2022年11月29日 · A wily trickster, Set was the Egyptian god of confusion and disorder. Though he generally played an antagonistic role in Egyptian mythology , Set still played a key role in the Egyptian cosmos. He would ultimately ally himself with Osiris , riding on the front of the solar barque and defending it from Apophis—an elemental chaos beast.

2022年11月29日 · This time, Set attempted to steal his brother’s body in the form of a great cat. The plan failed, and Anubis caught him once more; the jackal-headed god punished Set by branding him with hot irons. This myth thus explained how leopards became spotted. Ever persistent, Set continued trying to steal Osiris’s body back.

2022年11月29日 · Nephthys was the youngest child of the sky goddess Nut and earth god Geb. Unlike her brothers and sister, she was a relatively minor deity in the Egyptian pantheon . Though Nephthys was married to Set , her relationship with him was distant at best.

2022年11月29日 · Osiris’s younger brother Set was jealous of his brother’s achievements, and sought to assassinate him. Set gathered 72 conspirators—including the queen of Ethiopia—and began to plot his brother’s demise. Working in secret, Set took precise measurements of Osiris’s body and devised an incredibly ornate box to match them.

2022年11月29日 · Thoth was the vitally important Egyptian god of the moon, medicine, science, wisdom, and magic. Depicted with the head of an ibis, he invented writing, was the divine healer, and acted as advisor to the rest of the pantheon.

2022年12月8日 · Set then sealed the box with molten lead and cast it into the Nile. Isis’s Search for Osiris. Isis, who was in a distant town at the time of the murder, instantly knew of her husband’s death. Without moving from where she stood, she cut off a lock of her hair and donned mourning robes. Isis then set out in search of her husband’s body.

2022年11月29日 · Egyptian gods and goddesses were incarnations of both natural phenomena, such as the sun, and social phenomena, like knowledge. Egypt itself was ruled by a pharaoh who claimed to be the gods’ representative on earth, and who acted as …

2022年11月29日 · A sun and sky god in equal measure, he was typically represented by a falcon and embodied the principles of Egyptian kingship. Falcon-headed Horus once held a spear above an antelope at the base of this statuette (664–525 BCE). The antelope is thought to represent Set, whom Horus defeated to become ruler of Egypt.

2022年11月29日 · The Egyptian creation myth centered around a creator god (usually Ra, but possibly Ptah, Atum, or Amun, depending on the tale) who brought the world into being by ejaculating and created the first gods through his seed. Hathor’s cult held that the goddess was both the hand that aroused the creator and the vital force of his seed. The Coffin ...

Egyptian god names: Origin, structure, and meaning. Travel through the centuries and arrive in the world of Egyptian gods, where a non-traditional pantheon and an emphasis on life after death give Egyptian mythology both a spooky and mysterious quality to fiction and gaming.