Set, also known as Seth and Suetekh, was the Egyptian god of war, chaos, and storms, brother of Osiris, Isis, and Horus the Elder, uncle to Horus the Younger, and brother-husband to Nephthys. His other consort was the goddess Tawaret, a hippo-headed deity who presided over fertility and childbirth.
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c. 3150 BCE - c. 2613 BCESet is worshiped as a hero-god during Early Dynastic Period of Egypt.
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1570 BCE - 1069 BCESet is firmly associated with the Osiris Myth as murderer and usurper during the New Kingdom Period in Egypt.