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Origin of the name SETI.
Etymology of the
name SETI.
Meaning of the baby name SETI.
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SETI. I.
Or Seti Menepthah, surnamed Merenpthah, "The Living
like Set." A famous king of the XIXth dynasty, the adopted son
or son-in-law and the successor of Rameses I. He seems to have been
a soldier of fortune, of Hykshos extraction, who by marriage with the
heiress to the crown established himself on the throne. On his
accession he reintroduced the worship of Sutekh, which was still further
strengthened by his son Rameses II., who founded a temple to that deity at
Tanis. Seti was a great warrior, and in the first year of his reign
drove back the Shashu, who had attacked the city of Zal, near Heliopolis.
Having thrust the Arabs into the desert, he in the next year crossed over
to Palestine, where all the Canaanitish princes paid him tribute and
homage. Gathering his army together, he then entered the valley of
the Orontes, where he defeated the Khitae, and captured their capital city
Kadesh, and made peace with Mautnur, the king of the Khitae, whom as a
tributary he restored to his dominions. After this the king of Egypt
turned back to conquer the Rotennu, on this side the Euphrates, they
having discontinued the tribute imposed on them by the Thothmes kings of
the XVIIIth dynasty. The nations of the Arameans were easily
subdued, but those beyond the Euphrates gave more trouble to the Egyptian
conqueror; some great battles, however, brought about the complete
subjection of Mesopotamia, Assyria, and Chaldea. Seti admitted to an
interview the chiefs of Babylon, Nineveh, and Singar, and a last campaign
in the mountains of Armenia re-established the supremacy of Pharaoh in
that country also. On returning to Egypt, Seti sent a series of
slave-hunting expeditions into Ethiopia, and completely conquered the more
barbarous Negroid races to the South of Egypt. On the North-west
frontier the victorious monarch then repulsed the incursions of the
Libyans, and in turn successfully invaded their kingdom. Finally, he
reconstructed the Egyptian fleet on the Red Sea, and re-asserted the power
of the Pharaohs on the shores of Arabia Felix. The Mediterranean
conquests of Thothmes III., Seti was, however, unable to regain, owing to
the rapid growth of the Pelasgic and Phoenician colonies, which had
settled themselves in all the islands of the inland sea. It was not
only as a warrior that Seti was a great monarch: in his internal policy he
was also distinguished. He commenced the large canal from the Nile
to the Red Sea, a work which was completed by his son Rameses II., who has
usurped the credit of it. He caused an artesian well to be sunk at
the mines of Kuban, and he built several important fortresses along the
frontiers of his kingdom. The palace at Kurnah was founded by Seti
as a country residence, and the stupendous temples of Karnak and of Osiris
at Abydos were designed and begun by him. His tomb in the Valley of
the Kings at the Biban el Moluk is one of the grandest and deepest in
existence, extending as it does for upwards of three hundred yards into
the solid rock, and having many splendidly adorned chambers leading from
it, in one of which nearly 1000 votive Shabti figures of the
monarch were discovered when the tomb was opened by Belzoni, its
discoverer, on the 19th October, 1817. His alabaster sarcophagus,
now in the Soane Museum, is unique for beauty of workmanship, the value of
its material, and the extent of the text, chiefly selections from the
Ritual of the Dead, which is incised upon it. Most of the national
works of Seti were, however, finished by Rameses II., who, by inserting
his own name on the sculptures, has obtained the credit of them all.
Seti was one of the several great kings of the XIXth dynasty out of whom
the Greek authors manufactured the fabulous Sesostris. He was
probably, also, the Osymandyas of history, and according to the lists of
Manetho reigned for fifty years. His name is written
Osirei-Menepthah by Champollion, Oimenepthah by Sharpe, Asi-menepthah by
some Egyptologists, and Psammis and Sethos by others. In his
cartouches the first letters of his name, which began with the figure of
the god Set, have been carefully chiselled out; and in the Flaminian
Obelisk at Rome, which was originally a work of his reign also, the figure
of the god Ra inserted instead. This mutilation of the names of Set
and Amen took place several times in the history of Egypt. See Rameses
II. and Amenhotep
IV.
Seti II. Surnamed Menepthah.
The son of Menepthah I. and his queen Hesi-nefer-et. He had to
contend for some years with the usurper Sipthah or Merenpthah II., with
whom for a while he shared the kingdom under the title of "Viceroy of
the Southern Kingdom." He reigned for many years, but
particulars of his government are wanting, although it appears to have
been a prosperous one. He left no issue, and with him ended the
XIXth dynasty, after it had lasted 174 years. After his death his
name was effaced from the monuments, as was also that of his predecessors
Set I. and Rameses I., on account of the figure of the god Set occurring
in them, for which the figure of the god Osiris was substituted, the
adoration of Set being again hateful to the Egyptians. See also Set
and Apepi.
Seti, a prince of Kush during the reign of the
usurper Sipthah, of the XIXth dynasty.
Seti, a son of Rameses II. of the XIXth dynasty.
(An Archaic Dictionary, Cooper, 1876).
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