Set

"Set (Egyptological: Sutekh or: Seth) is a god of deserts, storms, disorder, violence, and foreigners in ancient Egyptian religion . . .Set had a positive role where he accompanies Ra on his barque to repel Apep (Apophis), the serpent of Chaos. Set had a vital role as a reconciled combatant. He was lord of the Red Land (desert), where he was the balance to Horus' role as lord of the Black Land (fertile land). In the Osiris myth, the most important Egyptian myth, Set is portrayed as the usurper who murdered and mutilated his own brother, Osiris. Osiris's sister-wife, Isis, reassembled his corpse and resurrected her dead brother-husband with the help of the goddess Nephthys. The resurrection lasted long enough to conceive his son and heir, Horus. Horus sought revenge upon Set, and many of the ancient Egyptian myths describe their conflicts." [Set (deity), Wikipedia]

The Esoteric Set

The Eyes of the Mummy narrator viewed the myths of gods like Set as being allegories of hidden truths [RB Mummy]. According to Ludvig Prinn's Saracenic Rituals, human imagination alone did not create the gigantic serpent Set [RB Sebek].

After the Flood, new religions disguised the Great Old Ones as demons like Set [RB Strange]. Phillips Keith identified Set as a synonym for Satan, the archetype of evil [RB Hell(online text)].

According to the Daemonolorum, there was a sect of Egypt which believed that their gods, such as Set, could assume human form [RB Brood].

After the cult of the Faceless One (Nyarlathotep) was destroyed, his attributes were assigned to milder deities such as Set [RB Faceless].

Remnants of Set

Captain Cartaret felt that the ghosts of old gods like Set still lurked in the Egyptian desert. [RB Fane]

Set is one of the sullen guardians who frown down in the purple pylons before the pyramids. [RB Opener]

According to a papyrus found by Sir Ronald Barton in the excavation of the Ninth Pyramid, a certain ritual performed at the tomb of the Master shall cause bats to descend and then carry their glad tidings of blood to Father Set in the Underworld. In the tomb of the Master, a silver symbol on a door includes the heads of seven principal Egyptian gods, including Set. [RB Opener]

In New Orleans at Mardi Gras, there was a man dressed as an Egyptian priest, with the sceptered diadem of Set, the Serpent. [RB Sebek]

The Probilski Foundation had a statue of Set, Lord of Evil. [RB Strange]

See also: Typhon.

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