Horus as bright as the sun was explained by a tale, known as "The Contendings of Horus and Seth". In this tale, it was said that Set, the patron of Upper Egypt, and Horus, the patron of Lower Egypt, had battled for Egypt brutally, with neither side victorious, until eventually the gods sided with Horus. As Horus was the ultimate victor he became known as "ḥr.w wr" "Horus the Great", but more usually translated "Horus the Elder". In the struggle, Set had lost a testicle, and Horus's eye was gouged out. Horus represented the eclipsing binary Algol in the Calendar of
Horus swift grey throat patch and a brown rump. The form "toulsoni" of northwestern Angola and Zimbabwe is a dark morph of nominate "A. h. horus", with a dark rump and small throat patch. Both dark forms have sometimes been split as separate species. Horus, whose name this bird commemorates, was the ancient Egyptian god of the sun, son of Osiris and Isis. Horus swift The Horus swift ("Apus horus") is a small bird in the swift family. It breeds in sub-Saharan Africa. It has an extensive continuous distribution from eastern and southern South Africa north to southern Zambia and central Mozambique,