21+ The Egyptian God Seth Pics. Seth /sɛθ/) is a god of deserts, storms, disorder, violence, and foreigners in ancient egyptian religion. In egyptian mythology, set (also spelt sutekh , setesh , seteh ) is an ancient god , who was originally the god of the desert, one of the two main biomes that constitutes egypt, the other being the small fertile area on either side of the nile.
His cult is believed to be the oldest in egypt and seth seems to have had plenty of mayhem attributed to him.
Early in egyptian history, seth is spoken of in terms of reverence as the god of wind and storms. To egyptians, these were more than just random things that happened; It was seth who stood in the front of the solar barque to defended the sun god ra from his most dangerous foe, the serpent apep. Seth was the ancient egyptian god of chaos and represented everything that threatened harmony in the nation.
