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	Harpocrates - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Harpocrates, the child Horus, personifies the newborn sun each day, the first strength of the winter sun, and also the image of early vegetation.
		In the Alexandrian and Roman vogue for mystery cults at the turn of the millennium (Mystery Cults which had existed for almost a millenium before), the worship of Horus was widely extended, linked with Isis (his mother) and Serapis (Osiris, his father).
		Typically, "Harpocrates is the Babe in the Egg of Blue that sits upon the lotus flower in the Nile.
	en.wikipedia.org /?title=Harpocrates (593 words)

	Harpocrates - Free Encyclopedia of Thelema
		The young Horus (Egyptian Har), the Hellenistic god known to Greeks as Harpocrates (in Egyptian Har-pa-khered or Heru-pa-khered meaning "Har, the Child"), was received by Isis from Osiris in the underworld.
		Harpocrates, the child Horus, personifies the first strength of the winter sun, and also the image of early vegetation.
		Egyptian statues represent the child Horus, pictured as a naked boy with his finger on his mouth, a realization of the hieroglyph for "child" that is unrelated to the Greco-Roman and modern gesture for "silence".
	www.egnu.org /thelema/index.php/Harpocrates (297 words)

	Thelemapedia: The Encyclopedia of Thelema & Magick \| Harpocrates
		Harpocrates is the passive and concealed "form twin" in contrast to the active and conquering Ra-Hoor-Khuit.
		In ceremonial Magick, the Sign of Harpocrates consists of putting the right forefinger to the lips and pertains to the 0=0, Probationer Grade (which is typically paired with the Sign of Horus) of the A.'.A.'.
		In the Neophyte hall of the old Golden Dawn Neophyte Grade, Harpocrates is considered the "younger brother of Horus" and his station is in the path of Samech "between the place of Thmaist and that of the Evil Triad".
	www.thelemapedia.org /index.php/Harpocrates (684 words)

	vestalismaxima's Xanga Site
		Harpocrates is the God of Silence; and this silence has a very special meaning.
		Harpocrates is (in one sense) the symbol of the Dawn on the Nile, and of the physiological phenomenon which accompanies the act of waking.
		Harpocrates is, in fact, the passive side of his twin, Horus.
	www.xanga.com /home.aspx?user=vestalismaxima (1633 words)

	Topographical Bibliography s26. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Harpocrates 'the first of Amun', seated, wearing tall plumes and sun-disc, dedicated by Rer Rr, Prophet, sm3-priest in Koptos, son of Paiu(en)hor P3-jw-(n-)rw, Prophet, sm3-priest in Koptos, and Irterau Jrt-jr.w, Dyn.
		Harpocrates 'in Mendes', with head of Osiris which does not belong, dedicated by Harnakht rw-nt, Prophet of Amun, son of Ankh-psametek n-psmtk, Prophet of Amun, and Irterau Jrt-r.w, Late Period, in Leiden, Rijksmuseum van Oudheden, F.1931/2.5b (head is F.1931/2.5a).
		Harpocrates, inscribed, Late Period or Ptolemaic, in Vienna, Dorotheum, in 1997.
	www.ashmol.ox.ac.uk /gri/s26.html (10368 words)

	Infiltration Journal: King Edward Hotel
		The palatial hotel opened to the public on 11 May 1903 as part of George Gooderham's evil scheme to keep the centre of Toronto from drifting west, away from his considerable holdings in the east.
		Harpocrates asked if there was another bank of elevators down here that would take us up.
		When I opened the stairwell door, I was very surprised to see a middle-aged woman standing on the other side of the door, also with her hand on the doorknob.
	www.infiltration.org /journal-kinged.html (1262 words)

	Terracotta Harpocrates Figure with Grapes and Torch (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Typical of Greco-Roman depictions of male children, the god is depicted nude except for the cloak draped around his neck and shoulder.
		Harpocrates was a particularly popular deity for the Greeks and Romans in Egypt from the Late Period through the entire period of Roman domination.
		It is believed that Harpocrates was a protector of children and associated with the magical powers of Isis.
	www.fragmentsoftime.com /harpocr.htm (185 words)

	Infiltration: Degrassi High
		In the engine room, Harpocrates found some old ad boards about the school and was explaining to me how Centennial had pitched the idea of the Bell Centre to various corporate sponsors, when suddenly we heard noises above us that sounded like the door to the auditorium being opened.
		Harpocrates imagined this was an old oil-powered generator that the school elected to bury in sand rather than attempting to remove it slowly through the tunnels.
		Harpocrates climbed back down around the cage first, telling Locke and I that he'd give us the okay as soon as he was sure the coast was clear.
	www.infiltration.org /various-degrassi.html (1445 words)

	Choice Ptolemaic Egyptian Terracotta Harpocrates Bust
		Horus, the divine ruler of Egypt frequently seen represented as a falcon, was reinvented as Harpocrates, the child.
		Harpocrates was represented in art as a naked boy sucking his finger, as is evident in this bust.
		He eventually came to be associated with the god of silence and secrecy to the Greeks, but his roots lie in the god who won the throne of Egypt.
	www.trocadero.com /janus/items/290452/item290452store.html (224 words)

	venus.html
		Because this statuette was found in Egypt, it was believed to represent Isis, an Egyptian goddess associated with the fertility of women and agriculture, and her divine son, Harpocrates, in the guises of Venus and Cupid.
		The main cults of Harpocrates were located at Pelusium in the Egyptian Delta and in the Fayoum oasis, where Harpocrates was worshipped in several guises.
		Outside of Egypt, Harpocrates was typically portrayed as the nursing child of Isis.
	www.umich.edu /~kelseydb/Publications/spring2001/venus.html (725 words)

	ArtWorld ARTWORLD CATALOGUE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Round-topped stela in very good quality raised relief with Harpocrates (see notes) in the centre striding right, holding a staff with a ?gazelle head in his left hand and an ankh-symbol in his right hand.
		He wears a costume of near eastern origin with two sashes crossing over at the front and a long tail of hair from the crown of the head to the ground behind him.
		Behind Harpocrates on the left hand side is Sakhmet as a lion-headed woman crowned with a sun-disk and ureaus, holding a rod in her left hand and an ankh-symbol in her right hand, wearing a sheath dress.
	artworld.uea.ac.uk /objects/100/details.html (195 words)

	Harpocrates Terracottas
		His cult, often combined with that of Isis and Serapis, was popular in the whole Roman Empire.
		Not all depictions of child deities refer to Harpocrates.
		There are attestations of such shrines with a painted figure of Harpocrates.
	www.digitalegypt.ucl.ac.uk /memphis/harpocrates.html (124 words)

	[word-l] sub rosa (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		According to the myth, one fine afternoon a child god named Harpocrates stumbled upon the goddess Venus while she was engaged in one of her many illicit rendezvous.
		Venus's son Cupid, who happened to be in the neighborhood as well, quick-wittedly saved his mother's reputation by offering Harpocrates a beautiful rose in return for his vow of silence.
		Harpocrates kept his mouth shut, and the rose thereafter became the symbol of silence.
	www.ransford.org /pipermail/word-l/2003-March/000224.html (221 words)

	Aiwass - Free Encyclopedia of Thelema
		These puzzles accompanied with the hurried pace of Crowley's pen make it almost certain that the work comes from some form of higher intelligence communicating the message of the new aeon through Crowley.
		Aiwass claims to be the miniter of Hoor-paar-kraat, a god the ancient egyptians known as Harpocrates.
		Harpocrates is a form of the god Horus depicted as an innocent child.
	www.egnu.org /thelema/index.php/Aiwass (267 words)

	Mythology Page Library: Creative Minds Unlimited
		The god of the dead, and the god of the resurrection into eternal life; ruler, protector, and judge of the deceased, and his prototype (the deceased was in historical times usually referred to as "the Osiris").
		She was the mother of Horus the Child (Harpocrates), and was the protective goddess of Horus's son Amset, protector of the liver of the deceased.
		Isis was responsible for protecting Horus from Set during his infancy; for helping Osiris to return to life; and for assisting her husband to rule in the land of the Dead.
	www.create.org /myth/maymyth.htm (1414 words)

	Pompei Hints Solution (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		When Harpocrates mentions that Adrian is a friend of Popidius's The painter mentions that Popidius has asked him to renovate some frescos.
		Harpocrates complains about the painter winning all games and you (Adrian) remember a trick from Gaul to spot loaded dices.
		Harpocrates gets angry and calls for an aedil but you calm him and propose that it is only fair if you change dices for the next game.
	hem.passagen.se /zinana/pomprot/sidor/uk1-6.html (554 words)

	History of Egyptian Religion VIII, The Late Period (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Cult places and smaller chapels were built in order for the Ptolemeians to increase the income, and shares of these shrines were sold to Egyptian families to manage.
		Harpocrates was the young Horus child, depicted wearing the 'sidelock of youth', often sucking his fingers and sitting in the lap of Isis.
		In this period Isis identified with the Roman deity Demeter and she had already lost her Egyptian original symbolism which had been both that of the symbolical mother of Pharaoh, and that of a funeral deity together with her sister Nepthys, both of the Ennead at Heliopolis.
	www.philae.nu /PerAnkh/histrelig8.html (1937 words)

	Solutions Pompéi
		In the back room, place the scale on the table and put Harpocrates’ dice, and the painter’s dice, on each of the scale pans.
		When the painter’s trick is revealed, you will need to calm Harpocrates and play against the painter, using his own dice.
		When the stake has been recovered, Harpocrates offers you the necklace that he had pledged, and leaves the tavern.
	www.gamesover.com /walkthroughs/pompei.htm (4249 words)

	Renaissance Connection (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Harpocrates was the Greek god of silence, and in Greek art, he was shown as a small child with his finger to his lips.
		The gesture of putting a finger to one's lips is still used today as a universal request for silence.
		With his headdress pushed up to expose an ear, Harpocrates looks out at us between the Latin inscription at the top and bottom of the print, which translates into this advice: "If you don't learn to keep silent, you will speak of what you don't know."
	www.renaissanceconnection.org /harpocrates.php (155 words)

	Assumption of the Godform by Mark Stavish, M
		Then to formulate the image in the “East' of the temple area you are working in, and to move towards the image and into it, with your back towards the ‘East' and facing the ‘West'.
		Harpocrates is “the god who is the cause of all generation, of all nature, and of all the powers of the elements' and as such he ‘precedes all things and comprehends all things in himself.'[5]
		When the image is real to you, step forward, and assume his classical pose, of the left foot about six inches in front of the right, and raise your right forefinger to you mouth in the sign of silence.
	www.hermetic.com /stavish/rituals/godform.html (3392 words)

	Museum Rooms (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Along with the dozens of statuettes of Harpocrates, son of Isis, with his long fringe symbolizing childhood, there is a coloured plaster cast of the god Mi ithyphallic, and one of a young Dionysus on a chariot pulled by two lions (cabinet T, fig.27).
		The collection of terracottas in the tanagra style found in Hall 1 8a is one of the jewels of the Museum.
		Back in Hall 18, there are several cabinets displaying pottery of everyday use and, at the far end, a group of the famous hydriae of Hadra.
	www.grm.gov.eg /virtual_e_r18.html (494 words)

	Egypt: The Temple of Montu, Rattawy and Harpocrates at Medamud
		Egypt: The Temple of Montu, Rattawy and Harpocrates at Medamud
		However, a ruined temple of the Graeco-Roman period survives, which together with the war like god, Montu, is also dedicated to Rattawy (the female counterpart of Re who is often depicted like Hathor as a cow with a sun disk surmounting her head) and Harpocrates (Horus the Child).
		Behind the main sanctuary dedicated to Montu, his consort Rattawy and Harpocrates, is the smaller sanctuary of the sacred bull of Montu, with only a small section of exterior wall remaining.
	www.touregypt.net /featurestories/medamud.htm (622 words)

	Egypt After Alexander
		As Harpocrates, however, he wears the pschent, or pharaonic double crown, which combines the insignias of Upper Egypt (in the shape of a mitre) and Lower Egypt (an inflated hood, here without a stinger at the front).
		The finely polished bronze surface of this beautifully preserved statuette indicates that it was made in a high quality workshop.
		Workshops duplicated popular small-scale statuettes, often in creative ways: in order to produce replicas with a difference, the artisans took partial molds from different statuary types and combined them, sometimes disregarding matters of congruity.
	www.iub.edu /~iuam/online_modules/egypt/10.html (160 words)

	Commentary: Emblem 11 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The "Pharian Harpocrates" is the god Harpocrates from Pharos (or Alexandria) in Egypt.
		Harpocrates or Arpocrates was a form of Horus, the sun-god, and was traditionally represented as boy with his finger held to his lips (Augustine, City of God 18.5; Ovid, Metamorphoses 9.692; Varro On the Latin Language 5.57).
		In Catullus 102, the speaker claims that he can be trusted to keep his friend Cornelius' secrets, as a "very Harpocrates." Erasmus took the phrase "he imitates Harpocrates" as one of his Adages (Reddidit Harpocratem 4.1.52).
	www.mun.ca /alciato/c011.html (175 words)

	Harpocrates publishing - home page (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Harpocrates Publishing, founded in 1997, is a small, independent publishing house based in Alexandria, Egypt.
		The inspiration for its creation was the apparent lack of serious yet general public books about the city of Alexandria.
		To date Harpocrates has published eight works, six of them related to the town of its birth.
	www.harpocrates.com.eg (137 words)

	Religion, Magic and Medicine On–line Exhibit
		298), priests were also responsible for the cults of "Isis, Serapis, Harpocrates, and the associated gods." Besides the officiated cults of temples, communities, households, and individuals participated in the cults of a variety of other deities.
		In the Ptolemaic period Osiris was supplemented by the Ptolemaic deity Serapis and the young Horus was often depicted as Horus-the-child, Greek Harpocrates.
		At Tebtunis Isis was assimilated with the the Egyptian fertility goddess Renenutet; a small temple was dedicated to her just outside the Soknebtunis temple.
	ist-socrates.berkeley.edu /~tebtunis/lecture/rath_ex3.html (814 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		For Silence is the Equilibrium of Perfection; so that Harpocrates is the omniform, the universal Key to every Mystery soever.
		The Sphinx is the "Puzzel or Pucelle," the Feminine Idea to which there is only one complement, always different in form, and always identical in essence.
		It is impossible for inspiration itself to sound a dithyramb of Silence; for each new aspect of Harpocrates is worthy of the music of the Universe throughout Eternity.
	www.textfiles.com /occult/essayssil.occ (597 words)

	HARPOCRATES : The deity from Greek Mythology
		Not much has been heard about him since so perhaps they realised they'd made a terrible mistake.
		HARPOCRATES could have ended up as the God of Nail-Biting or Nose-Picking.
		There is a very cute picture of him sucking his finger with curly hair and staring eyes.
	www.godchecker.com /pantheon/greek-mythology.php?deity=HARPOCRATES (141 words)

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