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Chapter Two

THE CONTENDING OF
HORUS AND SETH

"Was it a sad commentary on the history of warfare that the messianic
Essenes envisioned the Final War of Men as one in which the Company of
the Divine would join the Congregation of the Mortals, and the "war
cries of gods and men" would mingle on the battlefield?
"Not at all. What The War of the Sons of Light against the Sons of
Darkness had envisioned was simply that human warfare shall end just
as it had begun: with gods and men fighting side by side.
"Incredible as it may sound, a document exists that describes the
first war in which the gods involved mortal men. It is an inscription
on the walls of the great temple at Edfu, an ancient Egyptian holy
city that was dedicated to the god Horus.
"....The inscription, remarkable for its geographical accuracy, begins
with an exact date - a date not in the affairs of men but of the gods.
It deals with events when the gods themselves, long before the
Pharaohs, reigned over Egypt:
"In the year 363 His Majesty, Ra, the Holy One, the Falcon of the
Horizon, the Immortal Who For Ever Lives, was in the land of Khenn. He
was accompanied by his warriors, for the enemies had conspired against
their lord in the disctrict which has been called Ua-Ua since that
day...."
"....With a few words the ancient scribe succeeded in drawing the
background as well as setting the stage for the unusual war that was
about to unfold. We gather at once that the battle was brought on by a
conspiracy by certain "enemies" of the gods Ra and Horus, to take away
the "Luminous Crown of Lordship" unto themselves. This, obviously,
could have been done only by some other god or gods. To forestall the
conspiracy Ra - "accompanied by his warriors" - went in his boat to a
district where Horus had set up his headquarters.
"The "boat" of Ra, as is known from many other texts, was a Celestial
Boat in which Ra could soar to the farthest heavens. In this instance
Ra used it to land far away from any waters, "in the western part" of
the district of Ua-Ua. There he landed east of the "Throne Place" of
Horus. And Horus came to greet his forefather and respond to him that
"the enemy" was gathering its forces.
"Then Ra, the Holy One, the Falcon of the Horizon, said unto Horus,
the Winged Measurer: "Lofty issue of Ra, my begotten: Go quickly,
knock down the enemy whom you have seen."
"So instructed, Horus took off in the Winged Disk to search for the
enemy from the skies.
"From the skies, flying in the Winged Disk, Horus spotted the enemy
forces and unleashed upon them a "storm" that cound neither be seen
nor heard, yet it brought instantenous death.
"Horus then flew back to the boat of Ra in the Winged Disk, "which
shined in many colours."
"....And Thoth (the god of magical crafts)said:
"Oh Lord of the Gods! The Winged Measurer has returned in the great
Winged Disk, shining with many colours...."
"Therefore he is named from that day on: "The Winged Measurer." And
they named after Horus the Winged Measurer, the city of Hut "Behutet,"
from that day on.
"....Traditions held that Edfu was where Horus established a divine
metal foundry, at which unique weapons made of "divine iron" were
forged. It was there, too, that Horus trained an army of mesniu -
"Metal People." They were depicted on the walls of the temple of Edfu
as men with shaven heads, wearing a short tunic and a deep collar,
carrying weapons in each hand. A depiction of an unidentified,
harpoonlike weapon was included in the hieroglyphic words for "divine
iron" and "metal people."
"The mesniu were, according to Egyptian traditions, the first men ever
to have been armed by the gods with weapons made of metal. They also
were, as we shall soon gather from the unfolding tale, the first men
to have been enlisted by a god to fight in the wars between the gods.
"....The initial victories apparently also strengthened the alliance
of the gods, for we are told that the Asiatic goddess Ishtar (the
Egyptian texts call her by her Canaanite name Ashtoreth) had joined
the group. Hovering in the sky, Horus called on Ra to scout the land
below.
"....Since the enemies on the land were hidden, Ra had an idea: "And
Ra said unto the gods accompanying him: 'Let us guide our vessel
towards the water, for the enemy lies in the land.' And they called
the waters 'The Travelled Waters' from that day on." While Ra could
utilize the amphibious capabilities of his vehicle, Horus was in need
of a waterborne vessel. So they gave him a boat, "and called it Mak-A
(Great Protector) unto this day."
It was then that the first battle involving mortal men ensued.
"It was then that the Winged Disk was adopted as the emblem of Horus
victorious:
"It is from that day that the metal emblems of Horus have existed. It
was Horus who had fashioned as his emblem the Winged Disk, placing it
upon the forepart of the boat of Ra.
The goddess of the north and the goddess of the south, represented as
two serpents, he placed alongside.
"And Horus stood behind the emblem, upon the boat of Ra, the Divine
Iron and the chain in his had.
"In spite of the proclamation of Horus by Thoth as a bringer of peace,
peace was not yet in hand.
"....While the first aerial battle broke through the defenses
separating Egypt from Nubia at Syene (Aswan), the ensuing battles on
land and water secured for Horus the bend of the Nile, from Thebes to
Dendera. There great temples and royal sites proliferated in days to
come. Now the way was open into the heartland of Egypt.... A series of
brief, but fierce, encounters then ensued; the place names - well
established in ancient Egyptian geography - indicate that the
attacking gods reached the area of lakes that had streched in
antiquity from the Red Sea to the Mediterranean (some of which still
remain).
"....The Edfu temple inscription now shifts to a new panel, for indeed
there began a new chapter in that War of the Gods. The enemies that
had managed to escape "directed themselves by the Lake of the North,
setting themselves toward the Mediterranean, which they desired to
reach by sailing through the water district. But the god smote their
hearts (with fear), and when they reached the middle of the waters as
they fled, they directed themselves from the western lake to the
waters which connect with the lakes of the district Mer, in order to
join themselves there with the enemies who were the Land of Seth."
"These verses provide not only geographical information; they also
identify "the enemies" for the first time.
It was when Horus, in hot pursuit, crossed the waters into the
territory of Seth that:
"It was then, according to the inscription in the great temple of
Edfu, that Seth was so enraged that he faced Horus for a series of
battles - on the ground and in the air - for god-to-god combat. Of
this combat there have been found several versions....What is
interesting at this point is the fact brought out by E.A. Wallis Budge
in The Gods of the Egyptians: that in the first involvement of men in
the Wars of the Gods, it was the arming of mankind with the Divine
Iron that brought victory to Horus: "It is pretty clear that he owed
his success chiefly to the superiority of the weapons with which he
and his men were armed, and to the material of which they were made."
"Thus according to Egyptian writings, did man learn to lift sword
against man.
"When all the fighting was over, Ra expressed satisfaction with the
works of "these Metal People of Horus," and he decreed that henceforth
they "shall dwell in sanctuaries" and shall be served with libations
and offerings "as their reward, because they have slain the enemies of
the god Horus." They were settled at Edfu, the Upper Egypt capital of
Horus, and in This (Tanis in Greek, the biblical Zo'an), the Lower
Egypt capital of the god. In time they outgrew their purely military
role and attained the title Shamsu-Hor ("Attendants of Horus"),
serving as his human aides and emissaries.

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