Thread by @ISnowNothin

Apocalypse’s First Horsemen are his original, ancient Egyptian companions—but which Horsemen is which?

Death, Famine, War and Pestilence.

Which is the Pharaonic death-masked, fire-faced, Hathor-crowned and Anubis-faced Mutant, respectively?
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Death seems the best title for 3 of the 4, with one’s death-mask/sarcophagus Pharaonic look, one with the Hathor-crowned visage (Hathor a Goddess who helped souls into the afterlife) and one with an Anubis-face (a God of death with dominion over Necropolis).
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The title of Pestilence is a later interpretation of the Biblical Horseman of Conquest.

Pestilence (sometimes Plague) described as showy and barbarous, was originally Conquest or Victory, and related to prophecy about conquering empires preceding the Rapture.
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Could the Pharaonic-masked Horseman be Pestilence, with the Egyptian Empire of the New Kingdom's reign representing the original version of that Biblical Horseman of Conquest/Victory?
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And as @Masterof_Magnet pointed out, an additional connection to support the idea of the Pharaonic Horseman in the role of Pestilence are the Biblical Ten Plagues beset on the Pharaoh by God through Moses, which included a Plague of Pestilence.
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@Masterof_Magnet Sekhmet, Egyptian War and Fire Goddess (and guide to the afterlife) is a Solar diety, with an Aten, or Solar Disk, atop her crown.
The fire-headed Mutant appears to be modeled on Sekmet as the Horsman of War.
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@Masterof_Magnet Draped in mummy-like wrappings, emaciated and skeletal, and accessorized with skulls and a glowing Hathor-Crown (a crown of horns holding an Aten/Solar Disk), I believe this Horseman is Famine.
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The Hathor Festival (called the Festival of Intoxication/Drunkenness), recalls an Egyptian myth when Hathor, meaning to destroy mankind, is tricked into drinking the Nile dry, Ra having spiked it with red beer so she'd think it was flowing with the blood of man
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This Hathor myth, of the red Nile, seemingly turned to blood, is paralleled again in the Ten Biblical Plagues, where the Nile is turned to blood and the subsequent famine from the lack of drinking/irrigable water.

Surely, the Hathor-Crowned Horseman is Famine.
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This one's easiest, the Horseman of Death.
There's death-related connections for all these characters' visual representations (in no small part from the nature of Egyptian deities/mythology).

But Anubis is famously Egypt's death God/guide to Necropolis/Duat.
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My laptop overheated and froze and I lost one of the drafts in the sequence about Sekhmet.
The War Goddess was also called Nesert, which meant literally, “the Flame,” further supporting the idea this might be Apocalypse’s first Horseman of War.
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My final thought for the moment is that we now have four new Egyptian Mutants in the mix, and that thousands of years ago, Apocalypse’s First Horsemen had gender parity.

There’s a reason Moira digs him so much--Apocalypse is feminist!
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Oh yeah, another thing I forgot to mention!

If my assessment of which Mutant holds which title is correct, then this image from #MarvelComics1000 shows the First Horsemen in the traditional Biblical Apocalyptic order of Pestilence, War, Famine and Death.
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