Seth is evil
Every once in a while I like to read something totally different and this wkend in the bookstore something caught my eye. Bought it and started to read last nite. Following are some excerpts from the book. First will be a little explanation and then a couple excerpts.
Strange things are happening in this town. Everything a person thinks or feels seems to be multiplied. If a person is angry, hopeless, mad, lost, etc, in their lives, then they feel it even more so. Life in this town is starting a treacherous slide down a muudy slope.
Excerpt:
"And Madge Duffy, her face still swollen from last nights blows, put a kitchen knife to the neck of her sleeping husband and sliced his throat from ear to ear. Ripples.
Seth had begun"
In this excerpt, A mean-spirited deputy was beating a young man, the boy struck back. the deputy's gun went off, and the frightened boys buried the deputy's body in a shallow grave in the woods.
Excerpt:
"Deputy Haws peered into the darkness with new eyes. He thought of the boys who had killed and buried him...he remembered the vows he'd made as as he lay underground. Deputy Haws had promises to keep. Seth would show him what to do."
Wooeee! Please keep Seth away from here.
Strange things are happening in this town. Everything a person thinks or feels seems to be multiplied. If a person is angry, hopeless, mad, lost, etc, in their lives, then they feel it even more so. Life in this town is starting a treacherous slide down a muudy slope.
Excerpt:
"And Madge Duffy, her face still swollen from last nights blows, put a kitchen knife to the neck of her sleeping husband and sliced his throat from ear to ear. Ripples.
Seth had begun"
In this excerpt, A mean-spirited deputy was beating a young man, the boy struck back. the deputy's gun went off, and the frightened boys buried the deputy's body in a shallow grave in the woods.
Excerpt:
"Deputy Haws peered into the darkness with new eyes. He thought of the boys who had killed and buried him...he remembered the vows he'd made as as he lay underground. Deputy Haws had promises to keep. Seth would show him what to do."
Wooeee! Please keep Seth away from here.
Was the book about Egypt? 'cause Seth was an evil Ancient-Egyptian god.
Seth was god of war and it was pronounces S-e-f
I believe.
I believe.
Seth (Set, Suetekh)
Lord of Upper Egypt
Symbols: donkeys, fish, pigs, Seth-animal
Depiction: Depictions of Seth showed him as a mythical animal resembling a donkey or aardvark. He has big ears and red hair.
Mythology: Seth was the god of thunder and storms as well as the desert. His parents were Nut and Geb, his brother was Osiris, and his sisters were Isis and Nephthys. Though married to Nephthys, Seth never had any children, a fact that contributes to his association with the barren desert and infertility.
Upon his abdication of the throne, the older of his two sons, Osiris, succeeded Geb as king of Egypt. Once Osiris had established civilization in Egypt, he traveled to distant lands to teach others what he had taught the Egyptians. He left Isis to rule in his absence but Seth’s actions troubled her. While Osiris was away, Seth plotted to usurp the throne and take Isis as his wife. Isis’ fears were realized when, in the twenty-eighth year of Osiris’ reign, on the 17th day of Hathor (late September or November), Seth and 72 conspirators murdered Osiris. Seth and his co-conspirators threw the coffin containing Osiris’ body into the Nile. Isis recovered Osiris’ body only to have Seth tear it into 14 pieces, which he scattered all over Egypt. Nonetheless, Isis, with help from Nephthys, recovered every piece of Osiris’ body except his rod, which was eaten by the Nile fish. Using her magical powers, Isis reassembled Osiris and gave him life just long enough to conceive Horus, the future king of Egypt. Seth disputed Horus’ succession to the Egyptian throne and attempted to murder Horus but failed because Isis protected Horus by keeping him on a floating island. Collectively, the gods decided to punish Seth for committing fratricide by sending him into exile in the desert. Re did not support the decision of the gods and thought Horus too young to hold the kingship. To resolve the stalemate, Isis magically transformed herself into a beautiful woman and with tears streaming down her face told a story to the gods. The story told of an evil man who killed her husband and who was trying to steal her family flocks. Angered by the injustice of which Isis spoke, Seth proclaimed that the evil man should be destroyed and that the woman’s son should inherit the family flocks. With this judgment, Seth lost the throne of Egypt. After an 80 year dispute, the gods agreed that Horus, Osiris’ son, should have the throne and that Seth should be given the Semitic goddesses Astarte and Asat.
Never considered wholly evil, Seth protected the barge of Re when Re fought each night with Apep. Before it was conquered by Upper Egypt, Lower Egypt considered Seth their benefactor. When the two lands united, Seth and Horus were depicted together as the state deities. During the 19th Dynasty, pharaohs even took Seth’s name often in the form of Seti.
Ah yes, Egyptian mythology. I don't know too much about except that Anubis is the god of death. Oh, and didn't Egypt become a monotheistic society when Amon and Re were combined? I think that was right before Tutankhamon and it didn't last very long at all.
Egypt does indeed have one of the cooler mythologies.
not as cool as the cthulhu mythos!
EDIT: Also cool, Cainite mythos.
EDIT: Also cool, Cainite mythos.
