One enduring mystery from ancient Egypt is the identity and import of Horus the Elder. This is little understood in the modern day. What is sometimes called the Ennead describes a group of deities who had incarnations over time and encountered one another often. Horus the Elder belongs in this group, although the Ennead of Heliopolis does not always include him. In the stories that survive, Set killed Osiris, whom other factors in the religion seem to suggest remains dead due to being evil. Why did Set do this? It is not so much a senseless act when one looks for Horus the Elder in the story. Horus the Elder had been killed by Osiris. The fact that Horus the Younger appears later could suggest that Horus the Elder was really his father and the murder had a motive of passion, since it was Osiris who was married to Horus the Younger’s mother Isis, and not Horus the Elder. Alternatively, connecting Horus the Elder and Horus the Younger through theories of reincarnation could have been a preoccupation in Egypt, and may have resulted in the theories Egyptians had of multiple souls and their vagaries. Why would this matter? You’d have to know Horus the Elder to understand.
The relationships between Egyptian gods and their associations in the Hindu pantheons may be surprising sometimes if looked at today, and obviously most of them are lost to time, but there was a period in history when they were intentional and fairly well understood, perhaps as much as the Greek and Roman gods.
For instance, Horus the Elder has an association which should not be listed, as does Ptah. But Horus the Younger is associated with Rudra, which is surprising in view of Set’s association with Shiva because in Hinduism Rudra is considered something like a vedic Shiva, to say the very least. Often Rudra is seen to be an aspect of Shiva outright. Hathor is associated with Parvati, though, which starts to bring things into focus again if we consider the myths involved. The truth of what we can infer about Set and Horus may carry much esoteric value, but it does suggest that there’s more to their relationship than myths we hear of today that mostly play out ancient Egyptian warnings about strangers and foreign influences. These were very common in ancient Egypt and were the major system for warning people of foreign threats.
Bast is associated with Sachi. Nephthys is associated with Lakshmi. Thoth may be associated with Kartikeya in his Subrahmanya aspect, but this is a little less clear.
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