In the Bible, the third son of Adam and Eve. or Set Ancient Egyptian god and patron of the 11th nome, or province, of Upper Egypt. A trickster, he was a sky god, lord of the desert, and master of storms, disorder, and warfare. He was the brother of Osiris, whom he killed, and he was antagonistic to Horus, the child of Osiris's sister, Isis. Seth's cult largely died out in the 1st millennium BC, and he was gradually ousted from the Egyptian pantheon. He was later regarded as entirely evil and identified as a god of the Persians and other invaders of Egypt. Reduced Instruction Set Computing age set set theory
evil beast-headed Egyptian god with high square ears and a long snout; brother and murderer of Osiris
(Old Testament) third son of Adam and Eve; given by God in place of the murdered Abel
Evil brother and murderer of Osiris Defeated by Osiris' son, Horus, and exiled God of the desert and mountains
violent deity, murderer of his brother Osiris (who had been divinely installed to maintain order); shown in human form with the head of a strange doglike creature; associated with the desert, where the ordered world ends; nonetheless, Seth uses his powers to help protect the sun god during his nightly journey through the underworld
Chief adversary and eventual murderer of his brother Osiris, Seth represented the sterility of the desert, chaos, and destruction of the cosmic order in Egyptian mythology Seth maintained a fierce rivalry with the god Horus, son of Isis and Osiris, and was ultimately defeated a triumph of order over chaos In one of their battles, Horus tore away Seth's leg, which was represented by the Big Dipper, believed by Egyptians to be a source of immortality because it never left the night sky The power of this belief is evident in the mummification ritual of pressing a dipper-shaped object to the deceased's mouth and eyelids, restoring the spirit and reanimating the body for life in the afterworld
god of chaos and storms who murdered his brother, Osiris, and battled with his nephew, Horus; depicted with a head like an anteater and associated with many dangerous animals, including the hippopotamus Seth was not an evil god, but the necessary counterpart to Osiris