Harpocrates

God-child of the Greek mythology
Harpocrates was the god of silence, secrets and confidentiality in the Hellenistic religion developed in Ptolemaic Alexandria. Harpocrates was adapted by the Greeks from the Egyptian child god Horus, who represented the newborn Sun, rising each day at dawn. Harpocrates’s name was a Hellenization of the Egyptian Har-pa-khered or Heru-pa-khered, meaning “Horus the Child”. Horus is represented as a naked boy with his finger to his mouth, a realisation of the hieroglyph for “child”. Misunderstanding this gesture, the later Greeks and Roman poets made Harpocrates the god of silence and secrecy. Wikipedia

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