Harpocrates

thumb|150px|One of two known Phoenician Harpocrates statues

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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".