Write-up by Neil Gill
When Horus grew up, he reclaimed his father's throne from Seth speedily subsequent a violent contest in which Seth plucked out just 1 of Horus' eyes and Horus Seth's genitals.The myth of the battle involving Horus and Seth is the Egyptian edition of a standard Afro-Asiatic apocalyptic theme of cosmic battle involving an infant-messiah(as "avenger of blood") and an evil cosmic serpent often pictured as dwelling in the deep. We get this apocalyptic messianic topic in the liturgical hymns of the Davidic cult of YHWH in Psalm 74: 12-14: "God is from outdated functioning salvation in the midst of the earth. Thou didst divide the sea by thy could nicely. Thou didst break the head of the dragon in the drinking water. Thou didst crush the head of Leviathan, thou didst give him as foods for the creatures of the wilderness..."We purchase a really relevant reference to the Devil-Dragon-Serpent of the apocalyptic fight also in Isaiah 27: a single: "In that day YHWH with his challenging and fantastic and powerful sword shall punish Leviathan the fleeing serpent, Leviathan the twisting serpent, and he will slay the dragon that is in the sea."Isaiah associates his eyesight of God's apocalyptic endtime(mythical time) triumph about the Dragon-Serpent of the deep with the eyesight of a new age: "..in that day Jacob shall just take root, Israel shall blossom and set forth shoots and fill the somme world with fruit."YHWH's victory over Leviathan is connected with the commencement of reign of a messianic "son of David," a "Shoot from the stump of Jesse," who will shall, as YHWH's agent in the execution of judgment, "...smite the earth with the rod of his mouth and with the breath of his lips slay the wicked."The figure of the apocalyptic summary-time(mythical time) messiah as "Son of David" is equal to that of the Egyptian Horus as "Avenger of his Father." In the Egyptian legend, the infant Horus is represented with a finger on his decrease lip, a symbolic representation of his id as a messianic little one-deity sucking at a finger like an infant. The historical Greeks called the typical Afro-Asiatic messianic kid-deity Harpokrates. Dragon slaying deities have been just about universal in the historical Close to East: The Hittite Sutekh was a dragon slayer. The Greek Heracles fought and killed the monster Hydra. The Norse Thor(son of Odin) at Ragnarok killed the Midgrad serpent. Serpent slayer heroes have been pictured in myths as finger or thumb sucking infants. Sigurd, Siegfried and the Celtic Finn mac Coul all sucked at a finger or thumb quickly proper soon after slaying the Dragon-Serpent. In the Historic Egyptian story of the cosmic battle with regards to Horus and Seth, Seth(as Apep) is represented as a "roaring serpent" and Seth was pointed out to have been confined, right away appropriate after defeat by the sunshine god Ra, in a cave or hole. In Hittite mythology, we have the monster Typhoon, a fifty %-human, fifty % reptile dragon who dwelt in the subterranean caves and warred vs . the gods. He was a fire breathing dragon with lightening and flames flashing from his eyes and tempests issuing with his breath. Typhoon was slain in the Hittite myth by Tarku(a form of Sutekh who is a "very good" god in Hittite mythology).
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