Seth - Set

This video is just explaining Seth. I am joining this on to my deity series and so here is some extra infor for his worship:

Epithet: "Lord of the Red Land"
Colours: Red
Offerings: Bloodstone, garnet, dark rum, coffee, patchouli.
Prayers: Bravery, revenge, strength.

**** " There is no "god of evil". Set governs chaos, conflict, (male) sexuality, the desert, storms, and becoming strong through overcoming difficulties. His role in the cosmos is to destroy that which needs to be broken down, to test people and gods alike so that they can become strong, and to turn chaos against chaos and destroy that would go beyond mere destruction to uncreating.

Set's got a bad rap, really. That whole killing-his-older-brother thing causes him inordinate amounts of bad press -- but had Asar not died and taken up kingship of the underworld, there would be no afterlife, and souls when they left life would simply cease to be, as they would have nowhere to persist. " ***
Found at:- http://www.ecauldron.net/reconegyptfaq.php

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[dingutscal]

seth (egypt. "setesh") was very popular during early dynasties, king peribsen even bestowed his name to seth and the god was held in highest regards until the first intermediate period, when the egyptian state administration collapsed. since seth was seen as the "he-who-keeps-away-the-foreign­ers", it was believed that it was his fault that foreign kings took control over egypt during the first intermediate period. this aspect is often ignored today when talking about the oh-so-evil seth... ;-)

[Pagyptsian]

@dingutscal Brilliant description!

[Ranoferhotep]

As always You give knowledge to the people. Seth wasn't a God of Evil. His opponent, Aapep (Apophis)...that's the One we should fear. By the way, today I celebrated in ancient way Egyptian New Year. 2011-2012 Is the year of Seth

[Pagyptsian]

@Ranoferhotep Thank you :) I celebrate new year in a couple of weeks time myself. I didn not know it was his year though! :) x

[TheEngarPresence]

It is important to note that the Set slaying of Osiris story is later to Set himself, he was not the God of Chaos but of oposition, of darkness (night and the night creatures in oposition to the sun and it's creatures), of desert (in oposition to the rivers and fertility), of war, of that we couldn't see in the dark, and everything that represented a shock or motion in what should have been a calm life.

This is not chaos against order, is movement and change against stasis and stability.

[TheEngarPresence]

@UNSUNGBAND Actually why it was demonized is in full not well understood because there were many places in Egypt that still had Set in high esteem, let's remember that the Egyptian pantheon was not One for Egypt. But wait, I don't think there was any Neter that was Good or Bad, their qualities don't make them either way, Set still was the desert, storm and motion Neter, and in my opinion that is a GOOD thing.

[dingutscal]

@Pagyptsian thx^^ but there is more: Despite Seth was worshipped under ambivalent circumstances -you could actually compare the way of worshipping with some kind of "love-hate relationship"- lots of later kings always seeked adjacency to that deity. The kings wished to benefit from Seth´s bellicious and intimidating abilities and some kings also bestowed their names to Seth: Sutech, Seti I., Seti II. and Sethnakhte are well known examples. ;-)

[StuartMason09]

Excellent video. I don't think I've ever quite seen the nuanced distinction between chaos and evil explained so well in such a quick space. It's unfortunate that even the Egyptians lost this distinction over time as Set was re-envisioned as the almost purely evil god of foreigners, in particular the Semites. There are some incredible ironies and contradictions created by that change in depcition for Set.

[sethsky4]

the thing i love about seth is we have the same names

[jin54363]

@Ranoferhotep

how do you know that 2011-2012 is Seth year?

[jin54363]

@TheEngarPresence

good view

[Pagyptsian]

@omnipresent13 Set is a portion of physics. I see the Gods as nature and so nature is physics. Set is a personification of this natural event.

[omnipresent13]

@Pagyptsian

so seth causes storms? not physics?