Egyptian funerary religion
Set
Set kills Osiris and later scatters his body. Tirard reads this conflict as a drama of death, disintegration, and the eventual victory achieved by Horus. His hostility also appears in the wounded Eye of Horus: Set takes the form of a black pig and injures the eye. The book’s Ennead lists show that his place among the gods is not erased by his adversarial role.
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Principal account
TraditionalSet kills Osiris and later scatters his body. Tirard reads this conflict as a drama of death, disintegration, and the eventual victory achieved by Horus.
Further detail
TraditionalHis hostility also appears in the wounded Eye of Horus: Set takes the form of a black pig and injures the eye. The book’s Ennead lists show that his place among the gods is not erased by his adversarial role.
Context & interpretation
Tirard’s 1910 account interprets selected funerary texts and rituals through the scholarship of her period. Local cults and surviving manuscripts vary; her comparisons and proposed origins are not a modern Egyptological consensus.
Original passages
Source 1
The Book of the Dead
Set, who was out hunting one night in the moonlightOpen this page in the book
Passage & edition details
Location recorded at citation review: Egyptian funerary religion; active reader leaf 136
Exact passage checked against active scan text and original-leaf mapping; scan line breaks normalised.
- Edition
- IMJ-0039-E001
- Reader page
- IMJ-0039-E001-P0136
- Original scan leaf
- 146
- Recorded leaf number
- 136
- Current Reader position
- 128
- Reader verification
- Matches the reviewed Reader
- Location review
- Original scan location confirmed against the reviewed Reader mapping; the earlier recorded number is retained above.
Source 2
The Book of the Dead
the black pig, in fact, was the god Set in disguiseOpen this page in the book
Passage & edition details
Location recorded at citation review: Egyptian funerary religion; active reader leaf 107
Exact passage checked against active scan text and original-leaf mapping; scan line breaks normalised.
- Edition
- IMJ-0039-E001
- Reader page
- IMJ-0039-E001-P0107
- Original scan leaf
- 117
- Recorded leaf number
- 107
- Current Reader position
- 100
- Reader verification
- Matches the reviewed Reader
- Location review
- Original scan location confirmed against the reviewed Reader mapping; the earlier recorded number is retained above.
Continue exploring
Osiris
Slain king, restored father, and judge of the Egyptian dead.
InjuresEye of Horus
A protective eye emblem whose divine associations vary within the compilation.
Shared source pageIsis
The protective mother and mourner who searches for Osiris’s scattered body and appeals for the healing of Horus.
Same subject and traditionAnubis
Guardian of the mummy and guide into the judgment hall.
Same subject and traditionAtum
The self-emerging creator called Tum by Tirard, rising from primordial water in the Heliopolitan creation account.