This paper examines one of the epithets throughout the texts of Edfu where a
dominating Horus of Behdety interacts with the forces of chaos as a lion by
trampling, retreating, smiting and devouring. The textual sources contain
lexical expressions of this epithet and provide the visual metaphors as
dramatic scenes of the god's domination. Also they show Horus as the
upholder of the legitimacy of the kingship and the defeater lion over any
transgressors. Furthermore he played a beneficent role toward the two lands
of Egypt, his sacred mound, his chapel, his divine character and Osiris with
Isis.