Har-pa-khered
(Harpocrates)
"Horus
the Child". The form of Horus as
a young boy, distinguished from Horus as an adult.
He
is portrayed as a naked child with a finger in his mouth,
sitting on a lotus flower or on the knee of his mother Isis.
He was invoked to ward off dangerous creatures.
As
the son of Osiris he was also a
vegetation god, portrayed with a jar or a horn of plenty.
In
the New Empire he became very popular and his cult was expanded
substantially during the time of the Roman Empire.
Statuettes
of Har-pa-khered from the Greco-Roman period depicted him
riding on a goose or a ram.
The
Greeks called him Harpocrates (Harpokrates).
The
Encyclopedia Mythica
