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empty!” With that, Ra stormed off to be alone - pre-
sumably this is a story about a solar eclipse - and
refused to join the other gods. Realizing that they’d
gone too far, the others sent Baba away, but still Ra
refused to stop sulking. Finally, Hathor decided on a
plan. She went into Ra’s presence and stood before
him and started to dance and strip, revealing her
nakedness and lewdly showing him her private parts.
The dance caused Ra to laugh, forget his hurt feelings
and he once again rejoined the gods.
Nut and Geb
Nut, the goddess of the night sky, and her brother
Geb, the god of the earth, were originally thought to
be in a constant state of love making. Ra grew angry
with his grandchildren, and commanded their father
Shu to separate the two lovers. The god of the air
took his place, and trampled on the ithyphallic Geb,
and lifted Nut high into the air. Nut was found to be
pregnant, and was then cursed by Ra - she would
never be able to bear her children on any month of
the 360 day year. Thoth managed to win a game
against Khonsu, god of the moon, and used some of
the light of the moon to create five extra days (making
the year 365 days). During those days Nut gave birth
to her five children - Isis, Osiris, Nephthys, Set and
Horus the Elder (not to be confused with Horus, the
child of Isis and Osiris).
Nephthys and Osiris
Some tales of sex and the Egyptian gods is on the
seamier side - one of the reasons given as to why Set
and Osiris hate each other was because of Nephthys,
Set’s sister-wife. She was barren (she represented
the desert, as did Set), and she hit on the plan of
disguising herself as Isis and seducing Osiris. Getting
Osiris drunk, Nephthys took Osiris to her bed, and the
two had drunken sex together. Osiris dropped his gar-
land of melilot flowers in the act of passion. Set found
the adulterous goddess and the flowers, and knowing
who the flowers belonged to, he began to plan Osiris’
death. The child of this union was thought to be Anu-
bis, god of mummification.
Now as the overflowing of the Nile are
sometimes very great, and extend to
the boundaries of the land, this gave
rise to the story of the secret inter-
course between Osiris and Nephthys,
as the natural consequence of so
great an inundation would be the
springing up of plants in those parts
of the country which were formerly
barren.
-- Wilkinson, J.G. 1841,
Manners and
Customs of the Ancient Egyptians
, p.
334
Isis and Osiris
After his first attempt, Set managed to kill Osiris again
and cut up his body into numerous parts. These parts
Set spread all over Egypt. Isis, Nephthys and Anubis
searched Egypt, and managed to retrieve all of the
pieces of the body, except one - Osiris’ phallus. Set
had dropped the penis into the Nile (making it fertile),
where it was eaten by a fish. The god and goddesses
pieced Osiris together and created the first mum-
my. Using her magic, Isis fashioned a replacement
for Osiris’ missing part, either out of clay, wood or
gold, and attached this to her dead husband’s body.
Through magical spells, life was breathed back into
Osiris’ body (though some dispute this and believe
that Osiris was dead at the time)... The goddess
managed to share a time of passion with her husband
who impregnating her with their child, Horus. Osiris
then passed into the afterlife, becoming god of the
dead. This part of the mythos borders on necrophilia!
Horus and Set
Then Set
said to
Horus:
“Come,
let
us
have a feast
day at
my
house.” And Horus said
to him: “I will, I will.”
Now when evening
had come, a bed
was prepared
for
them, and they lay
down
together. At night, Set
let
his member become
stiff, and
he inserted it between the thighs of
Horus. And Horus placed his hand
between his thighs and caught the
semen of Set.
-- Houlihan, P.F. 2001,
Wit & Humor in
Ancient Egypt
, p. 121
After Osiris’ eventual death, while Horus was
growing up and planning his own revenge, Set and
Horus engaged in a homosexual relationship. In
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