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Ancient Egyptian deities: Hauron
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Hauron

also Hurun, Horon
 
    Originally a Canaanite desert deity, Hauron, to the Egyptians Hwr or the like (transliteration Hwr, Hwrn, Hwrwn), was adopted by them as a protective god during the New Kingdom. At Pi-Ramesse, one of the god's cult centres, a statue was found of the falcon-headed god protecting the child Ramses II.[1] He was identified with the Great Sphinx at Giza and worshipped as the sun god [2] Horemakhet-Hauron (or Hauron-Harmachis etc).

The Great Sphinx The Great Sphinx at Giza
Courtesy Jon Bodsworth

    Amenhotep II built a small chapel in his honour.[3], as did Seti I, dedicated as a place of worship for the common people:
...He has made as his monument for his father Hauron, Horus in the Horizon - the making for him [of /////] advanced as a place of [/////] a place of prayer for the common folk... [4]
A temple at Memphis is also documented.
    Hauron was depicted as a sphinx or a falcon, at times with a double crown and as Hauron-Atem he was also identified with this creator god. He was referred to as the brave herdsman and as the one who chases the beasts of prey from the pasturage.[5]

Other Middle Eastern deities worshipped in Egypt:
Anat
Astarte, Ishtar
Baal
Kadesh
Reshef
Footnotes:
[1] Bard & Shubert 1999, p.757
[2] Pinch 2004, p.206
[3] Shaw 2003, p.87
[4] Benedict G. Davies, "Egyptian historical inscriptions of the nineteenth dynasty" in Volume 2 of Documenta Mundi, Aegyptiaca , No 2, Paul Aströms förlag, 1997, p.275
[5] Leitz 2002, p.108
 
Bibliography:
Kathryn A. Bard, Steven Blake Shubert, Encyclopedia of the archaeology of ancient Egypt,Routledge, 1999
Christian Leitz (ed.), Lexikon der ägyptischen Götter und Götterbezeichnungen, Volume 5, Orientalia Lovaniensia analecta ; 110-116, 129, Peeters Publishers, 2002
Geraldine Pinch, Egyptian Mythology: A Guide to the Gods, Goddesses, and Traditions of Ancient Egypt, Oxford University Press US, 2004
Ian Shaw, The Oxford history of ancient Egypt.Oxford University Press, 2003
 
 
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