Horus

God of: Kingship and the sky
Recognised by: A falcon, or a falcon-headed man in the double crown
Chief cult centre: Edfu

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.

Egyptian sources What Egyptians wrote, on walls, coffins and papyri. What that means

In the correspondence web

Herodotus gives the Greek name of Horus as Apollo, in Book II, 156. Horus in the correspondence web, with the sentence it rests on.

In the Golden Dawn's Neophyte hall the Hiereus takes the form the ritual calls Horus. The Officers and the Stations of the Officers

Horus in later esoteric traditions

The Hiereus of the Golden Dawn's Neophyte hall takes his god-form, seated in the west as Horus in the place of darkness. His falcon also appears on the Stele of Revealing twice over: as Ra-Horakhty enthroned, and as the winged disk of Behdety above the scene, which Thelema reads as Hadit. And the eye of Horus is now the most recognisable Egyptian sign in circulation, and the myth behind it is worth having beside it: the eye is injured by Set in their contest and then restored, which is where its sense of wholeness and healing comes from.

Modern occult and initiatory traditions This records how later traditions understood and worked with the deity; the Egyptian-language account appears above.

Horus on Wikipedia The section's method