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right to succeed Osiris as king of Egypt. The council of gods served as judges. The
document brings together several tales that record older myths.
At one point in the contest, Isis, mother of Horus the Child, had convinced everybody
but Re, chief deity of the gods, that her son Horus should be the king. Set
became angry and declared he would not follow any decision by a tribunal that
included Isis. Re directed the gods to reassemble at a place called the“Isle in the Middle”
and told the ferryman not to let Isis or anyone who looks like her come across.
The goddess disguised herself as an old hag and told the ferryman that she had a
bowl of porridge for the hungry young man who had been tending cattle. Her costume
fooled the ferryman and he took her across to the island. When she landed, she
saw Set and transformed herself into a beautiful woman.
Set, his lust aroused, approached her. When he came to her she told him a tale of
woe. Her husband, she said, had been a cattleman by whom she had a son. The husband
died and the son tended the cattle, but a stranger came into the stable and threatened
to beat up the child, take the cattle, and evict the child. Isis concluded by asking
Set for his protection.
“Is it while the son of the male is still living,” replied Set,“that the cattle are to be
given to the stranger?”These words by Set indicated that the rule of law should be that
the son has a stronger claim to a father’s property than does a stranger. What he didn’t
realize as he said these words, was that he was also describing the legal conflict between
himself and Horus the Child for the right to rule Egypt. Horus the Child was son of
Osiris, the prior king, and the title was a form of property that should go to his heir, his
son, not a rival. Set was acting like the bully in the story told by Isis.
Immediately after these words escaped Set’s lips, Isis transformed herself into a
bird and called out that Set’s own words did him in. When Re heard what Set said, he
declared that Horus must become king. But Set was not a gracious loser and refused
to abide by the declaration. More tests, tricks, and deceptions were yet to come.
This Egyptian tale sets forth essentially the same story as the Bible. The head of
the clan favored the older claimant, the mother favored her son; the older son traveled
away from the home before the blessing was to be given; the mother found out about
the plan to bestow the blessing; the mother arranged for a bowl of food to be carried