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المستخلص
To the ancient Egyptians, names were essential. They represented aspects of a person and his personality, and often more than one name was required to accomplish this. The concept is not difficult to understand when modern people remember that they haveten to name their own children properly, with names full of meaning, or to memorialize an ancestor. The magical power of names is reiterated throughout Egyptian history at all levels of society for the name itself was considered to carry knowledge and power. In the myth of Re and Isis the source of Re’s power was his sacred name. Moreover, between the gates of the underworld the deceased needed to know the names of the guardian demons to avoid their danger and to pass between the gates. Egyptology itself owes a great deal to royal names, because such names were the key to decipher the ancient Egyptian language.
Since the fourth Egyptian dynasty, the king had five names. The Horus name was the earliest of the King’s names. The kings of the Dynasties I to III recorded their Horus names in rectangular frames which were later called srh since the XVIII dynasty¹.
Each of these was surmounted by an image of the royal hawk, Horus. Thisrepresented the belief from predynastic period that the king was the physical
embodiment of Horus on earth. Beckerath suggests that the original meaning of that name was ”Horus of the palace” ( hr -^ 6 h)^ 2 The Horus name in the titulary was in Certain early examples replaced by a Seth-name and though it was the Horus name which was eventually established, the circumstance may be an index to the political situation which was the background of the titulary. Frankfort states that name remains the simplest and most direct statement regarding the king’s nature. For
example, the Horus names of kings of the dynasty I demonstrate the warlike aspects of Horus and the King at the beginning of unification. hr -^ c h3 was ”the Fighting Hawk”, hr-dn was ”Horus who Strikes”.