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The Neter/God Set

One day the child (Horus) became a man and that was the day of terror. The battle between gods was waged once in heaven and again and again on earth. When Horus set himself against his uncle, thunder rolled and arrows flashed fire. Beneath the sun’s wasting heat, rain fell and dried before reaching the ground. Then the earth rose up like an animal and shook itself. Hot winds blew and stirred the sand into black and red clouds . The sun was blotted from the sky. The two gods seized each other. Blind with rage and stumbling, they fought with magic, with words , with clubs and knives . They fell upon each other with their hands. They wrestled about the earth in the shapes of bears, in the shapes of snakes, in the forms of men and wolves and wild beasts. Swords of iron battered shields of gold. Set buggered the warrior and Horus cut off his balls. They threw vomit and shit in each other’s faces.

Normandi Ellis-Awakening Osiris: A New Translation of the Egyptian Book of the Dead. More correctly translated as The Book of Coming into the Light

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