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THE CONTENDING
OF HORUS AND SETH

"The inscriptions on the temple walls at Edfu, it has been
established, was a copy of a text that was known to the Egyptian
scribes from earlier sources but when and by whom the original text
had been composed, no one can really tell....
"....As with all Egyptian historical texts, this one, too, begins with
a date: "In the year 363." Such dates always indicate the year in the
reign of the Pharaoh to whom the event pertains: each Pharaoh had his
first year, second year, and so on. The text in question, however,
deals not with the affair of kings but with divine matters - a war
among the gods. The text thus relates events that had happened in the
"year 363" in the reign of certain gods and takes us back to the early
times when gods, not men, ruled over Egypt.
"Thus there indeed had been such a time, Egyptian traditions left no
doubt. The Greek historian Herodotus (fifth century B.C.), on his
extensive visit to Egypt, was given by the priests details of the
Pharaonic dynasties and reigns. "The priests," he wrote, "said that
Men was the first king of Egypt, and that it was he who raised the
dyke which protects Memphis from the inundations of the Nile,"
diverted the river, and proceeded to build Memphis on the reclaimed
land. "Besides these works he also, the priests said, built the temple
of Vulcan, which stands within the city, a vast edifice, very worthy
of mention.
"Next day read me from a papyrus the names of 330 monarchs who were
his successors upon the throne. In this number of successors there
were eighteen Ethiopian kings, and one queen who was a native, all the
rest were kings and Egyptians."
"The priests then showed Herodotus rows of statues representing the
successive Pharaohs and related to him various details pertaining to
some of those kings and their claims to divine ancestry.
"The beings represented by these images were very far indeed from
being gods," Herodotus commented; "however," he went on to say:
"In times preceding them it was otherwise: Then Egypt had gods for its
rulers, who dwelt upon the Earth with men, one of them being always
supreme above the rest.
The last of this was Horus, the son of Osiris, whom the Greeks called
Apolo. He deposed Typhon, and ruled over Egypt as its last god-king."
"....Manetho, (an Egyptian priest) (according to Flavius Josephus) was
the first known historian to have divided the Egyptian rulers into
dynasties - a practice continued to this day. His Kings List - names,
lengths of reign, order of succession, and some other pertinent
information - has been mainly preserved through the writings of Julius
Africanus and Eusebius Caesarea (in the third and fourth centuries
A.D.).
These and other versions based on Manetho agree that he listed as the
first ruler of this first dynasty of Pharaohs the king Men (Menes in
Greek) - the very same king that Herodotus reported, based on his own
investigations in Egypt.
"This fact has since been confirmed by modern discoveries, such as the
Tablets of Abydos in which the Pharaoh Seti I, accompanied by his son,
Ramses II, listed the names of seventy-five of his predeccessors. The
first one to be named is Mena.
"If Herodotus is correct in regard to the dynasties of Egyptian
Pharaohs, could he also have been right in regard to a "preceding
time" when "Egypt had gods for its rulers"?
"Manetho, we find, had agreed with Herodotus also on that matter. The
dynasties of the Pharaohs, he wrote, were preceded by four other
dynasties - two of gods, one of demigods, and a transitional dynasty.
Seven gods completing 12,300 years as Manetho indicated:
"Ptah, Ra, Shu, Geb, Osiris, Seth, Horus" = 12,300 years.
Mr. Sitchin presents a table with different amount of years for each
god.
"....A century and a half of archaeological discoveries and the
deciphering of the hieroglyphic writing have convinced scholars that
the Pharaonic dynasties probably began in Egypt circa 3100 B.C.;
indeed, under a ruler whose hieroglyph, reads Men. He united Upper and
Lower Egypt and established his capital at a new city called Men-Neter
("The Beauty of Men") - Memphis in Greek.
"....A major archaeological document dealing with Egyptian kingship,
the so-called Turin Papyrus, begins with a dynasty of gods that  list
Ra, Geb, Osiris, Seth, and Horus, then Thoth, Maat, and others, and
assigns to Horus - just as Manetho did - a reign of 300 years. This
papyrus, which dates from the time of Ramses II, lists after the
divine rulers thirty-eight semidivine rulers: Nineteen Chiefs of the
White Wall and nineteen Venerables of the North." Between them and
Menes, the Turin Payrus states, there ruled human kings under the
patronage of Horus, their epithet was Shamsu-Hor!
"Addressing the Royal Society of Literature in London in 1843, the
curator of Egyptian Antiquities at the British Museum, Dr. Samuel
Birch, announced that he had counted on the papyrus and its fragments
a total of 330 names - a number that "coincided with the 300 kings
mentioned by Herodotus."
"....The Egyptians believed that "a very great god who came forth in
the earliest times" arrived in the land and found it lying under water
and mud. He undertook great works of dyking and land reclamation,
literally raising Egypt out of the waters - thus explaining Egypt's
nickname "The Raised Land." This olden god was named Ptah - a "God of
Heaven and Earth." He was considered to be a great engineer and
artificer.
"....Ptah and the other gods were called, in Egyptian, Ntr -
"Guardian, Watcher." They had come to Egypt, the Egyptians wrote, from
Ta-Ur, the "Far/Foreign Land," whose name Ur meant "olden" but could
have also been the actual place name - a place well known from
Mesopotamian and biblical records: the ancient city of Ur in southern
Mesopotamia. And the straits of the Red Sea, which connected
Mesopotamia and Egypt, were called Ta-Neter, the "Place of the Gods,"
the passage by which they had come to Egypt. 
"....In time - after 9,000 years, according to Manetho - Ra, a son of
Ptah, became the ruler over Egypt. His name, too, had no meaning in
Egyptian, but because Ra was associated with a bright celestial body,
scholars assumed that Ra meant "bright." We do know with greater
certainty that one of his nicknames, Tem, had the Semitic connotation
"the Complete, the Pure One."
"It was believed by the Egyptians that Ra, too, had come to Earth from
the "Planet of Millions of Years" in a Celestial Barge, the conical
upper part of which, called Ben-Ben ("Pyramidion Bird"), was later on
preserved in a specially built shrine in the sacred city Anu (the
biblical On, which is better known by its Greek name Heliopolis).
"....The first divine couple to rule when Ra tired of staying in Egypt
were his own children, the male Shu ("Dryness") and the female Tefnut
("Moisture"), their main task, according to Egyptian tales, was to
help Ra control the skies over the Earth.
"Shu and Tefnut set the example for mortal Pharaohs in later times:
the king selected his own half-sister as his royal spouse. They were
followed on the divine throne - as both legends and Manetho inform us
- by their children, again a brother-sister couple: Geb ("Who piles up
the Earth") and Nut ("The Streched-out Firmament").
"....Geb and Nut turned over the direct rule of Egypt to their four
children: Asar ("The All-Seeing"), whom the Greeks called Osiris, and
his sister-wife Ast, better known as Isis; and Seth and his wife
Nephtys (Nebt-Hat, "Lady of the House"), the sister of Isis. It was
with these gods, who were truly gods of Egypt, that the Egyptian tales
most concerned themselves, but in depicting them Seth was never shown
without his animal disguise: his face was never seen, and the meaning
of his name still defies Egyptologists, even if it is identical to the
name given in the Bible to Adam and Eve's third son.

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