#setmyths

Ba of Seth is being sent, because he was meant to do more. He has more power than any other god, for he is the one protecting the boat of Re and repelling Apophis. Despite the fact that he is on the side of Re and he is good, his Ba must be restrained (sAwt) 41. Precisely because of the factthat he is the strongest divinity and he has a double-sided nature, he is unpredictable

The acts which caused the death of Osiris are not to be considered bad at all costs. This, probably, is one of the ways for the ancient Egyptians to explain death and to put Osiris on the place he is supposed to be – as master of the Underworld. For Death to be defeated Osiris had to die. After all, Seth is the strongest of all the gods and it is normal for him to be the killerof Osiris. If his actions were so wrong and bad he would have been found guilty on the gods’ court. He would have been destroyed, but that did not happen

„Seth, lord of life, at the head of the boat of Re.“

As it seems to be clear from the Pyramid Texts, the god Seth is a fundamentally polysemic character. This comes from the fact that a “new” Seth, the murderer of Osiris according to the Heliopolitan theology, has been superposed to the older Seth, the god of Nubet (Ombos, Nagada), the protagonist of the historiographic myth together with Horus of Nekhen (Hieraconpolis). This article try to show how this double character of Seth has been intentionally used against whoever would contest the pharaonic power.

In the papyrus of Imhotep son of Pshentohe from the Ptolemaic Period mentioned that the breaking of the seal regarded as a misdeed as which the god of evil Seth had done, that among his many misdeeds he was accused of breaking the seal, so the texts said that breaking the seal was a crime caused the punishment by the god Re and destroying the bA ,without which the person could not get resurrection in the after world, 39 as follows: "you have opened the secret chest (coffin) which is in Heliopolis in order to see what was in it ,(although) it had been sealed with the seal of seventy-seven deities …Re smites (you on) your head ,he will destroy your bA".40