World at War / Conflicts / Egyptian Myth
Wars of the Two Lands
Contendings of Horus and Set
3050–2970 BC
Egypt
Status: ended
Casualties: Osiris dismembered (precursor); both contenders maimed
Eighty years of contests before the divine tribunal for the throne of Egypt. Set tore out Horus's eye; Horus tore off Set's testicles. They raced in stone boats; Set's of true stone sank. At last Osiris ruled the dead, Horus the living, and Set was given the deserts and the storm. The Contendings of Horus and Set, Papyrus Chester Beatty I.
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Belligerents
- Horus the falcon
- Set the red-haired
Casualties
Osiris dismembered (precursor); both contenders maimed
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