...who's most notable feature/story/legend involved the betrayal of a more powful god, or that did something ultimately resulting in the death of a more prominent god(ess) or his/her child?
I'm sure there was, but some names and more detail would be nice. It's not terribly important, I'm just trying to get a name for one of my characters.
I know, it's cheezy to name your characters for what they do to the plot. But I want this chracter to have a name with bad vibes, and I'm not exactly an ancient Egyptian. ^^;
(It takes place in the future when "old-Earth" gods are common names, so don't worry. I wouldn't have Horus and Thor running around Green Valley High School or anything like that.)
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oct. 2, 2007 - 21 23
Are you thinking of the story of Set(h) killing his brother Osiris?
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oct. 3, 2007 - 00 08
Because I have too many myths rushing through my head, and I love ancient Egypt, I'll expand on the above, and add in a few others.
Set was tired of his brother Osiris getting all the glory. He constructed a wooden box to Osiris' exact measurements and decorated it splendidly. He went to a party Osiris and Isis were hosting and proposed that the one who would fit in the box could keep it. Everyone tried to get in and it was either too big or two small. Finally Osiris tried and Set snapped the lid shut, trapping his brother.
The box was thrown into the Nile. It floated downstream, where it landed on the west bank. A tree grew over the box, hiding it from sight. A king cut down the tree to use as a column, and the box was discovered. Set was irate and cut the body up into many tiny pieces. Isis gathered Anubis, Nephthys and Thoth together, and the four of them went in search for the pieces. They found all but one, which was eaten by a fish. The four of them brought him back to life. He became the king of the Underworld.
Horus was born after Osiris' death. He took his revenge on his Uncle Set. Both lost an eye. Ra intervened and decreed that both were wrong. Both were punished for attemptiong to kill family. Thus Horus/Set could be used in this example as well.
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oct. 3, 2007 - 07 34
Seth was trying to seize the throne after Osiris was imprisoned in the box.
A king cut down the tree to use as a column...
And Isis heard about the box being found and went out there and got the box from the kind and took Osiris's body back to Egypt where she tried to revive him by turning herself into a golden kite and flying over his body. Isis was only able to reanimate part of his body (guess which part?) and used it to concieve Horus. Set found the body and cut it into piece and his man pieces were eaten buy a fish.
Isis collected the pieces and put him back together and he ruled in the underworld while Isis the Queen of Egypt allowed her son Horus to take the throne in the place of Osiris.
Although there are several versions of this myth.
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oct. 3, 2007 - 14 09
The Horus and Set story fits perfectly, thank you! :'D
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oct. 3, 2007 - 21 31
I see you've got an answer...
There's also Sekhmet who was created to destroy and got out of control. The gods tricked her to calm her and she was never the same. If you need more, let me know. :)
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oct. 4, 2007 - 04 10
Haha, I forgot her! Wasn't Hathor transformed into someone to stop her?
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oct. 4, 2007 - 04 27
I believe the story being referred to is the one where Sekhmet is used as a destroyer to bring mankind back into line (very basically!). She develops a taste for human blood and cannot be stopped from slaughtering. The other gods flood the fields with beer, disguised as blood. Sekhmet becomes drunk on the beer and it pacifies her. The slaughter stops.
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oct. 4, 2007 - 04 27
I believe the story being referred to is the one where Sekhmet is used as a destroyer to bring mankind back into line (very basically!). She develops a taste for human blood and cannot be stopped from slaughtering. The other gods flood the fields with beer, disguised as blood. Sekhmet becomes drunk on the beer and it pacifies her. The slaughter stops.
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oct. 4, 2007 - 08 05
What Shayi said. :) I believe it was Ra who had her created to destroy...she's also known as the eye of Ra.
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oct. 10, 2007 - 19 13
An alternate telling of this story, and additional information:
After her tears cause the Nile to overflow, Isis searched, alone, for the body of her husband. She traveled to Phoenecia and was hired as a nursemaid to the prince. She loved him and tried to make him a god, but the mother interrupted and the spell was never completed. Isis confessed her identity and told the queen her story, who revealed that the god Osiris was encased in the tree in the center of the kingdom. Isis took him back home and buried his body in the mud of the river.
One night, while hunting, Set discovered his body and chopped him into 14 pieces, which he scattered. The phallus was eaten by a crocodile. She found only 13 pieces and fashioned a new phallus out of gold and honey and something else, i do not recall exactly. She reformed his body and, with their sister Nepthys, performed the Ritual of the Dead. Isis conceives his child after reviving her husband. Osiris knows that with a child, his beloved wife will no longer be lonely. He becomes the god of the dead and sleeping.
Another story of betrayal involves Isis and her grandfather, Ra. Ra was, at one time, the most powerful of all the gods and goddesses. Unfortunately, he was cruel and uncaring. Isis, who was loved and revered by the people, used Ra's saliva and mixed it with mud to create an anp, which bit and poisoned him. Isis offered to heal him, and Ra consented, but to heal him she said she had to speak his "secret name." He whispered it to her, she spoke it, and he was healed, but in speaking his secret name, she stole his power over life and death and the both the material and immaterial planes. She became the most powerful goddess.
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THERE WAS!!!! THE GOD OF THE UNDERGROUND!!! i just can't remeber his name but i know he pissed of Osis and he had to go a live in the pits THAT IS IT!!! Set!!!! hope that helps!!
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