(Also spelled Set) In Egyptian mythology he is the god of night, the desert, and all the evil. He was the murderer of Osiris, and is portrayed as a grotesque animal. From the homosexual union between Seth and Horus, was born the god Thoth.

During the pharoanic period Set was god of man-to-man sex as well as of individuality. He was depitcted in different forms - sometimes as a gender-variant male and sometimes as a red or white-skinned man with the head of a dog, the body of a greyhound and a long forked tail. His birthday was celebrated on July 16th.

Originally he was, according to legend, given Upper Egypt to rule while his handsome brother (or sometimes it's said his nephew) Horus ruled over Lower Egypt. After the reunification the two gods were frequently depicted as a couple with the symbol of unity between them. There is also a clear implication of a homosexual relationship and in one myth Set gives birth to Horus' child, Thoth.

According to one myth, Set attempts to disgrace Horus by being the active partner in sex with him, but on his mother's advice Horus catches Set's semen in his hand and takes it to his mother who puts it on Set's favourite food - lettuce - which Set then unknowlingly eats. Set, thinking his semen is inside Horus calls the judges and askes them to determine who it is who has been impregnated. Much to his surprise when the judges call forth the semen it responds from his own stomach disgracing himself and exonerating Horus.

Another legend has it that Set tried to rape Horus, and that for several days that two battled, transformed into hippopotami in the Nile. Set tore out Horus' eye but Horus ripped off Set's penis. Eventually, however, after the intervention of Thoth, the monkey-like god of wisdom, the two god's were reconciled.

The legendary sexual struggle and eventual reconciliation between the two gods are viewed by historians as allegories for the fighting between upper and lower Egypt which finally led to the country unifying around 3000 BC.