This paper aims to investigate the positive nature of Setesh (Set, Seth, Sutekh) from the earliest reaches of human history up until the modern day. It will address the god before the coming of Asar (Osiris), after the rise of Ra and Asar in the 4th-5th Dynasties, as an outcast, as a patron deity in the 18th-20th Dynasties, following his fall and demonization, his associations with serpents, Gnosticism, and early Christianity, his reemergence in the academic, occult, and esoteric traditions of the West, and finally applications of the study of Setesh to modern academia.
Updated Nehushtan and Asherah section, 7/31/2023
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