Horus

Depicted as a falcon or as a man with a falcon’s head, Horus was a sky god associated with war and hunting. He was also the embodiment of divine kingship, and in some eras, the reigning king was considered to be a manifestation of Horus.

According to the Osiris myth, Horus was the son of Isis and Osiris, magically conceived after the murder of Osiris by his brother Set. Horus was raised to avenge his father’s murder. One tradition holds that Horus lost his left eye fighting with Set, but his eye was magically healed by the god Thoth. Because the right and left eyes of Horus were associated, respectively, with the sun and the moon, the loss and restoration of Horus’s left eye gave a mythical explanation for the phases of the moon.

Alignment: Lawful Good

Domains: War, Light

Symbol: Falcon with one eye