Marble ancient Egyptian religion eagle god Horus sculpture

The Horus sculpture of ancient Egyptian religion was a falcon with his right eye as the sun or the morning star, representing power and essence, and his left eye as the moon or the twilight star, representing healing. From the beginning of Egypt’s first Kings, rulers were considered to be earthly incarnations of Horus, the god of divine kingship. As part of royal worship, temples display statues of Horus like this falcon, celebrating the ruler’s role as a mediator between man and God. In ancient Egyptian mythology, it was the patron saint of the pharaohs, the symbol of kingship, and also the god of vengeance. The Horus sculpture, the son of Osiris and ISIS, was a figurehead of an eagle, wearing an Egyptian crown, a linen skirt around the waist, and holding a Voth cane and Anka, the symbol of life.

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The nature of Horus sculpture, as well as the stories and legends about him, have always changed with the development of history. Think of Horus as a combination of many other deities associated with imperial power, the sky, and so on. Most of these gods were sun gods. The ancient Egyptian stone carving was for the Pharaoh’s regime, that is to say, the carvers had to meet the requirements of the Pharaoh as much as possible. As the Horus sculpture was dominated by religious ideology and strictly subject to the aesthetic view of the upper society, the craftsmen had to strictly abide by the “positive rule” when carving, that is, whether the figure was standing or sitting, it had to be still. And the facial expression is always solemnly looking straight ahead, Horus sculpture which renders the work “regular” with a royal character.

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