Hor, Set, or Thoth conducts Pharaoh into the presence of his father Amen Ra, or performs the functions elsewhere assigned to the prince or the priest.

They help him to overthrow the victim or to snare birds for the sacrifice; and in order to wash away his impurities, they pour upon his head the waters of youth and life.

The position and functions of these co-operating gods were strictly defined in the theology.

The sun, travelling from east to west, divided the universe into two worlds, the world of the north and the world of the south.

The temple, like the universe, was double, and an imaginary line passing through the axis of the sanctuary divided it into two temples--the temple of the south on the right hand, and the temple of the north on the left.
The gods and their various manifestations were divided between these two temples, according as they belonged to the northern or southern hemisphere.
This fiction of duality was carried yet further.