In Egyptian mythology, which god represented storms, chaos, disorder and war?
"Set (deity) Set or Seth (Egyptian: ""stẖ;"" also transliterated Setesh, Sutekh, Setekh, or Suty) is a god of chaos, the desert, storms, disorder, violence, and foreigners in ancient Egyptian religion. In Ancient Greek, the god's name is given as ""Sēth"" (Σήθ). Set had a positive role where he accompanies Ra on his solar boat to repel Apep, the serpent of Chaos. Set had a vital role as a reconciled combatant. He was lord of the red (desert) land where he was the balance to Horus' role as lord of the black (soil) land. In Egyptian mythology, Set is portrayed as"
"Apep Apep ( or ; also spelled Apepi or Aapep) or Apophis (; ) was the ancient Egyptian deity who embodied chaos (""ı͗zft"" in Egyptian) and was thus the opponent of light and Ma'at (order/truth). He appears in art as a giant serpent. His name is reconstructed by Egyptologists as *ʻAʼpāp(ī), as it was written ""ꜥꜣpp(y)"" and survived in later Coptic as ""Aphōph"". Apep was first mentioned in the Eighth Dynasty, and he was honored in the names of the Fourteenth Dynasty king 'Apepi and of the Greater Hyksos king Apophis. Ra was the solar deity, bringer of light, and"
"(esp. the dedication of a Nephthys-cult statue). Meanwhile, Nephthys was also venerated as ""Mistress"" in the Osirian temples of these districts, as part of the specifically Osirian college. It would appear that the ancient Egyptians in these locales had little problem with the paradoxical dualities inherent in venerating Seth and Nephthys as juxtaposed against Osiris, Isis, and Nephthys. Further study of the enormously important role of Seth in ancient Egyptian religion (particularly after the Twentieth Dynasty) is imperative. Set (deity) Set or Seth (Egyptian: ""stẖ;"" also transliterated Setesh, Sutekh, Setekh, or Suty) is a god of chaos, the desert, storms,"
"spelled Apepi or Aapep) was the ancient Egyptian deity who embodied chaos (""ı͗zft"" in Egyptian) and was thus the opponent of light and Ma'at (order/truth). He appears in art as a giant serpent. His name is reconstructed by Egyptologists as *ʻAʼpāpī, as it was written ""ꜥꜣpp(y)"" and survived in later Coptic as ""Aphōph"". The deity Set was originally associated with both positive and negative roles: a protector of Ra on the solar boat from the Serpent of Chaos, and a usurper who killed and mutilated his brother in order to assume the throne. However, he was later demonized and he"
"been argued that the damage attributed to this storm may have been caused by an earthquake following the Thera Eruption, it has also been suggested that it was caused during a war with the Hyksos, and the storm reference is merely a metaphor for chaos upon which the Pharaoh was attempting to impose order. Documents such as Hatshepsut's Speos Artemidos depict storms, but are clearly figurative not literal. Research indicates that the Speos Artemidos stele is a reference to her overcoming the powers of chaos and darkness. Akhenaten, also known as Amenhotep IV, was an ancient Egyptian pharaoh of the"
"Hadad Hadad ( ), Adad, Haddad (Akkadian) or Iškur (Sumerian) was the storm and rain god in the Northwest Semitic and ancient Mesopotamian religions. He was attested in Ebla as ""Hadda"" in c. 2500 BCE. From the Levant, Hadad was introduced to Mesopotamia by the Amorites, where he became known as the Akkadian (Assyrian-Babylonian) god Adad. Adad and Iškur are usually written with the logogram —the same symbol used for the Hurrian god Teshub. Hadad was also called ""Pidar"", ""Rapiu"", ""Baal-Zephon"", or often simply Baʿal (Lord), but this title was also used for other gods. The bull was the symbolic"
"Maat Maat or Ma'at (Egyptian mꜣꜥt /ˈmuʀʕat/) refers to the ancient Egyptian concepts of truth, balance, order, harmony, law, morality, and justice. Maat was also the goddess who personified these concepts, and regulated the stars, seasons, and the actions of mortals and the deities who had brought order from chaos at the moment of creation. Her ideological opposite was Isfet (Egyptian ""jzft""), meaning injustice, chaos, violence or to do evil. Cuneiform texts indicate that the word ""m3ˤt"" was pronounced /múʔʕa/ during the New Kingdom of Egypt, having lost the feminine ending ""t"". Sound shifts from ""u"" to ""e"" later produced"
"Comus In Greek mythology, Comus () is the god of festivity, revels and nocturnal dalliances. He is a son and a cup-bearer of the god Dionysus. Comus represents anarchy and chaos. His mythology occurs in the later times of antiquity. During his festivals in Ancient Greece, men and women exchanged clothes. He was depicted as a young man on the point of unconsciousness from drink. He had a wreath of flowers on his head and carried a torch that was in the process of being dropped. Unlike the purely carnal Pan or purely intoxicated Dionysos, Comus was a god of"
"four major gods of Chaos, each with its own personality and units. Khorne is the god of war and violence. Khorne believes in honour and will not reward those who kill the weak or puny. Unlike the other gods, there are no cults to Khorne in the empire, and no holy places in his name. This is because Khorne does not see the use of building places of worship when his followers could be practicing their worship of him in battle. The only religious practices of his followers are the shouts of ""Blood for the blood god, skulls for the"
"hammer."" Horagalles is the god of the sky, thunder and lightning, the rainbow, weather, oceans, and lakes and rules over human life, health and wellbeing. He punishes ""hurtful demons"" or ""evil spirits"" (i.e., trolls) who frequent the rocks and mountains; he destroys them with his lightning, shoots them with his bow, or dashes their brains out with his hammer. The rainbow is his bow, ""Aijeke dauge"". On Sami shaman drums Horagalles was occasionally depicted with a sledgehammer in one hand and a cross-hammer in the other, or symbolized by two crossed hammers. He made thunder and lightning with one hammer"
"as anarchic, violent and cruel as they are, while the Tau and Tyranids have none at all. Positive human feelings like love, altruism, valor, and invention are perverted by the Chaos Gods. For instance, Nurgle might represent acceptance and mercy, as he genuinely adores his worshippers and considers his plagues to be blessings. Tzeentch represents innovation and change, and a human who delves in science, invention, or social change risks becoming corrupted and mutated by his influence. Khorne thrives on violence of any sort, including that used by the Imperium to fight his own cultists. Chaos is the root cause"
"Tāwhirimātea In Māori mythology, Tāwhirimātea (or Tāwhiri) is the god of weather, including thunder and lightning, wind, clouds and storms. He is a son of Papatūānuku (earth mother) and Ranginui (sky father). In his anger at his brothers for separating their parents, Tāwhirimātea destroyed the forests of Tāne (god of forests), drove Tangaroa (god of the sea) and his progeny into the sea, pursued Rongo and Haumia-tiketike till they had to take refuge in the bosom of their mother Papa, and only found in Tūmatauenga a worthy opponent and eternal enemy (Tregear 1891:499). To fight his brothers, Tāwhirimātea gathered an"
"cycles of time. The most important of all Egyptian myths was the Osiris myth. It tells of the divine ruler Osiris, who was murdered by his jealous brother Set, a god often associated with chaos. Osiris's sister and wife Isis resurrected him so that he could conceive an heir, Horus. Osiris then entered the underworld and became the ruler of the dead. Once grown, Horus fought and defeated Set to become king himself. Set's association with chaos, and the identification of Osiris and Horus as the rightful rulers, provided a rationale for Pharaonic succession and portrayed the Pharaohs as the"
"is said of this matter. Sanchuniathion agrees with Ugaritic tradition in making Muth, the Ugaritic Mot, whom he also calls ""Death"", the son of El. Hadad Hadad ( ), Adad, Haddad (Akkadian) or Iškur (Sumerian) was the storm and rain god in the Northwest Semitic and ancient Mesopotamian religions. He was attested in Ebla as ""Hadda"" in c. 2500 BCE. From the Levant, Hadad was introduced to Mesopotamia by the Amorites, where he became known as the Akkadian (Assyrian-Babylonian) god Adad. Adad and Iškur are usually written with the logogram —the same symbol used for the Hurrian god Teshub. Hadad"
"the underworld, he was sometimes thought of as an ""Eater of Souls"". Thus the dead also needed protection, so they were sometimes buried with spells that could destroy Apep. The ""Book of the Dead"" does not frequently describe occasions when Ra defeated the chaos snake explicitly called Apep. Only BD Spells 7 and 39 can be explained as such. Apep Apep ( or ; also spelled Apepi or Aapep) or Apophis (; ) was the ancient Egyptian deity who embodied chaos (""ı͗zft"" in Egyptian) and was thus the opponent of light and Ma'at (order/truth). He appears in art as a"
"harm, and Petbe, an apotropaic god from the late eras of Egyptian history who was believed to avenge wrongdoing. Egyptian texts take different views on whether the gods are responsible when humans suffer unjustly. Misfortune was often seen as a product of ""isfet"", the cosmic disorder that was the opposite of ""maat"", and therefore the gods were not guilty of causing evil events. Some deities who were closely connected with ""isfet"", such as Set, could be blamed for disorder within the world without placing guilt on the other gods. Some writings do accuse the deities of causing human misery, while"
"and to continue the rituals that sustain them and their activities. In Egyptian belief, the disorder that predates the ordered world exists beyond the world as an infinite expanse of formless water, personified by the god Nun. The earth, personified by the god Geb, is a flat piece of land over which arches the sky, usually represented by the goddess Nut. The two are separated by the personification of air, Shu. The sun god Ra is said to travel through the sky, across the body of Nut, enlivening the world with his light. At night Ra passes beyond the western"
"Montu Montu was a falcon-god of war in ancient Egyptian religion, an embodiment of the conquering vitality of the Pharaoh. He was particularly worshipped in Upper Egypt and in the district of Thebes, despite being a Delta-native, astral deity. Montu's name, shown in Egyptian hieroglyphs to the right, is technically transcribed as ""mntw"" (meaning ""Nomad""). Because of the difficulty in transcribing Egyptian vowels, it is often realized as Mont, Monthu, Montju, Ment or Menthu. A very ancient god, Montu was originally a manifestation (as well as the goddess Sekhmet) of the scorching effect of Ra, the sun — and as"
"male storm god Athtar. Athtar was a god of the thunderstorm, dispensing natural irrigation in the form of rain. Athtar also represented fertility and water as essential to fertility. When representing water he stood not just for the act of raining itself, but rather for the useful flow of the water after the rain, in the ""wadi"", the Arabian watercourse which is dry except in the rainy season. Attar appears as the demon Ashtar in ""Shin Megami Tensei II"". Attar (god) Aṯtar (; Musnad: 𐩲𐩻𐩧) is an ancient Semitic deity whose role, name, and even gender varied by culture. The"
"and Set, the ancient Egyptian god of violence, chaos, and storms. This Gospel differs from the Gospel of Philip and the Gospel of Truth in that it is not from a Valentinian perspective and instead focuses on a viewpoint rooted in Sethianism. The main contents concern the Sethian Gnostic understanding of how the earth came into being, how Seth, in the Gnostic interpretation, is incarnated as Jesus in order to release people's souls from the evil prison that is creation. More specifically, the text can be divided into four parts concerning the creation of the heavenly world: the creation of"
"Song of Ullikummi"", a kind of sequel to the Hittite ""kingship in heaven"" succession myths of which the story of Teshub and Hedammu formed a part, tells of a second monster, this time made of stone, named Ullikummi that Teshub must defeat, in order to secure his rule. From apparently as early as Hecataeus of Miletus (c. 550 BC – c. 476 BC), Typhon was identified with Set, the Egyptian god of chaos and storms. This syncretization with Egyptian mythology can also be seen in the story, apparently known as early as Pindar, of Typhon chasing the gods to Egypt,"
"Huracan Huracan (; ; , ""one legged""), often referred to as ""U K'ux Kaj"", the ""Heart of Sky"", is a K'iche' Maya god of wind, storm, fire and one of the creator deities who participated in all three attempts at creating humanity. He also caused the Great Flood after the second generation of humans angered the gods. He supposedly lived in the windy mists above the floodwaters and repeatedly invoked ""earth"" until land came up from the seas. His name, understood as 'One-Leg', suggests god K of Postclassic and Classic Maya iconography, a deity of lightning with one human leg,"
"Erra (god) Erra (sometimes called Irra) is an Akkadian plague god known from an 'epos' of the eighth century BCE. Erra is the god of mayhem and pestilence who is responsible for periods of political confusion. In the epic that is given the modern title ""Erra"", the writer Kabti-ilani-Marduk, a descendant, he says, of Dabibi, presents himself in a colophon following the text as simply the transcriber of a visionary dream in which Erra himself revealed the text. The poem opens with an invocation. The god Erra is sleeping fitfully with his consort (identified with Mamītum and not with the"
"Devourer A devourer, in a religious/mythological context, is an entity of immense destructive power who in one way or another is associated with death, destruction, or even the end of the world. There are several devourer entities in Egyptian mythos, but the most well known would be Apophis (or Apep). Apophis is the God of Darkness, Chaos, Evil and Destruction who was the brother of Ra. Every night, Ra would descend into the underworld to start the cycle for the next day. During this time, Apophis would attempt to devour him, thus preventing the sun from rising the next day,"
"known for bringing famine during dry seasons, and locusts during rainy seasons. Pazuzu was invoked in apotropaic amulets, which combat the powers of his rival, the malicious goddess Lamashtu, who was believed to cause harm to mother and child during childbirth. Although Pazuzu is, himself, considered to be an evil spirit, he drives and frightens away other evil spirits, therefore protecting humans against plagues and misfortunes. Pazuzu In ancient Mesopotamian religion, Pazuzu (Akkadian: ""pà.zu.zu;"" also called Fazuzu or Pazuza) was the king of the demons of the wind, brother of Humbaba and son of the god Hanbi. He also represented"
"pronounced *[muʔ.ʕat]), also spelled māt or mayet, was the ancient Egyptian concept of truth, balance, order, law, morality, and justice. Maat was also personified as a goddess regulating the stars, seasons, and the actions of both mortals and the deities. The deities set the order of the universe from chaos at the moment of creation. Her (ideological) counterpart was Isfet, who symbolized chaos, lies, and injustice. The four classic cardinal virtues are: This enumeration is traced to Greek philosophy and was listed by Plato in addition to piety: (hosiotēs), with the exception that wisdom replaced prudence as virtue. Some scholars"
"Vahagn Vahagn Vishapakagh (""Vahagn the Dragon Reaper"") or Vahakn () was a god of fire, thunder and war worshiped anciently and historically in Armenia. Some time during Ancient history, he formed a ""triad"" with Aramazd and Anahit. Vahagn was identified with the Greek deity Heracles. The priests of Vahévahian temple, who claimed Vahagn as their own ancestor, placed a statue of the Greek hero in their sanctuary. In the Armenian translation of the Bible, ""Heracles, worshipped at Tyr"" is renamed ""Vahagn"". All the gods, according to the Euhemerist belief, had been living men; Vahagn likewise was introduced within the ranks"
"Enlil Enlil, later known as Elil, is an ancient Mesopotamian god associated with wind, air, earth, and storms. He is first attested as the chief deity of the Sumerian pantheon, but he was later worshipped by the Akkadians, Babylonians, Assyrians, and Hurrians. Enlil's primary center of worship was the Ekur temple in the city of Nippur, which was believed to have been built by Enlil himself and was regarded as the ""mooring-rope"" of heaven and earth. He is also sometimes referred to in Sumerian texts as Nunamnir. According to one Sumerian hymn, Enlil himself was so holy that not even"
"Norse mythology, earthquakes were explained as the violent struggling of the god Loki. When Loki, god of mischief and strife, murdered Baldr, god of beauty and light, he was punished by being bound in a cave with a poisonous serpent placed above his head dripping venom. Loki's wife Sigyn stood by him with a bowl to catch the poison, but whenever she had to empty the bowl the poison dripped on Loki's face, forcing him to jerk his head away and thrash against his bonds, which caused the earth to tremble. In Greek mythology, Poseidon was the cause and god"
"Weneg (Egyptian deity) Weneg (also read as Uneg) was a sky and death deity from ancient Egyptian religion, who was said to protect the earth and her inhabitants against the arrival of the ""great chaos"". The first known mention of a god named Weneg appears in a spell from the ""Pyramid Texts"" from the Sixth Dynasty, where he is described both as a death deity and as the deceased king. He is addressed as ""Son of Ra"". The texts contain several prayers asking that the king receive safe travel across the sky together with Ra in his celestial barque. The"
"Teshub Teshub (also written Teshup or Tešup; cuneiform ; hieroglyphic Luwian , read as ""Tarhunzas"") was the Hurrian god of sky and storm. Taru was the name of a similar Hattic Storm God, whose mythology and worship as a primary deity continued and evolved through descendant Luwian and Hittite cultures. In these two, Taru was known as ""Tarhun / Tarhunt- / Tarhuwant- / Tarhunta"", names derived from the Anatolian root ""*tarh"" ""to defeat, conquer"". Taru/Tarhun/Tarhunt was ultimately assimilated into and identified with the Hurrian Teshub around the time of the religious reforms of Muwatalli II, ruler of the Hittite New"
"Pazuzu In ancient Mesopotamian religion, Pazuzu (Akkadian: ""pà.zu.zu;"" also called Fazuzu or Pazuza) was the king of the demons of the wind, brother of Humbaba and son of the god Hanbi. He also represented the southwestern wind, the bearer of storms and drought. Pazuzu is often depicted as a combination of diverse animal and human parts. He has the body of a man, the head of a lion or dog, talons of an eagle, two pairs of wings, and a scorpion's tail. He has his right hand up and left hand down. Pazuzu is the demon of the southwest wind"
"the sea and his palace is in the abyss associated with the depths, or Biblical tehom, of the oceans. Yam is the deity of the primordial chaos and represents the power of the sea, untamed and raging; he is seen as ruling storms and the disasters they wreak, and was an important divinity to the maritime Phoenicians. The gods cast out Yam from the heavenly mountain Sappan (modern Jebel Aqra; ""Sappan"" is cognate to ""Tsephon""). The fight of Baal-Hadad with Yam has long been equated with the ""Chaoskampf"" mytheme in Mesopotamian mythology in which a god fights and destroys a"