this might just be a long post but I need to set this roller coaster up before I copy paste the hell ride Iâm about to take you onâŚ.
Ever since I was a kid, I have been obsessed with Ancient egypt, I loved everything about that historyâŚ.I think the very 1st music video that I consciously remember as a kid/toddler was âRemember the timeâ by Michael Jackson and because I had a super religious upbringingâŚmy âbedtime storiesâ were always things like the story of Moses, Joseph etc. and then there was that beautiful spot in the 90â˛s when these Ancient Egypt themed films like âThe Prince of Egyptâ and âThe Mummyâ came out (both filmsâŚI LOVE btw)âŚso that just further fuelled my pre-existing love for Ancient Egyptian iconography and aestheticâŚ.like I could name everything about significant locations and names of Egyptian gods and what they looked like and their title (in terms of how they are depicted in ancient art, that is to sayâŚ.if you see a god with a crocodile headâŚ.thatâs âSobekâ, if the head is jackalâŚitâs âAnubisâ etc.) but beyond the really obvious, my knowledge has been for the most part superficialâŚ.
so the other day, I finished with work and decided to wind down and drink some wine with my dinner and for the sake of jokesâŚwatch âGods of Egyptâ, A film I knew I was going to hate but most of all laugh at but the same timeâŚ.I could see Chadwick Boseman perform and do his thing and it would be the salvaging aspect of the watching experienceâŚ..and halfway through this movie it dawned on meâŚ.I know all of the names of these Gods and even many that arenât mentioned here and their divine duties but I donât really know anything about their mythologyâŚ..heck I know Zues is a big ass hoe and Hera is a jealous pick-me who attacks the human women her man seduces, but how come I never learned about all of these Egyptian gods and what they are about? needless to say I fell down a internet worm holeâŚ
and I landed on some shit that knocked the air right out of my lungsâŚ.
lemme set the stageâŚ.and to help me set the story up, Iâll be using Lion King referencesâŚ
Isis (SarabiâŚoh did I mention that Isis, Set and Osiris are siblings..yeah)
youâre all caught up right?, letâs crack onâŚ..so just like in Lion KingâŚ.you have this central figure, Osiris, who gets murdered by a power hungry sibling, Set, who then has a life long rivalry with his nephew, Horus⌠over power/reignâŚ..only its the most chaotic ancient divine shit show of a soap opera, this is directly from wikipedia:
âConflict between Horus and Set
Horus was told by his mother, Isis, to protect the people of Egypt from Set, the god of the desert, who had killed Horusâ father, Osiris.[18][19] Horus had many battles with Set, not only to avenge his father, but to choose the rightful ruler of Egypt. In these battles, Horus came to be associated with Lower Egypt, and became its patron.
According to âThe Contendings of Horus and Sethâ, Set is depicted as trying to prove his dominance by seducing Horus and then having sexual intercourse with him. However, Horus places his hand between his thighs and catches Setâs semen, then subsequently throws it in the river so that he may not be said to have been inseminated by Set. Horus (or Isis herself in some versions) then deliberately spreads his own semen on some lettuce, which was Setâs favorite food. After Set had eaten the lettuce, they went to the gods to try to settle the argument over the rule of Egypt. The gods first listened to Setâs claim of dominance over Horus, and call his semen forth, but it answered from the river, invalidating his claim. Then, the gods listened to Horusâ claim of having dominated Set, and call his semen forth, and it answered from inside Set.[20][21]
However, Set still refused to relent, and the other gods were getting tired from over eighty years of fighting and challenges. Horus and Set challenged each other to a boat race, where they each raced in a boat made of stone. Horus and Set agreed, and the race started. But Horus had an edge: his boat was made of wood painted to resemble stone, rather than true stone. Setâs boat, being made of heavy stone, sank, but Horusâ did not. Horus then won the race, and Set stepped down and officially gave Horus the throne of Egypt.[23] After the New Kingdom, Set was still considered lord of the desert and its oases.[24]Â Â Â â
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