Horus '(the) great black (one)'. The Greek form of "Her-ur" (or "Har wer") is Haroeris. Other variants include "Hor Merti" 'Horus of the two eyes' and "Horkhenti Irti". Horus gradually took on the nature as both the son of Osiris and Osiris himself. He was referred to as Golden Horus Osiris. In the temple of Denderah he is given the full royal titulary of both that of Horus and Osiris. Some accounts have Horus Osiris being brought back to life by Isis, but there is no proven connection with the story of Jesus, as some have suggested, and many serious scholars
Horus called themselves "followers of Horus", and Horus became the tutelary deity of the unified nation and its kings. Yet Horus and Set cannot be easily equated with the two-halves of the country. Both deities had several cult centers in each region, and Horus is often associated with Lower Egypt and Set with Upper Egypt. Other events may have also affected the myth. Before even Upper Egypt had a single ruler, two of its major cities were Nekhen, in the far south, and Nagada, many miles to the north. The rulers of Nekhen, where Horus was the patron deity, are generally