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Myths of the Founders 153
The Egyptian story of The Contendings of Horus and Set sets forth a series of events
concerning the contest between Horus and Set for the throne. In the discussion of
Myth #55 we saw that the biblical account of how Jacob tricked Esau out of his
birthright and blessing shared several similarities with one of the episodes in that story,
the one where Isis disguised herself and carried a bowl of food to Set.
As the Egyptian story continued, there came a point when Re, the chief deity, fed
up with the continued complaints, directed Horus and Set to stop feuding and to eat
together. Set agreed and invited Horus to a feast but he had other purposes in mind.
After Horus visited, ate, and fell asleep, Set sexually abused him. For some legal reason,
if Set could show this, he would become king instead of Horus.
When Horus learned what Set had done to him, he went to his mother for help.
Utilizing her magical skills, she made it appear to the council of gods that Horus
abused Set rather than the other way around.
In Genesis, with Jacob and Esau in the roles of Horus and Set, a similar scenario
started to develop. When Jacob returned to Canaan, he sought out Esau to make
peace. Esau (after the incident where Jacob wrestled with the stranger) invited Jacob
and his family to come back with him for a feast. Jacob, suspicious of his brother’s
motives, told Esau to go on and he would follow after. Instead, he skipped out of town
and brought his family to Shechem. Strangely, the Bible says nothing further about
Esau’s reaction to being left in the lurch.
If the Genesis account were truly following the Egyptian storyline, Jacob should
have followed Esau to his home and Esau would later subject his brother to some sort
of sexual abuse. That scene doesn’t occur in Genesis, but at the very point where we
would expect such a story, the narrative shifts to another scene of sexual abuse, in
which the son of Hamor, king of Shechem, raped Jacob’s daughter Dinah. Given the
narrative context, it shouldn’t be too surprising to discover that the name Hamor has
the meaning of a“red ass,” the very image associated with Set.
In the biblical story, after the son of Hamor raped Dinah, he asked his father to
arrange a marriage. Hamor proposed to Jacob that the children of both families intermarry.
Jacob’s sons, Simeon and Levi, replied that the Israelites would go along with
the marriage if the Shechemite males all agreed to be circumcised. The Shechemites