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GYŐRY, HEDVIG: A Pataikos with Hawks on the Shoulders

linked with the appearance of Nofertum in the composition, could bear witness to the connection between Nofertum and Horus.

94 The dwarf, already having many childlike features, was thus drawn into the circle of the child-god par excellence, who in time was worshipped more and more often as Horus-the-child. This could be the reason why the sign of the marsh (Ml

5) at times appears on the bottom of a complex Pataikos compositon series: possibly it hints at the myth of the birth of Horus in the marshes of Khemmis.

93 And as a general conception, several other aspects of Horus would fit the nature of the Pataikos as the one subdueing dangerous Sethian animals: Horus was nb-¥t ("the Lord of slaying ") and nb-snd ("the Lord of fear"). Also Horus' epithet hntj-prw ("who presides over the houses"), which is often applied to the child in Khemmis,

96 stressed explicitly his victory over Seth, that is, he could take his place in his father's house only after defeating Seth.

97 He was usually given a dual aspect in this role: "0 you double Horus who presides over the houses, Lord of provisions, Great one in On. "

98 This "double Horus" was thus originally connected to Heliopolis and associated with Haroeris.

99 The doubled form is also mentioned in the Coffin Texts.

100 It is possible that this Heliopolitan idea of the "double Horus" was reflected in the symbolism of the two birds on the Pataikos, namely as expression of an idea that was formulated by Isis thus: "Atum, the Lord of the gods, has put a guard above the hawk, who is in my womb"

m That is, because of the ordonnance of Atum, a guardian was protecting the child of Isis, the embryo Horus, whose shape would be rather similar to that of the Pataikos figures. As the hawk of Horus was protecting the kings from the Old Kingdom, the protective function of a hawk - even in the shape of a statue - would be completely evident to all Egyptians, so Atum's guard above the young Horus would also have been represented as a hawk, or even, as a "double hawk". 94 As we have seen above, this connection also appears on the Horus cippi, via the Nofertum emblem; and compare with Stele Metternich (n. 38), Spell XI, 132: "You will not draw off'your poison against him. He is Nofertum!" 95 Often alluded to in magical texts, e.g. in the Metternich Stele. Cf. RÄRG, title "Harsiesis", pp. 275276, etc. 96 For hr-hntj-prw, see Kaplony, loc.cit. (n. 80) pp. 142-143; for the protective role, see CT II. 227253 = Sp. 149. 97 E.g. Pyr 1219d ("just as Horus took possesion of his father's house from his father's brother Seth in the presence of Geb") or BD 178,27-28. 98 Pyr 695-696 (Utt. 400). 99 Kees, Götterglaube (n. 87) p. 166 and n. 2. For a New Kingdom survival, see hr-hntj-ríw-prw pHarris 29,2 = hr-hntj-prw. 100 CT I. 288h (Sp.67): "The two Horuses are purified": CT VI. 197k: "Three (portions) are in the skx with the two falcons"

, 198c: "/ am cleansed ...just as Horus and That guarded her who is with the two Falcons." Sp. 581. Cf. Kuentz, Ch., Le chapitre 106 du Livre des Morts: à propos d'une stèle de Basse Époque, BIFAO 30 (1931) 823, 848, 849 n. 2, 860. 101 CT II. 219 (Sp 148).