Norse
Odin
wisdom, poetry, war
Seth
Egyptian tradition. See the whole pantheon.
- Domains
- storm, desert, chaos, foreign lands
- Symbols and attributes
- The Seth animal, of uncertain identity
- Partner
- Nephthys
Key myth
He killed Osiris and contested Horus's inheritance. In other texts he guards the solar barque and kills the serpent Apep, so he is not simply an evil figure.
Where sources differ or caution applies. His fortunes changed: protector of kings in the New Kingdom, demonised in the Late Period.
Place in the family graph
More traditions
Elsewhere in the world
Deities in other traditions who share a theme with Seth: war and fighting, sky, storm and thunder, trickery, boundaries and travel. This is overlap in one area only.