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Origin of the name SET.
Etymology of the
name SET.
Meaning of the baby name SET.
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SET. Or
Sutekh. An ass-headed
deity, the national god of the Semitic Hykshos, who on their invasion of
Egypt in the interval between the XIIIth and XVIIIth dynasties, forced his
sole worship upon the Egyptians. Set was already one of the cosmical
deities of the country; but after the expulsion of the Hykshos his worship
was annulled, his statues defaced, and his name everywhere erased.
He was represented as an ass-headed man, holding the usual crux ansata or
staff of life and the cucufa staff of divine power. The
Egyptians were accustomed to regard Set as a personification of the evil
principle. "The worship of this god passed through two
historical phases. At one time he was held in honour and accounted
as one of the greater gods of Abydos. He appears to have had a
position analogous to that of the Theban deity Mentu, in which he was the
adversary of the serpent Apophis, the symbol of wickedness and
darkness. Some time later on, in consequence of political changes,
the worship of Set was abolished, and his statues destroyed. It is
difficult to state at what period Set was introduced into the Osirian
mythos as a personification of evil, and thus became identified with
Typhon as the murderer of Osiris. The contests of Horus, the avenger
of his father Osiris, are related at considerable detail in the
inscriptions of the temple of Edfu which have been published by M. Ed.
Naville in Textes relatifs au Mythe d'Horus, 1870. The
treatise (by Plutarch) De Iside et Osiride makes Nephthys the
companion of Set, and she is represented united with him in a group in the
Museum of the Louvre, in the Hall of the Gods. The animal symbolical
of Set was a carnivorous quadruped, at one time confounded with the
ass-god of Josephus and Apion, having a long curved snout and upright
square topped ears, which characters are often exaggerated to distinguish
him from the jackal of Anubis." (Pierret.) After the second
restoration of the old mythology in the period of the XIXth dynasty, Set
was identified with the Hykshos Sutekh, who was properly an Asiatic
divinity, and whose worship was maintained even by Seti I. and Rameses
II. Both gods, however, were treated as impious, and their worship
as heretical, and it is at the present time impossible to distinguish
exactly between them, owing to the complete destruction by the Egyptians
of all those parts of the monuments whereon their names occur.
(An Archaic Dictionary, Cooper, 1876).
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