🐍 God of chaos 👶 Adam and Eve's son

Seth

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An ancient Egyptian god of chaos who killed his brother Osiris

proper noun
/sɛθ/

Literature

: Seth

The tales often depict Seth as a chaotic force, embodying disorder in the cosmos.
Horus and Seth
Seth, god
Seth (evil)

The Egyptians had already began even prior to the rise of Christianity to associate Yahweh with the God Seth, the their sort of demonic chaos foreigner God.

Examples

In ancient Egyptian mythology, Seth was known for his fierce rivalry with his brother Osiris.
An irritating, obstructive, and negative power, Seth/Evil is an archetypal figure like other Satanic powers in world religions.

Academic text (1996)
This time, in order to make certain that he had rid himself of his enemy, Seth cut him into fourteen pieces, which he then scattered throughout Egypt.

Academic text (1996)
But Seth (god of evil, darkness, drought, perversity), brother of both Isis and her husband, became envious of Osiris's power and success as monarch and moreover fell passionately in love with Isis.

Academic text (1996)
As a god of storms and deserts, Seth was both feared and revered by the people of Egypt.

Synonyms

Set

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Literature

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An Egyptian god with a strange animal head who killed his brother Osiris

is the same name but uses the longer spelling variant with final h

Surface Forms

Seth main

Etymology

Seth comes from ancient Egyptian, often written Set or Sutekh, and is linked to 'storms' and 'chaos'. Because he was the violent god who betrayed and killed Osiris, the name reminds us of disorder and power.