Horon
Canaanite · deity · mythic · Recorded classification
Horon is the god you call about a snake. KTU 1.100 is a long incantation in which the mother of the mare, bitten, appeals in turn to El, Baal, Dagan, Anat and Athtart, Yarikh, Resheph, Athirat, Shapshu — the whole pantheon, in order — and none of them is the answer; the answer is Horon, who comes from Mount Arashih and does the work. He is also the clearest case of a Levantine god exported into Egypt and doing better there: as Hauron he is worshipped at Giza, closely associated with Harmachis, and his name can be used of the Great Sphinx itself. Whether he has an underworld side is argued; the consensus has moved toward reading him as protective.
Domains
- magic
- protection
Powers
- to bind a serpent's venom by incantation
Sources
- Horon is a Canaanite and Ugaritic god of magic and exorcism, especially of spells against snakes, invoked by Shapshu in KTU 1.100, and worshipped in Egypt as Hauron, whose name could designate the Great Sphinx.: KTU 1.100. (primary); Reference treatments of Horon and of the Egyptian Hauron at Giza. (secondary)