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Horus's destiny is to kill Set---this feud represents the conquering of the good and moral over the evil.
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With hieroglyphics and Egyptian deities adorning the interior of this Middle Eastern/Mediterranean restaurant, a drink and food combo both named after the falcon-headed Egyptian god Horus, and a giant wadjet (the protective eye of Horus) on side of the restaurant, it's easy to pretend you are dining in Horus's temple on the banks of the Nile, even if it's just on the banks of Avenue B. Wind down like an Egyptian
Dining 2009
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Gay Web-site users, fearful that their real identities will be ferreted out by eavesdropping security agents, are logging off in droves; the number of subscribers in Horus's chat room has dropped from 400 to nine since the Queen Boat convictions.
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Warrior Sun-god: [133] hence confusion was inevitably introduced between the enemies of Re, the original victims in the legend, and Horus's traditional enemies, the followers of Set.
The Evolution of the Dragon G. Elliot Smith
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The story of the dragon-conflict is really a recital of Horus's vendetta against Set, intimately blended and confused with different versions of
The Evolution of the Dragon G. Elliot Smith
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By a confusion with Horus's other fight against the followers of Set, the enemies of Re become identified with Set's army and they are transformed into crocodiles, hippopotami and all the other kinds of creatures whose shapes the enemies of Osiris assume.
The Evolution of the Dragon G. Elliot Smith
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Horus's loss of an eye, which looms so large in Egyptian legends, is possibly more closely related to the earliest attempts at explaining eclipses of the sun and moon, the "eyes" of the sky.
The Evolution of the Dragon G. Elliot Smith
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In the further development of the myth, when the Sun-god had completely usurped his mother's place, the infamy of her deeds of destruction seems to have led to her being confused with the rebellious men who were now called the followers of Set, Horus's enemy.
The Evolution of the Dragon G. Elliot Smith
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Thus the new weapon of the gods -- we have already noted Hathor's knife and Horus's winged disk, which is the fire from heaven, the lightning and the thunderbolt -- is the flood.
The Evolution of the Dragon G. Elliot Smith
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There were four heavy cruisers and eleven lighter ships of the _Horus's_ size and armament.
Talents, Incorporated Murray Leinster 1935
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