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<blockquote data-quote="Steampunkette" data-source="post: 8376160" data-attributes="member: 6796468"><p>Osiris and Isis are the parents of Ra, who is the Horus of the Eastern Horizon, and Horus of the Western Horizon. Re and Re-Horakhty are also his names.</p><p></p><p>Horus is his Title, like Pharaoh is the Title of Tutankhamen or any of the Ramses.</p><p></p><p>His wife is Hathor, who has the head of a Bull because of the Contending.</p><p></p><p>The Contending happened after Osiris' death. All of the gods knew that Set had killed him and Ra was his heir. But Set, as Osiris' brother, had a claim to the throne. The remaining gods didn't want to pick sides, so they made Ra and Set compete against each other in a long series of challenges.</p><p></p><p>In -every- challenge, Set cheated. And when Ra pointed it out, they all had a good laugh at their Brother's shenanigans and set out a new challenge, declaring the previous challenge invalid.</p><p></p><p>During one such challenge, in which Ra and Set were fighting as Hippopotami in the Nile, Ra's wife Hathor decided to cheat on Ra's behalf! He was -so- furious at her that he cut off her head in a fit of rage and it was swept away by the Nile. Immediately regretting his actions, he lopped the head off a nearby cow, slapped it on her shoulders, and apologized.</p><p></p><p>Ra eventually beat Set in the Contending, then let Set have his sexual way with Ra's backside as a consolation for losing... that... uh... gets into a different story involving poison, salad, and Set having a disc appear on his forehead... I'm not making this part of the story, up, either. It's part of why the Stargate TV show had characters with golden discs on their forehead...</p><p></p><p>During the New Kingdom Era, a lot of the Old Gods were kind of combined in an attempt to make things clearer, sort of like the various comic book reboots when things get too convoluted 'cause people were actively writing new myths about the gods on the Regular.</p><p></p><p>So Isis wound up gaining some of Hathor's traits, specifically the horns of a cow while she retained the Sun Disk of earlier works. But in the "New Canon" the Contending didn't actually happen. Or if it did, it happened differently.</p><p></p><p>That's also about the time they largely swapped over to just calling him by his title, Horus, though they still used the Eye of Ra as an important symbol.</p><p></p><p>This slurry of info brought to you by: Someone who did -way- too much research to make a City of Heroes character.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Steampunkette, post: 8376160, member: 6796468"] Osiris and Isis are the parents of Ra, who is the Horus of the Eastern Horizon, and Horus of the Western Horizon. Re and Re-Horakhty are also his names. Horus is his Title, like Pharaoh is the Title of Tutankhamen or any of the Ramses. His wife is Hathor, who has the head of a Bull because of the Contending. The Contending happened after Osiris' death. All of the gods knew that Set had killed him and Ra was his heir. But Set, as Osiris' brother, had a claim to the throne. The remaining gods didn't want to pick sides, so they made Ra and Set compete against each other in a long series of challenges. In -every- challenge, Set cheated. And when Ra pointed it out, they all had a good laugh at their Brother's shenanigans and set out a new challenge, declaring the previous challenge invalid. During one such challenge, in which Ra and Set were fighting as Hippopotami in the Nile, Ra's wife Hathor decided to cheat on Ra's behalf! He was -so- furious at her that he cut off her head in a fit of rage and it was swept away by the Nile. Immediately regretting his actions, he lopped the head off a nearby cow, slapped it on her shoulders, and apologized. Ra eventually beat Set in the Contending, then let Set have his sexual way with Ra's backside as a consolation for losing... that... uh... gets into a different story involving poison, salad, and Set having a disc appear on his forehead... I'm not making this part of the story, up, either. It's part of why the Stargate TV show had characters with golden discs on their forehead... During the New Kingdom Era, a lot of the Old Gods were kind of combined in an attempt to make things clearer, sort of like the various comic book reboots when things get too convoluted 'cause people were actively writing new myths about the gods on the Regular. So Isis wound up gaining some of Hathor's traits, specifically the horns of a cow while she retained the Sun Disk of earlier works. But in the "New Canon" the Contending didn't actually happen. Or if it did, it happened differently. That's also about the time they largely swapped over to just calling him by his title, Horus, though they still used the Eye of Ra as an important symbol. This slurry of info brought to you by: Someone who did -way- too much research to make a City of Heroes character. [/QUOTE]
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