Starstruck Mythology

Sah: The Father of the Gods  Sah was a god worshipped within the Egyptian Empire which embodied all the stars in the sky and was known as the father to the gods. Not much is known of this god as hieroglyphic messages are yet to have been fully decoded in terms of the stories of Sah.  This god had a consort named Sopdet, who lives in the Greek constellation of Orion. Sah and Sopdet are known in a famous translated passage, which states that deceased kings and pharaohs enter the sky "In the name of Sopdet" after serving for "a season on earth and a season in the sky" referencing that a death does not equal the end of service by the rulers of Egypt. Sah was often depicted rowing the boat across the skies to aid kings who died in battle to reach the afterlife. Sah was often used to depict the star Sirius, known as the brightest star in the sky and was often mistaken and worshipped as a cow goddess in some Greco-Egyptian areas. This caused Sah to link with Isis, the dog-...

Horus, the Sun God  Horus, also known in Egyptian myth as Hor, Har, or Heru, was a falcon god whose right eye is a sun and the left eye was the moon. The sun represented power and the moon represents healing, and many areas of Egypt saw the rise of Falcon Cults which worshipped the god. He was known under many local names, which translate to "Horus, Son of Isis" or "Horus of the Horizon" among many others. One such story involving Horus was that the reigning king of Nekhen, an area of Egypt, was a manifestation of the god. This became widely accepted as fact after the unification of Lower and Upper Egypt. Due to this, every King of Egypt thereafter adopted a Horus name, which appeared on many tombs in a square frame called a serekh. Towards the middle to late end of the Egyptian empire, images of Horus spearing an old pharaoh named Seth in the head, as the king allowed for uprisings to occur. This imagery was used throughout Egypt to discourage riots and rebellions ...