Sethʼs Unique Head Inspiration | ||
| مجلة کلية الآثار . جامعة القاهرة | ||
| Volume 14, Issue 26, 2023, Pages 331-345 PDF (705.86 K) | ||
| Document Type: المقالة الأصلية | ||
| DOI: 10.21608/jarch.2023.277045 | ||
| Author | ||
| Heba Abd-El Monsef Nasef | ||
| Abstract | ||
| There has been much debate over the years about the true nature of the animal god Seth the sacred that he enigmatic personality, and the reason for the controversy is the animal’s head that does not belong to a specific animal. In this paper, the researcher presents an explanation of this unique head that gives a different view than the one with which it is usually depicted, and this interpretation is through the Osiris legend and its connection to the agricultural cycle in ancient Egypt, where the researcher tried to prove that Seth’s head was inspired by agricultural tools used in ancient Egypt; namely the plow and the hoe, and the similarity is not only evident in the figure but also in the function. | ||
| Keywords | ||
| Seth; Seth-animal; Osiris; myth; farming; hoe; hack; plow | ||
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