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character. The Horus born to Isis was known as both Horus the Child and Horus the
Son of Isis. The son of Isis was born lame and struggled in the womb with Set. A third
Horus, known as Horus the Elder, was also brother to Osiris and Set but he was born
before Set and fought with him constantly. Plutarch’s account has appearances by all
three Horuses, each in a separate identity.
The god Set also had two inconsistent identities merged into one character. The
one Set defended Re against Aphophis, the serpent that tried to devour the sun at the
end of the day; the other was thought to be Aphophis. One of the main images of Set
in Egyptian art shows him as a red-haired donkey-like beast and on many occasions
reddish donkeys were symbolically identified with Set. In The Contendings of Horus and
Set, the red-haired deity appears as the defender of Re and he is Re’s favorite to succeed
Osiris. Isis, however, supports the claim of her son Horus and uses trickery and magic
to aid the child.
As we look at the patriarchal history, we will see, just as we did with the Creation
myths, that while the biblical editors transformed gods into humans to eliminate the
image of the underlying deity, they occasionally forgot to remove some of the physical
characteristics that belonged to the original deity.