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Contending of Horus and Seth

The Egyptian succession contest between Horus and Seth after Osiris. Not Horus or Seth as beings alone, and not every throne quarrel.

Egyptian religion

Contending of Horus and Seth appears in Egyptian religion.
The Book of the Dead’s funerary court memory keeps the contending of Horus and Seth as the quarrel behind rightful inheritance and justified speech — named contest episode in Egyptian myth-story, not a Hellenic Typhon dump alone.
from Raymond O. Faulkner (translation) · Book of the Dead, New Kingdom spells; Faulkner trans. 1972
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Contending of Horus and Seth is historically related to Horus.
The contending names Horus as the rightful son who fights Seth for inheritance — a named episode→Horus historical relation in funerary court memory, not a Herodotus/Plutarch Apollo–Horus interpretatio restatement.
from Raymond O. Faulkner (translation) · Book of the Dead, New Kingdom spells; Faulkner trans. 1972
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Contending of Horus and Seth is historically related to Set.
The contending names Seth as the adversary brother who wounds and contests Horus — a named episode→Set historical relation in funerary memory, not a Typhon–Set interpretatio restatement from Herodotus or Plutarch.
from Raymond O. Faulkner (translation) · Book of the Dead, New Kingdom spells; Faulkner trans. 1972
historically related to · sourced · culturally specific