#setpeople

For the Egyptians, accustomed to considering themselves the best people in the world, the conquest by the Hyksos brought tremendous culture shock, and subsequent Egyptian propganda portrayed the Hyksos as godless and brutal. The truth, however, seems to have been rather different. The Hyksos enthusiastically adopted Egyptian culture, being particularly devoted to the god Set. They even sponsored the preservatiion of documents dating to the beginning of the old kingdom that otherwise would have been lost. Their biggest crime, however, was in being foreigners, something that the Egyptians could not tolerate.