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Divinity · ◆ Darkness
Set
majorattested3200 BCE to 2700 BCE
Egyptian god of chaos, storms, and the desert. Set murdered his brother Osiris and contested Horus for the throne of Egypt. Embodiment of chaos in the cosmic order.
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Signature powerRed StormMurders order and rules the desert waste.
◈ Open relationship graph →Its universe
The mythic order Set belongs to, who comes before and after in the story of this world.
The same idol, across the ages
Scholars have long read Set as one face of a wider figure that recurs under many names through history: the the adversary.
Read why these are held to be one →Voices & connections
Figures bound to Set, family and rivals within the myth, and the thinkers and writers who shaped how we know them.