The role of Seth in the Egyptian creeds

The ancient myth describes Seth to be the chaotic force and the force of darkness which Ra had to confront in order to create the cosmos and the livings. Seth appears to be a pure evil force that causes disasters, illness, draughts and catastrophes. Also he appears mainly in a figure of an anthropomorphically being that has an unknown animal face, that animal resembles an ant-eater!? . The development of the Hieroglyphs across all periods of Egyptian history had added a lot more to the characteristics of Seth so it gained extra meanings and functions such as the verb set or seth which means cut ,tear , dismember and destroy and some nouns such as death, extinction, extermination, vanish and so on. In the ancient creeds, Seth was avoided, his name wouldn't be mentioned, and none of the temples would be dedicated to him and this after him to commit the unforgivable sin of murdering his brother Osiris. The new-kingdom had come some critical changes towards Seth as some of its kings had names that bear the character or the figure of Seth in it, such as in the name of king Seti I or Seti II which mean the one belongs to Set. Seth had generally to transform into different figures of animals or birds such as hippos, snakes, turtles, bats or enemies. The change can refer to having Seth to enjoy the strength and the invincibility in wars, also seeing some kings in carvings or sculpture standing in between the two contradicting forces, Horus and Seth, which represents the will of the king to establish a balance or the yen and yang before china even to realize it. Copyrig © 2006