Description The origin of a saviour in the guise of a little child is traceable to Child-Horus, who brought new life to Egypt every year as the Messu of the inundation.
But in the primitive phase it was a soul of life or of food ascending from the.
In a later stage the image of Horus on his papyrus represented the young god as solar cause in creation.
This was Horus in his pre-solar and pre-human characters of the fish, the shoot of the papyrus, or the branch of the endless years.
Description The origin of a saviour in the guise of a little child is traceable to Child-Horus, who brought new life to Egypt every year as the Messu of the inundation