Every Powerful Weapon in Egyptian Mythology Explained

Every Powerful Weapon in Egyptian Mythology Explained The khopesh is one of the most iconic weapons ever to appear in Egyptian art, and long before it became the standard sidearm of pharaohs and soldiers, the gods were already using it. Horus, the sky god and divine king, is depicted wielding a gleaming curved sickle-sword in his eternal conflict against Set, the god of chaos and storms. The khopesh appears in Egyptian records as early as the Middle Kingdom, around 2000 BCE, and the divine version was understood as the cosmic original from which every mortal blade descended. When a pharaoh carried a khopesh into battle, he wasn't just armed, he was holding a copy of something the gods had used first.