The Arcana of Freemasonry (1915) - The Masonic Trowel

88 THE ARCANA OF FREEMASONRY
King is sacrificing and doing homage, and Horus
is pouring out life and power over the King. The
fact that we find Sut here as one of the great Gods,
is a proof that he was considered and looked upon
at the earliest period of their mythology as at least
a brother to Horus, and that now Horus was
primary. The myth had shifted, or changed
places,
the domain of Paradise from the South to
the North, and the great fight between Horus and
Sut had not yet come into being. There can be no
doubt that the primary part of the Mythos was first
evolved at the Lakes at the head of the Nile when
the Southern Pole Star was most predominant.
The different names of Set taken by Kings which
we find on the oldest monuments, some of which
have been obliterated and Horus and Osiris sub-
stituted, prove this, as well as the Pyramids and
the Ritual. On later monuments we find that the
great contest had been worked out in their myth-
ology, and his name is then found Apap (the
Great Giant, the Great Evil Serpent). In the
Book of the Ritual he is also called Baba— the
Beast (ch. xc. 17, 66, 67) — and the struggle of
Horus and Sut is mentioned in the Ritual (ch. viii.
17, 9, 25), "The day of battle between Horus
and Sut." Thus these old forefathers of ours had
first worked out their Paradise in the Southern
Hemisphere, and then as they came North, and a
general amalgamation of the attributes took place,