Naillosotarrain
February 26th, 2001, 09:32 PM
Here's a topic starter for you:
Sutekh, Seth, Set; quite possibly one of mythologies most if no the most misinterpreted deities of all time. Some cosmogonies have him as a god of corruption and evil who attacks Re's sun barge nightly as the serpent known as Apep, only to be defeated in the on going battle of good vs evil and good always wins. Other cosmogonies have him as a god of war who rides on Re's sun barge and is the one who slays Apep on a nightly basis with a spear thrust to the head. And just about all you'll ever find on him is about the infamous battle between him, his brother Osiris, and his nephew Horus. Even though he was banned from Egypt by a judgement of the gods, that judgement came only after Nephthys took the guise of a mortal female in distress (the most infamous kind of bait for a warrior), and asked what he would do to someone if they were to essentially do the same ill actions as he had (phrasing it a little differently of course), and he replied that he would have them banished from the land; and in that statement, which overheard by the company of the gods, Set banned himself from the land with his own words; to either the underworld, or to ride as Re's champion depending on the cosmogony you're reading.
Not entirely evil, wouldn't you say? There is some good inside him.
Another interesting fact about him is this:
Just as the Greeks adopted Serapis as their Zeus; the so-called "Church" adopted Set as the modern day Prince of Darkness.
And the modern day Satanic worshippers tend to call their churches Temples of Set, so as to escape religious prosecution; but at the same time giving us Pagans a bad name.
Sutekh, Seth, Set; quite possibly one of mythologies most if no the most misinterpreted deities of all time. Some cosmogonies have him as a god of corruption and evil who attacks Re's sun barge nightly as the serpent known as Apep, only to be defeated in the on going battle of good vs evil and good always wins. Other cosmogonies have him as a god of war who rides on Re's sun barge and is the one who slays Apep on a nightly basis with a spear thrust to the head. And just about all you'll ever find on him is about the infamous battle between him, his brother Osiris, and his nephew Horus. Even though he was banned from Egypt by a judgement of the gods, that judgement came only after Nephthys took the guise of a mortal female in distress (the most infamous kind of bait for a warrior), and asked what he would do to someone if they were to essentially do the same ill actions as he had (phrasing it a little differently of course), and he replied that he would have them banished from the land; and in that statement, which overheard by the company of the gods, Set banned himself from the land with his own words; to either the underworld, or to ride as Re's champion depending on the cosmogony you're reading.
Not entirely evil, wouldn't you say? There is some good inside him.
Another interesting fact about him is this:
Just as the Greeks adopted Serapis as their Zeus; the so-called "Church" adopted Set as the modern day Prince of Darkness.
And the modern day Satanic worshippers tend to call their churches Temples of Set, so as to escape religious prosecution; but at the same time giving us Pagans a bad name.