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The eternal battle of Set and Horus

In ancient Egypt Set was the immensely powerful god of the desert. He was depicted as a mysterious and unknown creature. He had a curved snout, forked tail and canine body, or sometimes was represented as a human with the ‘Set animal’ for a head. It can also be said that Set had a resemblance of a jackal or a greyhound…

As the son of the earth and sky, Set was hailed as ‘His Majesty’ by the ancient Egyptians. Regarded as a ferocious warrior, Set can be correlated to the figure of Mars in Roman forms or more precisely Ares in ancient Greek mythology. Set was the brother of Osiris and Isis who were husband and wife. Osiris was the bringer of knowledge and civilization and so was gleefully married to his sister Isis – a metaphor of the importance of family and community ancient Egyptians cherished as the building blocks of their civilization. Because of his envious character, Set killed his beloved brother Osiris by trickery: he simply couldn’t take his brother’s power and popularity. Set deceived Osiris by luring him into a coffin, which he sealed with lead. Set then set the coffin adrift in the river Nile. The coffin washed up in the land of Byblos (modern day Lebanon) and a great tree grew around it which the king of Byblos Melquart felled and put in his house. The tree would give off a wonderful fragrance fancied by the king and queen and so it became innermost to their house.

Isis could not rest until she found her husband’s body – she needed to conduct a proper burial. Isis tracked down Osiris’ coffin to Byblos and brought it back to Egypt. When hearing of this Set became so irate he hacked Osiris’ body into pieces and scattered them across the Egyptian lands. But Isis found the pieces, made wax replicas of them to be worshiped in a temple, preserved Osiris’ body with linen bandages and brought life back into him. As he rose from the dead he would rule as god of the underworld.

It is said that Isis copulated with Osiris at the moment of resurrection but some stories suggest that she used a piece of his body or essence and so Horus came to being.

When Horus was born he naturally became the equal opposite and enemy of Set for all eternity. Horus was depicted as man with a falcon’s head, one soaring closest to Ra’s kingdom. He represented the ‘coming of the light,’ the symbol of goodness, fertility and ‘the daybreak’ while the direct opposite of these traits would be burdened by his murderous uncle Seth who, metaphorically speaking, would send Horus to the underworld at the instant of dawn. When dusk came, Horus would defeat his evil adversary and so the sunrise would bring a new day filled with light and the extension of the mighty Egyptian god Ra.

The story of Horus and Set is perhaps one of the first omnipresent mythological dualities ever known to modern man.

Stay tuned for more interesting tales from the land of River Nile!