Myths, Religions & Legends Power Ranking TOP100
I wrote a book ranking the most powerful gods, monsters, and heroes from world mythology, religion, and legend in order of strength! Of course, the rankings reflect a great deal of my own subjective judgment, but the reasoning behind each placement is grounded in the lore and episodes of each mythology, so I think itβs a book that will feel reasonably convincing.
This time Iβd like to introduce some of the characters featured in the bookβs ranking. Of course, many more characters appear in the ranking beyond those introduced here, so I think anyone interested in mythology, religion, and legend will enjoy it!
Rank 60: Horus (Egyptian Mythology)
Overview
Horus is one of the most important gods in Egyptian mythology, generally worshipped as the βgod of the sky.β He is depicted as a human figure with the head of a falcon, and after the death of Osiris β who had inherited the throne of Egypt from Ra β Horus inherited it in turn.
In the process of claiming the throne, he clashed fiercely with Set. He was killed by Set once, but was revived with the help of Thoth and others, and in the subsequent battles suffered injuries including the loss of his left eye β enduring a long and brutal struggle β before finally defeating Set and officially inheriting the throne of Egypt.
Horus holds both the sun and the moon in his eyes, and as the sky god possesses the power to govern the movement of the sun and moon.
It should be noted that the pharaoh (the king of Egypt) was considered an incarnation of Horus, and when one ruler succeeded another, it was believed that Horus dwelled in the body of the next king β so people believed that Egypt was perpetually governed by the god Horus himself.
Horus is also said to be a son of Ra, which is why the pharaoh was often called the βSon of Ra.β
Reason for This Ranking
Ranking Horus was also a difficult decision β if he had defeated Set in a straightforward contest of strength, it would naturally be appropriate to place him above Set. But in the mythological episodes, the battle is not fundamentally one of brute force: they competed in things like diving underwater while transformed into hippopotamuses, and Horus agreed to a contest of stone boats only to secretly prepare a wooden boat and sink Setβs vessel through a kind of trick β so it is honestly questionable whether Horus is truly stronger than Set in raw power.
Moreover, Horus was killed by Set once and lost his eye during battle, and the overall impression is that he was being pushed in straightforward combat β which is why I placed him at this position in the ranking.
