page_title: Set (deity)
section_title: Family
hierarchical_section_title: Set (deity) / Family
context_page_description: Set or Seth is a god of deserts, storms, disorder, violence, and foreigners in ancient Egyptian religion. In Ancient Greek, the god's name is given as Sēth. Set had a positive role where he accompanies Ra on his solar boat to repel Apep, the serpent of Chaos. Set had a vital role as a reconciled combatant. He was lord of the red land, where he was the balance to Horus' role as lord of the black land.
  In the Osiris myth, the most important Egyptian myth, Set is portrayed as the usurper who killed and mutilated his own brother Osiris. Osiris's wife Isis reassembled his corpse and resurrected her dead husband long enough to conceive his son and heir Horus. Horus sought revenge upon Set and the myths describe their conflicts.
  In ancient Egyptian astronomy, Set was commonly associated with the planet Mercury.
context_section_description: Set is the son of Geb, the Earth, and Nut, the Sky; his siblings are Osiris, Isis, and Nephthys. He married Nephthys and fathered Anubis and in some accounts he had relationships with the foreign goddesses Anat and Astarte.
caption: Set and Nephthys, 1279-1213 BC, stone, Louvre
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