Set as adversary

[chaos_mage4]

Hello there everyone, I was reading a part of Luciferian Witchcraft by Michael W. Ford, and it was talking about how Set related to the adversary.
Does anyone have any insight on this? Any thoughts and opinions? I thought it was a pretty good idea, IMO, but I would like to get some other insight towards it.
Thanks in advance,
~Christopher

[m1thr0s]

My knowledge of this is a little blurry and I haven't read Ford's book. Just from a general study of Egyptian cosmology it seems fairly clear that Set was relegated to many roles generally assigned to the Judeo-Christian Satan, so that the parallels between Set & Satan are fairly strong, with the one outstanding difference that it is not really very clear that Satan was ever just one character exactly. "The Satan" would have been assumed by different figureheads at different points in time. Set, in contrast, was always a stationary figure and maintained a constant position in the Pantheon of the Gods from the earliest times.

I don't think that these parallels are any great mystery to most scholars today but I also don't think it is really possible to extrapolate from this that the one is the same as the other.

edit: that would seem to be the Setian position as well from what I can gather. They seem to spend a lot of time asserting that Set & Satan are NOT the same thing...still, if *Satan* is not so much a character at all as it is a kind of archetypal *position* relative to the status quo...I think the argument could swing both ways...

m1thr0s

[DocHolliday]

Set's role in Egyptian religion, like that of most of the netjeru, was fluid, not static. History would see Set progress from one of the earliest deities (Heru-Set) to the god of foreigners (Sutekh), and eventually to identification with Apep and evil (Set-Typhon). Like Cthulhu, Set has always been the only one among the netjeru that is "set apart." While counted as one of the gods of Egypt, he has always existed somewhat on the periphery, as the lord of storms, chaos, and master of the harsh deserts of Upper Egypt.

[m1thr0s]

I remember reading an article years ago that I have long since lost track of discussing the fact that Set's assigned star was at one time the brightest star in the night sky, but was gradually replaced by Sirius through the procession of Aeons. The author goes on to speculate that this might have been the main reason Set fell from grace in any sense and became more identified as a sort of outcast God in general. My memory of all of this is unfortunately vague and I wish I were better about keeping such articles on tap when I encounter them. Because the Egyptians were very keen on stars and their movements and positions in the heavens, this seemed to me to be a very likely scenario at the time.

m1thr0s