Introduction
Horus the Elder (Haroeris) is an older sky and kingship deity, son of Geb and Nut and thus a full sibling of Osiris, Isis, Set, and Nephthys — distinct in origin from the more famous Horus son of Isis and Osiris.
Family
Two Horuses, One Name
Egyptian religious texts preserve both figures — this elder Horus of the Ennead generation, and the younger Horus born to Isis and Osiris a generation later — reflecting the merging over centuries of originally separate falcon-sky cults into a single complex deity. Later tradition increasingly blurred or merged the two, but earlier texts, including some Pyramid Texts, treat Horus the Elder as Osiris and Set's brother rather than Osiris's son, a distinction this article preserves rather than resolves.
Ancient Egyptian religion spanned three millennia and many regional cult centers, so parentage, roles and even gender pairings for a given deity often differ between the Heliopolitan, Hermopolitan, Memphite and Theban theological systems; the account above follows the most widely attested classical version.