# Horus, the Sun and 12 Hours: Exploring Egyptian Symbolism

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- Source language: English
- Duration: 1:08
- Published: 2026-11-11
- Canonical URL: https://www.translate.mom/transcript/N9g3SFqgqcbw/en/horus-the-sun-and-12-hours-exploring-egyptian-symbolism

## Transcript

[0:00](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/N9g3SFqgqcbw/en/horus-the-sun-and-12-hours-exploring-egyptian-symbolism) Horus ultimately took 12 steps. That's where the alcoholics have a 12-step program.

[0:05](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/N9g3SFqgqcbw/en/horus-the-sun-and-12-hours-exploring-egyptian-symbolism?t=5) So do you have a 12-step program? You go to school in the first grade and you end up in the 12th grade.

[0:11](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/N9g3SFqgqcbw/en/horus-the-sun-and-12-hours-exploring-egyptian-symbolism?t=11) It's a 12-step program.

[0:15](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/N9g3SFqgqcbw/en/horus-the-sun-and-12-hours-exploring-egyptian-symbolism?t=15) And consequently, Horus was the sun. The sun walked across the sky in 12 steps, called 12 Horuses.

[0:22](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/N9g3SFqgqcbw/en/horus-the-sun-and-12-hours-exploring-egyptian-symbolism?t=22) H-O-R-U-S, Horus. We today change it around and make it H-O-U-R-S.

[0:29](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/N9g3SFqgqcbw/en/horus-the-sun-and-12-hours-exploring-egyptian-symbolism?t=29) So it's 12 hours. It's actually 12 Horuses.

[0:32](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/N9g3SFqgqcbw/en/horus-the-sun-and-12-hours-exploring-egyptian-symbolism?t=32) And the sun brings light into the world.

[0:35](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/N9g3SFqgqcbw/en/horus-the-sun-and-12-hours-exploring-egyptian-symbolism?t=35) It walks across the sky in 12 steps and brings light into the world.

[0:39](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/N9g3SFqgqcbw/en/horus-the-sun-and-12-hours-exploring-egyptian-symbolism?t=39) And so consequently, and light in Latin was Lucius or Luke Skywalker.

[0:46](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/N9g3SFqgqcbw/en/horus-the-sun-and-12-hours-exploring-egyptian-symbolism?t=46) He does battle with Darth Vader, the Prince of Darkness.

[0:50](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/N9g3SFqgqcbw/en/horus-the-sun-and-12-hours-exploring-egyptian-symbolism?t=50) So all of this is very interesting, but it's making the point that the Eye of Horus is also known as the Eye of Ra.

[0:56](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/N9g3SFqgqcbw/en/horus-the-sun-and-12-hours-exploring-egyptian-symbolism?t=56) It represents the sun and expresses the divine omnipotence of God, the Creator.

[1:03](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/N9g3SFqgqcbw/en/horus-the-sun-and-12-hours-exploring-egyptian-symbolism?t=63) So in the ancient Egyptian, the sun represented the presence of God.