this might just be a long post but I need to set this roller coaster up before I copy paste the hell ride I’m about to take you on….
Ever since I was a kid, I have been obsessed with Ancient egypt, I loved everything about that history….I think the very 1st music video that I consciously remember as a kid/toddler was “Remember the time” by Michael Jackson and because I had a super religious upbringing…my “bedtime stories” were always things like the story of Moses, Joseph etc. and then there was that beautiful spot in the 90′s when these Ancient Egypt themed films like “The Prince of Egypt” and “The Mummy” came out (both films…I LOVE btw)…so that just further fuelled my pre-existing love for Ancient Egyptian iconography and aesthetic….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 say….if you see a god with a crocodile head….that’s “Sobek”, if the head is jackal…it’s “Anubis” etc.) but beyond the really obvious, my knowledge has been for the most part superficial….
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 jokes…watch “Gods of Egypt”, A film I knew I was going to hate but most of all laugh at but the same time….I could see Chadwick Boseman perform and do his thing and it would be the salvaging aspect of the watching experience…..and halfway through this movie it dawned on me….I know all of the names of these Gods and even many that aren’t mentioned here and their divine duties but I don’t really know anything about their mythology…..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 hole…
and I landed on some shit that knocked the air right out of my lungs….
lemme set the stage….and to help me set the story up, I’ll be using Lion King references…
Isis (Sarabi…oh did I mention that Isis, Set and Osiris are siblings..yeah)
you’re all caught up right?, let’s crack on…..so just like in Lion King….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/reign…..only its the most chaotic ancient divine shit show of a soap opera, this is directly from wikipedia:
“Conflict 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 Horus’ 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 “The Contendings of Horus and Seth”, 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 Set’s 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 Set’s 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 Set’s claim of dominance over Horus, and call his semen forth, but it answered from the river, invalidating his claim. Then, the gods listened to Horus’ 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. Set’s boat, being made of heavy stone, sank, but Horus’ 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] ”
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