Horus
(myth) Egypt
Sun god
 In ancient Egyptian mythology, the hawkheaded sun god, son of Isis and Osiris, of whom the pharaos were thought to be the incarnation. Horus, the divine child, was in constant conflict with Set, but one story survives of oral intercourse between Set and Horus, and Set ultimately gives birth to Horus' child. Gay priests served Horus' mother, the goddess Isis, in ancient Egypt.
Originally the handsome god Horus was, according to legend, given Lower Egypt to rule while his brother (or sometimes it's said his uncle) Set ruled over Upper Egypt. After the reunification the two gods were frequently depicted as a couple with the symbol of unity between them. There is also a clear implication of a homosexual relationship and in one myth Horus makes Set pregnant (!). The product of this homosexual union, was their son, the god Thoth.
According to one myth Set attempts to disgrace Horus by being the active partner in sex with him but on his mother's advice Horus catches Set's semen in his hand and takes it to his mother who puts it on Set's favourite food - lettuce - which Set then unknowlingly eats. Set, thinking his semen is inside Horus calls the judges and askes them to determine who it is who has been impregnated. Much to his surprise when the judges call forth the semen it responds from his own stomach disgracing himself and exonerating Horus.
  Another legend has it that Set tried to rape Horus, and that for several days that two battled, transformed into hippopotami in the Nile. Set tore out Horus' eye but Horus ripped off Set's penis (ouch!). Eventually, however, after the intervention of Thoth, the son they both generated together, and the monkey-like god of wisdom, the two god's were reconciled... (Dad and... Pappy have to be in god terms, don't they?)
The legendary sexual struggle and eventual reconciliation between the two gods are viewed by historians as allegories for the fighting between Upper and Lower Egypt which finally led to the country unifying around 3000 BC.
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