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AKANA BAHUR

BASIC INFORMATION

[Name:] Akana Bahur
[Age:] 30
[Birthday:] 24 January, 1977
[Deity:] Horus, Egyptian
[Sexual Orientation:] Straight as an arrow.
[Family:]Parents, and siblings back in Egypt.

PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION

Akana is thirty years old, built lean and strong. She is five-seven, with dark brown hair and a honey-golden kiss to her skin. Her eyes are wide and bright, but one is a golden brown while the other is a pale blue. Normally she wears skirts and dresses, with assorted jewelry, but has been known to do the whole pants and comfortable shirts thing. She wears a lot of high-heels, and gets her make-over (eyebrows and legs waxed, with her facial and nails done) about once a month. She’s high maintenance, and looks it.

PERSONALITY

Akana is a seriously sort of woman. She doesn’t really smile a lot, and always looks like she’s going somewhere with a purpose. She told her mother and father once, that she didn’t believe in love, feeling that she had a calling instead. She reads and educates herself with the vigor of a well disciplined soldier. She is the type that takes charge with or without someone else approval, and she doesn’t take well to people back talking her. In Akana’s mind, she believes she has a divine sort of right to be listened to.

Some say she acts a bit like a man, particularly in the way she handles her business affairs. That aside though, she occasionally has a softer side, though it is very rare.

Likes: Akana enjoys Falconry. In fact, she owns a pair of falcons that are trained for hunting and she takes everywhere with her. She has invested time to learning Sebekkah and Tahtib (Ancient Egyptian martial arts), and self study.

Dislikes: She dislikes anything red; red hair, red clothing, red cars. If it is red, she doesn’t want it around her. Nor does she like donkeys, or gazelles, or anything else that primarily lives in the desert. She doesn’t bother to explain to people why that is, but Akana has been known to down right refuse to do something because of these factors.

Quirks (of a sort): She is cold, and unaffectionate. A bit like you would imagine an ice queen, or someone unable to love.

HISTORY

Born in Alexandra, Egypt in 1977, Akana the second daughter of Ako Bahur and Michelle Wieriche (an American living and working in Egypt for many years). Her parents had meet six years earlier while doing reach on one of the tombs in the Valley of Kings. Though both their families were hesitant about their relationship, the two eventually married and had two children, Nane and Akana. Incidentally, two days before Akana was born her Grandfather Bahur died peacefully in his sleep. Akana was born premature, 3 weeks before her due date, but without much incident. She was a surprisingly healthy child and was released with her month not long after the birth.

Her early childhood was nothing remarkable. She and her sister (and later her brothers) grew up around the ruins of Ancient Egypt, a place that Akana felt was her home…and always would be. She felt a kinship to the land, and as she grew up she slowly began to understand more and more why that was.

Her Grandmother Bahur spoiled her terribly, often taking her on trips without her siblings to ancient sights and telling her stories of the gods and her grandfather. When Akana was ten, her grandmother told her that she, Akana, was the reincarnation of Horus. She had known it the moment the girl was born…Because of her eyes- so like her grandfather’s.

And thus began Akana’s education. As the years passed, she began to remember glimpses of her ‘past’ lives, which she identified as being her, Horus. She began to understand that death was nothing to fear, it was a temporal body she lived in anyway, and that her ‘family’ line would produce another child when she prepared to die, and that child’s body would become her own.

When Akana was old enough to attend university, her mother pleaded with their father that she go to an American school. Michelle wanted her daughter (who had not ever been to the US, but attended an International School in Alexandra) to see her American family, and learn about her other history (Michelle had increasingly become concerned with the way her daughter bonded so quickly to her Grandfather, and her radical devotion to ‘the old religions’.)

So Akana applied and was accepted to Ohio State University. Like her family before her, Akana studied history (though she leaned toward Egyptian Military and Cultural History), and graduated with Top Honors in four years.

Upon graduation she went back to Egypt for some time, working toward her second degree (Ph.D) at the behest of her parents. While in school she met the son of a local Muslim Business man. And while she never finished her Ph.d, Akana did end up married. Within a year of their marriage she had a son (Azzam) , before their marriage began to sour.

Aafiya Abd al-Malik began to become unhappy with his wife’s independence. With increased pressure from his family and friends, he began to try to assert control over his wife (who had only married him because her father was a traditionalist and arranged the marriage, not because of personal interest). When this did little to gain control over Akana, Aafiya tried different tactics, including the attempt of murder of their child.

This was, of course, met with a heated and harsh reaction. Akana was not an emotional individual, but the fate of her family line was at stake with the life of her child. When his live became endangered, it was clear that steps would need to be taken to assure her husband did not live long enough to regret his stupidity.

While Akana and her son were visiting Aafiya’s family in Cairo, two months after the treat against her son, Aafiya was killed in a terrorist attack. The family wealth was inherited by her son and herself, without much remorse on Akana’s part.

With her son, Akana moved back to the US and officially began the paper work to declare her American citizenship. With her, to took the wealth left behind by her husband. She is guarded about who gets to see her son as well, being sure that his nannies are well screened, and that his education is the best that can be found. In accordance to Aafiya’s father’s wishes, however (and to keep her husband’s shares of the business), Azzam is being educated in Muslim traditions. Though Akana is careful to also teach him in pained detail what exactly it is that runs in their family line.

WEAKNESSES

Cold and unaffectionate, many find that dealing with Akana can be difficult. She is difficult to approach, and is seen as something of an unfriendly person even among her family. Because of her detachment, Akana leads a lonely sort of life. She finds it difficult to experience even the basic emotion of sadness (even when she wants to), and if anyone is present she is consistently driven to be a leader, and an exceptional one at that. She as no real contact with her family in the US, and nor does she care to. And she is paranoid that her late-husband’s family might aim to kidnap her child, who she views as only the vessel to her future.

STRENGTHS

Akana is confident and well educated. She is firm in her resolve and a natural leader. She as far as godly powers go, she has a natural affinity for falcons, able to communicate with them in a manner of speaking. She possesses what some have called a ’kingly’ aura. Cunning and determined, Akana is completely focused on her goals- to find and kill Set. Oh, and she’s really wealthy.

GENERAL DEITY HISTORY

The name "Horus" is a general catchall for multiple deities, the most famous of whom is Harseisis (Heru-sa-Aset) or Horus-son-of-Isis (sometimes called Horus the Younger) who was conceived after the death of his father, Osiris, and who later avenged him. In all the Horus deities the traits of kingship, sky and solar symbology, and victory reoccur. As the prototype of the earthly king, there were as many Horus gods as there were rulers of Egypt, if not more.

The oldest of the Horus gods is appropriately named Horus the Elder (Heru-ur), and was especially venerated in pre-Dynastic Upper Egypt along with Hathor. In this very ancient form, Horus is also a creator god, the falcon who flew up at the beginning of time. The pre-Pharaohnic rulers of Upper Egypt were considered "shemsu-Heru" or "followers of Horus", and the original Horus is himself considered in some myths to be the brother of Seth and Osiris, second-born of the five children of Geb and Nut (Osiris, Horus, Seth, Isis, Nephthys). Horus the Elder's city was Letopolis, and his eyes were thought to be the sun and moon. When these two heavenly bodies are invisible (as on the night of the new moon) he goes blind and takes the name Mekhenty-er-irty, "He who has no eyes". When he recovers them, he becomes Khenty-irty, "He who has eyes". A warrior-god armed with a sword, Horus could be especially dangerous to those around him in his vision-deprived state, and during one battle in particular he managed to not only knock off the heads of his enemies but of the other deities fighting alongside him, thus plunging the world into immediate confusion that was only relieved when his eyes returned.

Other notable Horus gods are the previously mentioned Harseisis, as well as Horus of Behdet (sometimes called simply Behdety) who was represented as a winged sun disk, Anhur (a form of Horus the Elder and Shu), Horakhety (Ra-Heru-akhety) who was a syncretism of Ra and Horus, and Harpokrates (Heru-pa-khered) or Horus the Child. In the form of Harpokrates, Horus is the danger-beset son of Isis with one finger to his lips, signifying his childish nature (also evident in his princely sidelock and naked status). Harpokrates represented not only the royal heir, but also the newborn sun.

Horus deities are frequently depicted as hawks or hawk-headed men, though some are represented as fully human. The pharaoh was considered to be the Living Horus, the temporal stand-in for Horus in the earthly domain. As the opponent of Seth (who, though initially an Upper Egyptian deity himself, later came to represent not only Lower Egypt but the desert surrounding Egypt), Horus is alternately a brother vying for the throne and unification of Egypt (Horus the Elder), or a royal heir come to reclaim his inheritance (Horus the Younger).

Horus can be seen at the top of the serekh of early kings, though in very rare cases his place was usurped by Set (Peribsen, Dynasty 2) or even shared with him (Khasekhemwy, Dynasty 2). Horus is also depicted on the famous Narmer palette along with Bat, an earlier form of Hathor.

A passage from the Coffin Texts (passage 148) sums up Horus in his own words:

"I am Horus, the great Falcon upon the ramparts of the house of him of the hidden name. My flight has reached the horizon. I have passed by the gods of Nut. I have gone further than the gods of old. Even the most ancient bird could not equal my very first flight. I have removed my place beyond the powers of Set, the foe of my father Osiris. No other god could do what I have done. I have brought the ways of eternity to the twilight of the morning. I am unique in my flight. My wrath will be turned against the enemy of my father Osiris and I will put him beneath my feet in my name of 'Red Cloak'.”

((From Encyclopedia Mythica: http://www.pantheon.org/articles/h/horus.html ))

Concerning Horus and Set:

By the Nineteenth dynasty, the previous brief enmity between Set and Horus, in which Horus had ripped off one of Set's testicles, was revitalized as a separate tale. According to Papyrus Chester-Beatty I, Set was considered to have been homosexual and is depicted as trying to prove his dominance by seducing Horus and then having intercourse with him. However, Horus places his hand between his thighs and catches Set's semen, then subsequently throws it in the river, so that he may not be said to have been inseminated by Set. Horus then deliberately spreads his own semen on some lettuce, which was Set's favorite food (the Egyptians thought that lettuce was phallic). After Set has eaten the lettuce, they go to the gods to try to settle the argument over the rule of Egypt. The gods first listen to Set's claim of dominance over Horus, and call his semen forth, but it answers from the river, invalidating his claim. Then, the gods listen to Horus' claim of having dominated Set, and call his semen forth, and it answers from inside Set.[1] In consequence, Horus is declared the ruler of Egypt.

Note:

With the exception of Horakhety (Ra-Heru-akhety), who is the joining of Ra and Horus as one deity, generally speaking I merge all aspects of the name Horus into one. Mostly speaking, Horus the elder is considered a ‘pre cursor’ to Horus the younger, based open readings I’ve done in the past form the book of the dead. Through those Stories, I hold that Horus was supposed to be born last, but instead took Set’s place and was born second, after Osiris. However, unlike the others, Horus did not go to the earth, but ruled in the Sky as a Falcon.

After his brother Osiris’ death, Horus ‘fell’ from the sky and was thus reborn as Horus the Younger. And from there he began his life long battle with Set that still rages on even today.

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