Typhon & Set

Andrew Bollen · 12 Mar 2003, 10:19 · from urth-v0303.mbox · original

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From: "Andrew Bollen" <abollen at internode.on.net>
Subject: (urth) Typhon & Set
Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2003 21:19:40 +1100
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FWIW, I think that the King Jesus/Typhon business is a red herring. I =
think that Graves' construction of a Set/Typhon story from fragments of =
Roman/Greek slander against Jews & Christians and other bits & pieces is =
too fragile and tendentious to be the kind of thing Wolfe melds into his =
stories. =20

But it is interesting to think of an Egyptian rather than a Greek Typhon =
in the context of New Sun. Typhon was identified with Set, the slayer of =
Osiris, and thus a Satanish kind of figure. Even more explicitly (from =
the link below):

"In its second form the two Combatant gods are Ra and Set, and the chief =
object of the latter is to prevent Ra from appearing in the East daily."

So "Typhon" is quite an appropriate name for an enemy of the New Sun.

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