rhincodon-cynocephalus

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literally adore the way tkc treats their gods, especially when compared to the other rrverse series. yeah this is skrimbh hes a guy who lives in a downtown apartment that doubles as a storage den for the local library and makes biological weapons in his free time. he survives solely on krispy kreme donuts and caffeine pills. yeah he does have near-unlimited power but he kinda just. chills around. yeah no he's cool with us he helps us with our taxes. yeah no the other gods are all bastards and need to be imprisoned or otherwise gotten rid of i am SO sick of their bullshit. beehgt skipped in front of me in the mcdonadls drive thru yesterday and i yelled at her to get fucked. yeah she cursed me

The ancient Egyptians: And they were dualistic counterparts Herman te Velde, writing papers about Set in the 1960s: Oh my god they were dualistic counterparts

Sutekh

Offerings

Bourbon, whiskey, scotch, red wine, beer, milk, coffee, soda, water.

Meat, bread, fruits and vegetables, honey, sweets, cakes, candy, cinnamon, spices, spicy food, heavily seasoned foods.

Frankincense and myrrh, dragons blood, cinnamon, sandalwood, cedar, ginger, peppercorn, thyme, and cypress are all good scents for incense, candles, essential oils, or perfumes.

Sutekh was first associated with the color white, in earlier texts, and later became associated with the color red. Items of these colors are acceptable. Other items you may offer are crystals (carnelian, garnet, obsidian, tourmaline, jasper, gold, silver, etc.), and sand!

You can also give him workout equipment! Give him weights, bands, etc.

Ankh, was scepter, maat

Devotional acts

Acts of fun, loving chaos. Go out with your friends and joke around. Unlock your inner child- go to the arcade, a trampoline park (jump on your bed), go play laser tag! Sutekh is often seen as a ‘shadow work’ deity, as well, so unlocking your inner child can be a good way to heal parts of yourself that never got to be free and loud. You can also participate in different things like playing video games (play some CoD or Assassin’s Creed).

As a god associated with foreigners and foreign lands, it can be as simple as making new friends or going out to new places (restraints, parks, cities, states/countries). Put yourself out there and get out of your own comfort zone. Get out of the rut you may be in and do something different.

As a protector of Ra and leader of warriors, learn how to fight. Stick up for others and for yourself when you need it. Start working out, learn some self defense (watch some YouTube videos).

He also guided the deceased, and as a god of foreigners, help out others who may feel like they’re on the outskirts of society. Helping others is always a great devotional act, but it can be as simple as lending an ear to those who need it, listening and being there for them. Just remind them that they’re not alone- and just because they feel like they’re on the outskirts- it doesn’t make them any less valuable.

Signs

Imagery of the sha or even animals that look like the sha (anteaters, jackals, foxes, donkey, hyena). Sutekh is also associated with donkeys, pigs, flamingos, serpents, and hippopotamuses.

Sutekh is associated with the planet Mercury, the Great Bear constellation, and with sunsets. You may start feeling drawn to these or even see an increase in imagery. As well as imagery of royalty.

You may see an increase in storms in your area, or even earthquakes. He was connected to flash floods in the desert and his strength could cause the inundation. Speaking of his strength, you may feel a call to start working out and excising, as well.

You may feel an overwhelming heat surround you or a huge boost in confidence at random points in time.

"Expectations"

Seth is not a bad father, to be honest. Sure, maybe his kids run around with knives a little too often, and they are kinda off-putting and really like bones, but like they are very respected and kind at the end of the day. He didn't do too bad, ngl.

Wepwawet and Anubis (also known as Anpu) are Seth's children in my interpretation. And twins! (Size constancy is not my best...) they have no mother. Single father Seth 🙏

They didn't turn out exactly like how Seth was expecting... (I dont have the original image anymore 💀 sorry its crispy)

He's got special hair ladies. Somehow, they figured out how to tame his hair a bit.

Sets also catching up on the current gossip. Gotta know what those dang birds have been up too....

may justice prevail

Set Upon The Boat

Behold, my most well preforming drawing on my instagram AND reddit. This was a little personal project I decided to draw since I had never really attempted to make a creative piece with the Nejeru at this point. (The pieces I had drawn were all redraws from book of the dead)

This piece was inspired by a very specific depiction found below , titled "Set, upon the prow of the solar barque, repels Apophis from 21st Dynasty Book of the Dead".

"Now after a while he will turn his eye against Re, and a stoppage will occur in the Sacred Bark and a great vision among the crew, for he will swallow up seven cubits of the great waters; Seth will project a lance of iron against (Apep) and will make him vomit up all that he has swallowed."

𓆰𓅢 𝐁𝐨𝐧𝐞 𝐛𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐤 𝐛𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐭 𓅢𓆰

Moments before disaster.

The brothers, Osiris and Seth! They had a very competitive childhood but a tightknit friendship.

Once Osiris took over as pharoh, the relationship grew bitter as Seth caused problems for the kingdom in retaliation.

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Figured I'd give some design facts about why Osiris is a bull! I was given information by @/milky-rozen about an aspect of Osiris being a bull and i found out about Apis, a bull diety god who is associated with osiris and bam! Also this is pre-dead Osiris lol

Tiny chaos god

Made myself a little set figurine in the style of those little Anubis figures you find in every spiritual shop

Tanabata🎋💫

Just me rambling about the husbands of Nephthys

The belief that Nephthys was the wife of Set largely comes from the writings of the Greek author Plutarch. Plutarch was a prolific writer and a priest at Delphi who likely obtained his information about Egypt during his travels to Alexandria. Although he accurately recounts much of Egyptian mythology, his writings are influenced by his philosophical views. By the time Plutarch wrote in the 2nd century CE, religious traditions had begun to merge, especially in Alexandria, where the cult of Isis was extremely popular.

Plutarch recounts a story in which Osiris unknowingly fathers a child with Nephthys, believing she was his wife, Isis. Nephthys, afraid of her husband Set's reaction, abandons the child, and Isis later finds and raises him as Anubis, who becomes her guardian. Interestingly, Plutarch also refers to a tradition where Nut’s children have different fathers: Horus and Osiris are Ra's sons, Isis is Thoth's daughter, and Nephthys and Set are the only children born in wedlock with Geb. Wikipedia states that Horus the Elder is a form of Horus that is the son of Geb and Nut, but this is only partly true: This claim comes from Plutarch, but Plutarch also claims that Horus the Elder is a son of Osiris and Isis, conceived by Isis and Osiris in the womb of Nut, and then born alongside the other children. Essentially, Plutarch tried to explain the multiple origin stories of Horus by stating that Osiris and Isis had supposedly three sons, all named Horus, and early Egyptologists somehow accepted this explanation. According to Plutarch, the three half-brothers also have different hair colors: Osiris has black hair, Horus white, and Set red. Additionally, Plutarch recalls a festival where Egyptians insulted red-haired people to mock Set's power on Earth. This has nothing to do with Nephthys’ marriages, but it's too amusing not to mention.

Overall, Plutarch paints a rather negative picture of Nephthys: Not only is she an adulterous wife who cheats on her husband, but she also has nonconsensual sex with Osiris, abandons her child in the desert, and even betrays Isis by revealing where she is hiding with her dead husband and child to Set. Plutarch also refers to Nephthys as Aphrodite throughout the text.

While many early sources link Nephthys and Set as a couple, there is little concrete evidence from ancient Egyptian texts directly confirming their marriage. Osiris, Nephthys, Set, Horus, and Isis are the core figures in the Osiris myth, and they all interact with one another inside th myths, except for Nephthys and Set. However, they are paired in other contexts, such as in descriptions of the Ennead. For example, in the Pyramid Texts, Nephthys and Set are paired together for specific roles, but they are not explicitly called a married couple. Some texts from later periods refer to Nephthys as Set’s wife, or mention Set having a wife, though these accounts are often times ambiguous and don't firmly establish this as a widespread early tradition. Therefore the tradition reported by Plutarch, in which Nephthys is the mother of Anubis by Osiris, finds little support in indigenous Egyptian sources, though it was likely not entirely invented by him.

As far as I can tell, we currently have no Ancient Egyptian texts that name Nephthys as Anubis’ mother, either by Set or Osiris. I know Wikipedia lists Anubis and Wepwawet as sons of Nephthys and Set, but no actual source is given for this information. Anubis is sometimes regarded as the son of Nephthys and Ra, though. The only real Egyptian source for Nephthys abandoning Anubis that I could find is in the Papyrus Jumilhac (“Nephthys, her bravery existed with him [Horus]. She had him [Horus] hidden as a small child in papyrus. His name is Anubis and his image is as Mehit-imyut.”). However, we should note that it is unclear whether Nephthys hid her son Horus-Anubis as Isis hid her child, or if she helps Isis hide the baby Horus-Anubis. In this text, Nephthys hiding her child is framed positively, not as the action of an adulterous woman abandoning her illegitimate child for selfish reasons.

Nephthys was sometimes regarded as Osiris’ wife in the underworld, just as Isis was on earth. Osiris and Nephthys are depicted as a couple in some contexts, as seen in the statue of Ramose from the Louvre (E 16378). Nephthys is sometimes given the title Onnophret, the feminine form of the Osirian epithet Onnophris or wn.nfr, meaning "the beautiful existent."

Interestingly, an erotic spell from the 4th century, mostly written in Greek with some Old Coptic passages, tells the story of how Isis goes to Thoth (specifically identified as her father in this version) and tells him about Osiris sleeping with Nephthys. Thoth then gives her a love spell to win Osiris back. However, it is unclear whether Isis is upset about Osiris taking a lover or a second wife. Alternatively, Nephthys could even be Osiris' first wife in this scenario, with Isis as the jealous sister.

There is one text I found that names Nephthys and Set as a married couple within the context of the Osiris myth. It's called the Ptolemaic Berlin Papyrus 8278, and it contains a story that goes as follows:

The first nine lines of Pap. Berlin P. 8278 are quite damaged. However, the main topic is the expulsion of Set from Egypt. The first readable paragraph tells how Set will be kept away from Egypt for the rest of his life. The text refers to him as a donkey, which is a very late interpretation of the Set animal. Then, there is a dialogue between the men of Horus and the men of Set. They discuss the punishment inflicted on Set. The men of Set would like the men of Horus to set him free. Set is described as copulating, drunk, and dead of thirst. From an explanatory gloss, we learn that Set went to an oasis with the Eye of Horus and swallowed it, leading to his drunkenness. Then, an unidentified speaker states that he has shown the way to Horus. After this, the god Thoth insists that Set is drunk and accuses him of harming Osiris. It is mentioned that Set "has been seized" and "has failed." All the gods start speaking to him, pointing out his failure. Finally, it is Isis’ turn to insult Set. She accuses him of taking water "in his own hand" (an explanatory gloss equates water with Osiris). Set is called "camel, pig, hippopotamus," and "the Failed One." Set speaks for the first time but avoids the accusations, instead lamenting his failed attempt to have anal sex with Nephthys, likely due to his drunken state. He recalls grabbing Nephthys' tail and trying to copulate with her ("Voice of Set: [The] female donkey was taken when I was seizing her tail. I was given deceit… Nephthys was taken when I was on her anus… although she belongs to me as a wife").

Nephthys was also sometimes regarded as Horus' wife, as seen in the magical stela of Nesamun ("All fertile lands, all deserts, all mountains, and all waters and what is in them are united under the feet of Horus, son of Osiris, with whom Isis was pregnant and with whom Nephthys is married. May they dispel your feverish heat, may they remove your inner restlessness."). Papyrus Ramesseum IV even speaks of an unnamed daughter of Horus and Nephthys ("Hemen slept with his mother Isis after he had impregnated his aunt Nephthys with a daughter").

Guess who started working on a 3D model of the typhonic animal of Seth for printing :D

Work im Progress

No one:

Seth:

My take on Set’s fursona. I like the idea of his insides being cooler than his outsides.  Socials

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Set 𓁣

I just think he’s really cool 🫣

Day 5 - Set

God of chaos

Set Redraw

ERMMMM

why is there no art of Ash???????

anyways here's art of Ash and Set

I really love sharks… 

Felt like drawing Salmon Sharks today.

The big one

Whale shark - Maldives, South Atoll “Suadiva”.

Photographer: Giacomo Marchione

INTERNATIONAL PHOTOGRAPHY AWARDS™

White-footed fox, a subspecies of the red fox, at the London Zoo By: Unknown photographer From: London Zoo: A Series of Fifty Real Photograps 1920s

The Quizzer Book of Knowledge: Nature. Written and edited by George Beal. 1978.

Internet Archive

Yellow Footed Rock Wallaby (Petrogale xanthropus) - 

Adapted for life on the dry, rocky outcrops of Southern Australia and South New Wales, this small, tri-colored wallaby only stands about 2 feet tall.  Their long tails and large, gripping feet make them excellent at jumping and maneuvering their rocky homes.

These little marsupials used to run the hills of Australia.  But due to pelt hunting and overpopulation of foxes and goats, they have been pushed to the southern regions of Australia.  A large part of their population is in protected and private land.  However since wallabies and kangaroos have the ability to freeze pregnancy, they can always be carrying young.  They also have food that is harder to reach for other grazers, so their numbers are hovering.  Currently, they are listed as vulnerable. 

Photos: (top) (bottom left) (bottom right)

A juvenile Yellow-Footed Rock Wallaby (Petrogale xanthopus) in Flinders Rangers, South Australia

by Julian Robinson

Thylacine photo studies. We miss you, tassie tigers.

Whale shark

Night Hunt by John Brosio

Rare footage of an Eastern black rhinoceros [ Diceros bicornis michaeli ] and her calf, taken in the 1950s in Amboseli National Park, Kenya. The rhino, known as “Gertie”, had a horn that measured nearly 4ft in length before breaking off naturally sometime in the 1960s, possibly during a fight with another rhino.

The demand for rhinoceros horn has made sights such as this exceedingly rare. As of 1992, only 2 rhinos were left in Amboseli National Park, where the animal is now considered locally extinct, while the subspecies as a whole is listed as critically endangered.

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