An Egyptian god associated with the sky and the figure of a hawk. In the novel Horus has gone crazy and stays permanently in his hawk form, because he is no longer remembered by the American people and does not have enough power to stay sane. Shadow meets Horus in the underworld, where Horus shows him how to return to the world of the living if Shadow so chooses.
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Horus Character Timeline in American Gods
The timeline below shows where the character Horus appears in American Gods. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
Chapter 8
...they do a lot of things for themselves now that Set has left them and Horus has gone wild. Mr. Jacquel adds that he still sees Horus sometimes, flying around in...
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Chapter 15
...that he saw Shadow in Cairo, and Shadow realizes that this dark-skinned man must be Horus, who Mr. Jacquel mentioned lived in Cairo as a hawk. Horus greets Shadow as a...
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Chapter 17
...a hawk flying above her. The hawk hops towards Easter, slowly transforming into a man. Horus awkwardly tells Easter that the man on the tree needs her, and that this man’s...
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Chapter 18
...of the tree and starts to loosen the ropes that hold Shadow to the tree. Horus (as a man) helps her, and they lay Shadow’s body down in the meadow. Horus,...
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...she rode here on, a bird like a condor the size of a black bear. Horus proudly says that he brought the thunderbird here. Shadow remembers that he once had a...
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