Name ▲▼ | Origin ▲▼ | Description ▲▼ |
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God name "Har-pi-kruti" | Egyptian | Form of the Egyptian god Horus, as a child sitting on his mother's knee. |
God name "Harpocrates" | Greek | The Greek form of the Egyptian god Har-pi-kruti (Horus the Child), made by the Greeks and Romans the god of silence. This arose from a pure misapprehension. It is an Egyptian god, and was represented with its "finger on its mouth," to indicate youth, but the Greeks thought it was a symbol of silence. Greek |