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December 11, 2006   Set, off stage, "HORUS! You used to be my brother and now you're my NEPHEW?"
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I really have trouble understanding how some could think ONE entity could do it all!
The sketch above is done from a statuette of Isis and Horus, 330–30 B.C.E.; Ptolemaic period, Egyptian faience; H. 6 3/4 in. (17 cm) at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
If this image seems familiar to you, it's because you've seen it in a more recent guise:
Yes, the ancient mythology is just that weird, 'Horus the Elder' and 'Horus the Younger'. I've got my own weird understanding of all this. It's subject to change, but right now I'm viewing the divine complex thusly. Nuit, the 'Mother of the Gods', infinite space and ground of our being, and Set, the one Great of Strength, the Power that energizes everything. He may be a shapeshifter and change his face, but never his ROLE. He through interaction with Nuit, brought about Horus Changing One. Right now I'm seeing Horus as an entity who manifests in a myriads of forms and roles, as needed to fulfull Ma'at (order, balance, cosmic equilibrium). Then it gets even more complex as that which is divine within us humans enters the dynamic cosmic balance. One of those faces Horus wears might be your own!
Image from Wikipedia:
"Isis of Ten Thousand Names", "In many spells, she is also completely merged even with Horus, where invocations of Isis are supposed to automatically involve Horus' powers as well."
