Set
c. 2900 BCE – 400 CEattested
Naqada, Upper Egypt
- Egyptian
God of storms, deserts and disorder, drawn as an animal nobody has convincingly identified. He murdered Osiris, but also stood on the sun barque nightly killing the serpent that would otherwise end the world.
Known for
- necessary disorder
- the unidentifiable animal
- defender of the sun barque
Dates are estimates. A great deal of what this atlas covers is only datable to within a century.