Omg I’d love to hear what you’d say about Set and HSA ‘s relationship! If you’re willing to share. :D I’m pretty sure HSA is the “Horus” I’ve interacted with and makes up Antewy with Set. For me at least. :D

smarmykemeticpagan:

Here’s a post I made about them a while ago!

And some further UPG as inspired by the post about Set and Heru-Wer: I agree that HSA, while still a war god in his own right, is more centered around kingship, society, rightful authority, and the ideals of righteousness or ma’at in theory and in practice. He likes for things to be pretty, symmetrical, in a word, nice. This is contrast, but also in harmony, with Set’s balls-to-the-wall, pragmatic, and sometimes lackadaisical (as Heru would put it, “irresponsible”) attitude and approach. When they’re together they’re often disagreeing, but I’ve heard them come to be convinced by the other as often as, if not more often than, I’ve heard them just devolve into more and more heated argument and testosterone-laden belligerent sexual tension. They have the potential to even each other out very well, Heru keeping Set from going ‘too far’, and Set pushing Heru to consider different or more extreme ideas or measures than Heru may be willing to on his own. Together they create balance, an attitude or entity (in the case of Antywey) that is the ‘master of both worlds’, able and willing to respond to any situation with the needed order or chaos, or both.

Their personal relationship, as far as I’ve seen it, is dynamic and fluid. It could be because they’re my patrons and my primary “role” in kemetic practice is all about their relationship, their myths, their rituals and so on, so I see several different versions of them. I’ve felt their deep hate for each other based on differences that can feel irreconcilable, based on the horrible things they did to one another over the years. I’ve felt Set’s guilt for taking so much from Heru, his defiance about his choices and why he made them despite the pain they’ve caused, his affection for Heru, his admiration for the things Heru can do or understand better than he can, his frustration with the ways in which he’s subjugated to Heru, his sense of competition and enjoyment of that competition. And I’ve felt many of the same emotions toward Set, from HSA (likely because in many ways, Set was my first real enemy too, and is now one of my two closest friends/allies as my patron, much the same way that HSA is eventually reconciled and even syncretized with Set).

They hate each other, they love each other, they’re always at each other’s throats and always trying to support the other, in their own weird way. I’ve definitely always felt that they both understand each other in some ways better than anyone else can, simply by virtue of having spent so long fighting -seeing one another at their cruelest, their most vicious, weakest and most desperate- and finding ways to reconcile and settle their differences when necessary, even looking at each other with softness at times. It just depends on the time of day, lol.

10/10. This is perfect.