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
why would you post this without the artist’s awesome commentary
“ I am Set, the storm-clad Render of the veil The great pillar of stability and bestower of truth My name is that of Power which is brought amongst the halls of kings
I am the Red Lord The Great of Strength I stand awash in the blood of Osiris and cleansed in the essence of immortality He who calls upon Me in warfare shall never know defeat And his kingdom shall have no end
When the skies tremble, know that I tread upon the heavens When the desert winds howl, know that I sound My cry Let no wickedness come from thy mouth against Me Do not rise against me, for I am Set He who createth storms and thundering upon the horizon Sovereign of the heavens, wrought with fury!”
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Set, aka Seth, Sutekh, is a chaos-god of the Egyptians, also known as Set the Mighty, Set the Unconquered, Set the Great-of-Strength, and Set the Friggin’ Sweet. He is most famous for owning his brother Osiris by tricking him into lying down in a coffin which he locked, sealed with lead and tossed into the Nile, where Osiris drowned to death because he was a fucking moron. Set later found the corpse and just for lulz, tore it up into hundreds of pieces and scattered them around Egypt.
He is also the inventor of awesome shit like sandstorms and gay buttsex (Seriously, he boned his nephew Horus). All of the other gods got jealous of him, so they kicked him out of their super-awesome club and he became a scapegoat-type boogeyman for the Egyptians to blame their herpies on. Poor guy.
He is cheifly remembered by the Greeks as being an incarnation of the beast Typhon, and even though Typhon is pretty cool himself, he has nothing to do with Set because the Greeks were dumbasses who didn’t know shit about other people’s mythologies and just assumed everybody else worshiped Hermes because they were lazy theologians.
Damn, Set is awesome. I’m gonna go sacrifice a black sow and scream barbaric chants at the waning moon.
I said the god of taco’s name earlier (not Set, the other, harder to pronounce one that isn’t greco-roman oriented. that name) and I felt like this huge wave of energy in my direction like a giant hot tidal wave.
Yeah, Anubis and Set still have some issues they need to work out…
(btw, I subscribe to the myth that Osiris x Nephthys = Anubis; in Stick-Gods, it’s up in the air whether Set OR Anubis are aware of this tiny baby detail ;P)
More Egyptian gods. Set and Nephthys with baby Anubis.
Set (or Sutah in Egyptian) was the god of the desert, storms, darkness and chaos. He is probably best known for the murder of his brother Osiris, but he wasn’t always seen as an evil god. He was also regarded as Ra’s main hero, who fought Apep, the serpent of chaos, each night during Ra’s journey across the underworld.
Nephthys (Nebet-het or Nebt-het in Egyptian) was sometimes said to be the wife of Set. It was not a happy marriage. Nephthys wanted children, but Set was infertile, just like the desert. So according to one tradition she disguised herself as Isis and seduced Osiris. The result was Anubis (Anpu or Anapa in Egyptian).
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