deity
Set
The named Egyptian god of desert, storm, and contested kingship. Not Satan as a later Abrahamic adversary under one id, and not desert as bare place.
Also known as Seth
Egyptian religion
Set appears in Egyptian religion.
Herodotus’s Egyptian logos treats the god the Greeks call Typhon among Egyptian divine enmity speech; this row attests Set in Egyptian religion without merging him into Typhon here. A named set in that traveler’s speech, not typhon-set as the separate historically_related_to claim.
from Herodotus · Histories, c. 440s BCE
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Typhon is historically related to Set.
Herodotus names the Egyptian opponent-god as Typhon in Greek speech — a naming/interpretatio link to Set, not a claim that the Greek monster Typhon and Set are one being. A named historically_related_to meeting, not an identity flatten.
from Herodotus · Histories, c. 440s BCE
historically related to · sourced · documented
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
sources
- Histories · Herodotus
Herodotus, Histories.
- Book of the Dead · Raymond O. Faulkner (translation)
Raymond O. Faulkner, The Ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead.