him.
Evidence
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Aleister Crowley, for the A∴A∴, Liber O vel Manus et Sagittae, 1909 — The Officers and the Stations of the Officers
is the name of the Hiereus, and he is “Horus in the City of Blindness
Cited by the ritual's own heading rather than by page: this scan sets the folio 248 as 243, so no run of page numbers can establish the leaf, and a number nobody read is not written down as though it had been.