I am the god of the desert. I am viewed as immensely powerful, and am regarded consequently as the chief god. I carry the epithet, "His Majesty", shared only with Ra. Another common epithet was, of great of strength, and in one of the Pyramid Texts it states that the queen's weaknesses is that of Set. As chief god, I am patron of Upper Egypt (in the South- upstream), where he was worshiped, most notably at Ombos. The alternate form of my name, spelled Setesh (st,,), and later Sutekh (swt?), designates this supremacy, the extra sh and kh signifying majesty.I formed part of the Ennead of Heliopolis, as a son of the earth (Geb) and sky (Nut), husband to the fertile land around the Nile (Nebt-het/Nephthys), and brother to death (Usir/Osiris), and life (Aset/Isis), and father of Anubis.The word for desert, in Egyptian, was Desheret, which is very similar to the word for red, Desher (in fact, it has the appearance of a feminine form of the word for red). Consequently, I became associated with things that were red, including people with red hair, which is not an attribute that Egyptians generally had, and so I became considered to also be a god of foreigners.[citation needed]My attributes as desert god led to me also being associated with gazelles, and donkeys, both creatures living on the desert edge. Since sandstorms are under my control as lord of the desert, and were the main form of storm in the dry climate of Egypt, during the Ramesside Period, I am identified as various Canaanite storm deities, including Baal.I am regarded as a fierce warrior. It was me who protected Ra on the solar barque, slaying the chaos serpent, Apep each day to allow the sun to rise. Combined with an association with the destructive and irresistible power of storms and the desert, I became the patron deity of soldiers, who often wore my amulets, hoping to acquire similar destructive force, or my infinite protection.
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