Ancient Mythology, the son of Osiris, who has been identified with Horus, the Egyptian god of the sun. He was the god of mystery and silence, and, on that account, used to be represented as having been born with his finger on his mouth. His worship was widely spread throughout Greece, and even in Rome itself, where at one time his worship was interdicted by the senate on account of the excesses which marked the mysterious festivals. He filled in the Egyptian mythology the place which Apollo occupied in that of Greece. His statue stood at the entrance of most of the Egyptian temples. The figure was that of a naked youth crowned with an Egyptian mitre, holding in one hand a cornucopia, and sometimes a lotus flower, sometimes a quiver.