Edited by Rebecca Buchanan
Price: $10.99
Publication Date: 27 March 2023
Place of Publication: Asheville, North Carolina
ISBN: 979-8378766574
Pages: 178 pp
Binding Type: US Trade Paper
Trim Size: 5″ x 8″
Great One. Lord of the Sky. Pillar of His Mother. Dappled Within the Womb of Nut. Lord of the Sky.
Lord of the Horizon.
He is Horus. Or perhaps they are Horus. A complex Deity, he might be a singular entity with many aspects, or a multitude of Deities who share similar names and functions. The two most well-known and well-loved are Heru-Wer (Horus the Elder) and Heru-sa-Aset (Harpocrates or Horus the Younger). Heru-Wer is a cosmological being of right order and civilization. His right eye is the sun and his left eye is the moon. Heru-sa-Aset is the son of Isis and Osiris who defeated Set in battle and assumed his rightful throne; every Pharaoh is an incarnation of Horus the Younger, and the Eye of Horus is a symbol of prosperity, protection, and healing.
The hymns, poems, essays, rites, artwork, and short stories of this collection reflect that ambiguity, that individualized devotion and understanding. Some of these pieces focus exclusively on Heru-Wer/Horus the Elder. Others center on Heru-sa-Aset/Horus the Younger. Other writings look at still more entities or aspects. Each of these hymns, poems, essays, rites, works of art, and stories begins to build a picture — incomplete though it is — of Horus.
There is a glow on the horizon. The Sun is rising. Warm yourself in its light, and give thanks.
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
DEDICATION 1
Heru by Joan Lansberry
Introduction 9
Essays and Rites 13
BLESSED BE MY BELOVED by Merit Brokaw 15
HEKA FOR CLEAR SIGHT AND PERCEPTION by Taqerisenu 17
H̱NM ITN, OR A RITUAL FOR UNITING WITH
THE SUN DISK by Sarah Wheatley 22
HORUS IN THE RIA FORMOSA by secondgenerationimmigrant 29
MORNING RITUAL TO HERU WHO RESIDES IN
SHEDET by Sobekemiti 32
ON RA HORAKHTY by Ariadne Rainbird 36
A RITUAL FOR THE CORONATION OF
HERU-SA-ASET by Sobekemiti 39
THEOSOPHY AND ANCIENT EGYPT by Rev. Bill Duvendack 48
Hymns and Prayers 55
BIRD OF THE SUN by Anna Schoenbach 57
CLAWS OF CREATION by Morgan Cooney 59
DAYBREAKER by Morgan Cooney 61
THE DEAD MAN’S SPEECH by Rosario Aurelius 62
DEVOTION TO HORUS by Sofia Nocella 64
EAGLE OF GOLD by Morgan Cooney 66
THE ELDER by Taqerisenu 67
THE GLEAMING ONE by Morgan Cooney 69
GLIDING WITH THE GODS by Roger Camp 71
HAURON by Taqerisenu 72
HAWK by Khamheru 73
HAWK OF BLINDING GOLD by Morgan Cooney 74
HERU by Saqdiheru 75
HERU AS THE CHILD by Taqerisenu 76
HERU, DREAMING by Taqerisenu 77
HERU-PA-KHERED by Taqerisenu 78
HERU-SA-ASET IS THE GOD by Chelsea Luellon Bolton 79
HERU, SOARING HIGH by Tjemsy 81
HERU TRIO by Joan Lansberry 82
HORIZONSCAPE by Taqerisenu 83
HORUS IN MARCH by Jonathan Calloway 84
HORUS IS MISSING by Vonnie Winslow Crist 86
HORUS THE ONE ON HIGH by Phillip Miner 88
HYMN TO HARPOCRATES I by Jackson Evans 90
HYMN TO HARPOCRATES II by Jackson Evans 91
HYMN TO HELIOS HORUS by Jackson Evans 92
HYMN TO HERMES HORUS TRIPTOLEMUS by Jackson Evans 93
HYMN TO HERU BEHDETY by Translated by Chelsea Luellon Bolton 94
HYMN TO HORUS by Jackson Evans 95
HYMN TO HORUS AND ISIS by Jackson Evans 96
HYMN TO HORUS SOBEK by Jackson Evans 97
HYMN TO HORUS TRIPTOLEMUS by Jackson Evans 98
HYMN TO THE HOUSEHOLD GODS by Jackson Evans 99
HYMN TO ZEUS HORUS KAISOS by Jackson Evans 101
IN NOMINE VICTORIA by Rosario Aurelius 102
IN THE SKY by Chelsea Luellon Bolton 104
KHENTY-IRTY by Taqerisenu 106
KHENTY-KHETY by Taqerisenu 108
MANDULIS by Taqerisenu 109
MORNING HYMN TO HORUS OF BEHDET,
WITH COMMENTARY by Sofia Nocella 110
A PRAYER TO HERU-SA-ASET by Rebecca Sian Pyne 118
NIGHTTIME HAWK by Khamheru 120
PRAYER OF PROTECTION by Alessa Glasskova 121
PRAYER TO HERU-WER by Taqerisenu 123
PRAYER TO HORUS THE CHILD by Rebecca Buchanan 124
QEBESENUEF by Rosario Aurelius 125
RA HORAKHTY: A PRAYER by Ariadne Rainbird 127
RED HUNTER: HERU-WER by Morgan Cooney 128
ROW OF HORUS STATUES, TEMPLE OF RAMSES
II AT ABU SIMBEL by Karla Linn Merrifield 129
SELF-PORTRAIT ON THE NILE by Karla Linn Merrifield 130
A SUMMER SOLSTICE HYMN by Sobekemiti 131
THREE HAIKUS TO HORUS THE ELDER by Rebecca Buchanan 133
TWIN BROTHERS, TWO COMBATANTS by Chelsea Luellon Bolton 134
UPON HIS THRONE by Terra Akhert 136
Myths and Legends 139
A CHARM AGAINST CROCODILES by Taqerisenu 141
THE SOULS OF PE AND NEKHEN by Taqerisenu 150
HORUS STATUE: TEMPLE OF HORUS AT EDFU by Karla Linn Merrifield 155
APPENDIX A: EPITHETS OF HERU by Compiled by Chelsea Luellon Bolton 156
APPENDIX B: SOURCES ON HERU-SA-ASET by Compiled by Chelsea Luellon Bolton 161
Our Contributors 163
About Bibliotheca Alexandrina 171
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