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Harpocrates
Sign in to savethumb|150px|One of two known Phoenician Harpocrates statues
Key facts
- Deity.type
- Egyptian
- Deity.name
- Harpocrates
- Deity.parents
- Isis and Osiris, Serapis or Banebdjedet and Hatmehit
- Deity.image
- Horus the child.svg
- Deity.hiero
- G5-Z1-p-X:r:d-Xrd
- Deity.cult_center
- Alexandria and Mendes
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thumb|150px|One of two known Phoenician Harpocrates statues
Harpocrates (, Phoenician: 𐤇𐤓𐤐𐤊𐤓𐤈, romanized: ḥrpkrṭ, harpokratēs) is the god of silence, secrets, confidentiality and a protector of reputations in the Hellenistic religion developed in Ptolemaic Alexandria (and also an embodiment of hope, according to Plutarch). Greeks adapted Harpocrates from the Egyptian child-god Horus, who represented the newborn sun, rising each day at dawn. The name "Harpocrates" originated as a Hellenization of the Egyptian Har-pa-khered or Heru-pa-khered, meaning "Horus the Child".