HARPOCRATES  , originally an See also:

• EGYPTIAN

Egyptian deity, adopted by the Greeks, and worshipped in later times both by Greeks and See also:

• ROMANS
• ROMANS, EPISTLE TO THE

Romans . In See also:

• EGYPT

Egypt, Harpa-khruti, See also:

• HORUS (Egyptian Hor)

Horus the See also:

• CHILD
• CHILD, FRANCIS JAMES (1825-1896)
• CHILD, L
• CHILD, LYDIA MARIA (1802-1880)
• CHILD, SIR FRANCIS (1642-1713)
• CHILD, SIR JOHN (d. 1690)
• CHILD, SIR JOSIAH (163o - 1699)

child, was one of the forms of Horus, the See also:

• SUN
• SUN (0. Eng. sonne, Ger. sonne. Fr. soleil, Lat. sol, Gr. ijXior, from which comes helio- in various English compounds)

sun-See also:

• GOD

god, the child of See also:

• OSIRIS

Osiris . He was supposed to carry on See also:

• WAR
• WAR (O. Eng. werre, Fr. guerre, of Teutonic origin; cf. O.H.G. werran, to confound)

war against the See also:

• POWERS, HIRAM (1805-1873)

powers of darkness, and hence See also:

• HERODOTUS (c. 484-425 B.C.)

Herodotus (ii . 144) considers him the same as the See also:

• GREEK
• GREEK, ETRUSCAN AND

Greek See also:

• APOLLO (Gr. 'A2r6XXwv,'Airkkhwv)

Apollo . He was represented in statues with his See also:

• FINGER

finger on his mouth, a See also:

• SYMBOL (Gr. o-uµ(3oXov, a sign)

symbol of childhood . The Greeks and Romans, not understanding the meaning of this attitude, made him the god of silence (See also:

• OVID [PUBLIUS OvID1us NASO] (43 B.C.–A.D. 17)

Ovid, Metam. ix . 691), and as such he became a favourite deity with the later mystic See also:

• SCHOOLS

schools of See also:

• PHILOSOPHY (Gr. gthos, fond of, and vo4 (a, wisdom)

philosophy . See articles by G . Lafaye in Daremberg and Saglio's Dictionnaire See also:

• DES

des antiquites, and by E . See also:

• MEYER, CHRISTIAN ERICH HERMANN VON (18or-1869)
• MEYER, HEINRICH AUGUST WILHELM (1800-1873)
• MEYER, JULIUS LOTHAR (183o-1895)
• MEYER, KONRAD FERDINAND (1825-1898)
• MEYER, VICTOR (1848-1897)
• MEYER, [MARIE] PAUL HYACINTHE (184o- )

Meyer (s.v . Horos ") in See also:

• ROSCHER, WILHELM GEORG FRIEDRICH (1817–1894)

Roscher's Lexikon der Mythologie .