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Published: 2005-04-29 22:29:05 +0000 UTC; Views: 14516; Favourites: 284; Downloads: 468
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A small painting of my favorite deity - Set (Seth Sutekh ) the Egyptian god of storms, the desert, power and chaos.A very double-natured god; a force of both destruction as well as being the sun god's guardian, using his destructive power in the service of light.
Love him.
This painting is currently for sale on: eBay!
Media used: Acrylics on canvasboard, Derwent colored pencils, touch-ups in Corel Photopaint 9 with Wacom Graphire 3 tablet.
Image © Silvestris (me) and may NOT be used without permission.
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It's called "the set animal", Sha or typhonic beast. It's most likely mythical, although there are those who claim it's a real animal.
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I love your art. Set is my patron. I have been fascinated by him and everything Egyptian for years.
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I'm glad you like it.
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This is beautiful. He too is my favorite diety. Amazing art keep it coming. Many blessings
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This is the most beautiful painting of Set that I have ever seen. Brilliantly executed!
Jay
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I'm guessing this is his peaceful state of mind right now?Great art by the way!
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Set makes a great antagonist of the Egyptian myth. His animal head looks like a cross between a donkey and an aardvark or anteater. This pic is fabulous and great, and I'll bet he could take on Horus any day.
When I once drew Set, I made him in a human form, but I think I got him looking too much like Fat Albert from Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids, mainly due to the fact that Set is an African god. Another thing about my pic of Set was that the lips and face looked too plump which made him look like Fat Albert.
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Love him too! 
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I love this picture it is very beautiful! Your a wonderful artist.
It's a more positive depiction of Seth. Thou, not to fond of comments referring to him as the incarnate of evil. Seth is very ancient god representing nature's most powerful forces associated with region of the nile. Patron of the military and soldiers. Was scepters are modeled after Seth. Apep is the one that was associated with evil. It's the Osiris cult (conflict with upper and lower), and the occupation of egypt by foreigners (which seth represented),that demonized the deity. The Hykos people choose Seth as their supreme deity because he best represented Baal Hadad, their cheif god.(also god of storms)This caused the egyptians to hate him due to their occupation and wars with these invaders.
Poisidon/ Zeus, and Teshub are also Seth's parallels. I also like note the fact most storm deities later became the subject of evil to monotheist belief, and as you notice, the forked tail the trident,ect all represent satan.
Despite all this I am glad to see some people see him for who he truly is and more in positive light.
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I love Set! He's my fave evil god! Well done great job!
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This is the most detailed portrait of Sutekh I've ever seen. Very well done!
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I always think of him as the god of destruction who clears the way for the new. And the god of storms. You caught the storm aspect more I think as the background looks like the lead up to a tornado.
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very nice. Set is my favourite deity too!
beautiful picture, I'd buy it if I could...
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Very amazing portrait of Seth... I like the god of chaos and your picture give hima lot strength.
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Wow so amazing paint of Setesh... not so angry and evil...
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I love that he is very dualistic - both destructive and protective. It's what makes him such a fascinating deity.
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Awesome, someone who knows about Set's good side! I love him too. Such an interesting character.
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Set is my favorite deity in the Egyptian pantheon, just because his delicate balance between light and dark, good and evil. Absolutely intriguing.
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Agreed. I'm using him as a main character in a comic, for that very reason. He's under appreciated for how dynamic and important his part in the mythology is.
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OMG! I love him! That is one of the most beautiful Set pictures that I have seen yet. I love him.
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Hi! I swear I know you from somewhere...
Anyhow, great to see a good portrayal of Set... he's too often cast as evil.
Great job!!!
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I'm all over the place. X)
Thank you. Set is my favorite Egyptian god by far, much because he's so interestingly poised between good and evil.
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Oh you don't know the half of it.
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seth is mainly the god of the death,evilness and king of the underworld in addition for what you sayed...
i like the draw,the tecnique fits here very well,i think that this draw is very close to perfaction...
keep it up,i will apritiate if you will come over my gallery and give me yoar opinion about my draws.
have a nice day!
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Well, no - Osiris, Set's brother, is the god of death and the underworld. To some extent Anubis as well. But Set is more a force of chaos and destruction than associated with death.
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well,maybe,i dont shure.
but,anubis is definatly not the god of death...anubis job is to show the soul the way from the corps to the next world.
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Which in sense is death - Anubis is also the god of mummification. The very reason he's depicted with a jackal's head is because he was connected to and probably inspired by the jackals that haunted the necropolis; a symbol of his connection to the dead. And Osiris was the ruler of the underworld, lord of the dead.
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seth RULES!!!! most favd gods of all mythology! rock on! this pick is pure open mike jazzfest!!! you rock the most hardest of core! please do more seth stuff you so good at it!
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seth is your favourite deity? I'll remember that my dear inspiration
great job!
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It's been a while since I've seen a Set from you
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I've been so busy with other things.. But they happen, every once in a while.
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*just dies from t3h g00dness*
I love the colours you used. I also like the semi-smoke-ish effect. If I wan't broke, I'd buy it in a second. You really gotta do more egyptian stuff casue I luffs it.
And I'll have to join in the Set love. My favourite Egyptian myth ever.
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That is really awesome. This strikes me because I love how very textured your painting is on this. A different style for you, because your stuff has always been so smooth in the past.
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