Statue of Harpocrates with cornucopia

Harpocrates ( Ἁρποκράτης) was the god of silence, secrets and confidentiality in the Hellenistic religion developed in Ptolemaic Alexandria (and also an embodiment of hope, according to Plutarch). Harpocrates was adapted by the Greeks from the Egyptian child god Horus. To the ancient Egiptians, Horus represented the newborn sun, rising each day at dawn. When the Greeks conquered Egypt under Alexander the Great, they transformed the Egyptian Horus into the Hellenistic god known as Harpocrates, a rendering from Egyptian Har-pa-khered or Heru-pa-khered Horus the Child.哈波克拉底（Harpocrates，希腊语原名Ἁρποκράτης）是托勒密王朝亚历山大城所发展的希腊化宗教中的沉默、秘密与保密之神；据普鲁塔克（Plutarch）记载，他同时也是希望的具象化身。哈波克拉底为希腊人改编自埃及孩童神祇荷鲁斯（Horus）而来。对古埃及人而言，荷鲁斯象征着每日黎明时分升起的新生太阳。当亚历山大大帝（Alexander the Great）率领希腊人征服埃及后，他们将埃及的荷鲁斯重塑为希腊化神祇哈波克拉底，其名称源自埃及语的Har-pa-khered或Heru-pa-khered，意为“孩童荷鲁斯”。