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A final difference in Plutarch's account is Horus ' birth.

The form of Horus that avenges his father has been conceived and born before Osiris ' death.

It is a premature and weak second child, Harpocrates, who is born from Osiris ' posthumous union with Isis.

Here, two of the separate forms of Horus that exist in Egyptian tradition have been given distinct positions within Plutarch's version of the myth.