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The original form of Horus was probably that of a sky god, known as "lord of the sky". The Egyptian word " her" (hor, har), from which the god's name is derived means "the one on high", or "the distant one", probably in reference to the soaring flight of the hunting falcon, if not a reference to the solar aspect of the god. Mythologically, the god was imagined as a celestial falcon, whose right eye was the sun and left eye the moon. The speckled feathers of his breast were probably considered to be the stars, while his wings were the sky that created the wind. In this form, Horus was apparently worshipped at some of Egypt's earliest shrines such as at Nekhen (Heirakonpolis), where he was assimilated with a number of other local falcon gods. In this capacity, Horus was the patron of the Nekhen monarchy that grew into the historical pharaonic state and hence, the first known national god.
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Horus is one of the oldest and most significant of the deities in the Ancient Egyptian religion who was worshiped from at least the late Predynastic period through to Greco-Roman times. Different forms of Horus’s are recorded in history and these are treated as distinct gods by Egyptologists. Horus as a Falcon bearing orange Sun disk wrapped with a golden cobra serpent. It was said in ancient Egypt that the Sun was his right eye and the Moon his left eye. “Down to the earth hath looked the heavenly Falcon: Soma with wisdom views all living creatures". The earliest recorded form is Horus the Falcon who was the patron deity of Nekhen in Upper Egypt and who is the first known national god, specifically related to the king who in time became to be regarded as a manifestation of Horus in life and Osiris in death.

Horus depicted as the Falcon God as a symbol of kingship over the entire kingdom.

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"Horus was often the ancient Egyptian's national patron god. He was usually depicted as a falcon-headed man wearing the pschent as a symbol of kingship over the entire kingdom."

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