Monday, November 12, 2012

The malevolent Egyptian god Seth, Cairo Museum

A rare statue of the god of chaos

“The Egyptians generally chose red pottery to smash, the colour of Seth, god of chaos, and also the colour of blood, but the use of red ink would suffice, usually scrawled in cursive hieratic text. Let me give you the flavour of threat formulae:
“I overthrow all enemies from all their seats in every place where they areevery land, every ruler, every servant, every woman, every man, every child, every animal… all will be destroyed forever. They will not exist, nor will their bodies. They will not exist, nor will their souls. They will not exist, nor will their flesh. They will not exist, nor will their bones… they will not exist and the place where they are will not exist."
'The Smiting Texts' - archaeological adventure, Amazon Kindle and Paperback, first book in the series.