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The Star Child
Tonight is another installment of our applied theurgy classes, specifically dealing with Sutekh also known as Set. To understand Set best for this purpose, you would need to consider him from the point of view of the teachings of heka. Heka is the Egyptian word for magick. In Egyptian metaphysics, everything that exists shares in…
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Set’s Relationships
As Egypt came to interact with surrounding cultures, they became more and more xenophobic. That coupled with the adoption of Set by foreign powers that for a time ruled a part of Egypt, Set would come to be demonized rather than being a god of exploration, trade and progress. Originally, if it weren’t for the…
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Path of Set
If one chose to follow the path of Set, this would involve progressive thinking, open social interaction, avoidance of partisan politics, and strong individualism. Another thing about Set that threw many Egyptians off, and may have added to his “evil” image, was that most of their gods seemed to live in close relationship with each…
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Protector of the Sun
What is the meaning of being the guide of the sun through the underworld? Every force in the order of the natural world was thought to exist for a purpose whether human beings were comfortable with it or not. The fierce heat and winds and sandstorms that darkened the sky were thought to serve the…
Category: Sutekh
The god of frontier towns in the Egyptian empire and started out as the primary deity of the southern kingdom of Egypt. Unlike the other neter or gods, Sutekh / Set is not linked to an identifiable natural animal. Instead, he is represented by the typhonic beast. Set is a god of storms as well as of gold and progress and foreigners.
The path of Set would involve progressive thinking, open social interaction, avoidance of partisan politics, and strong individualism.
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