Egyptian Mythology: Daily Life of the Desert God

Chapter 40 Sekhmet’s Letter
Sighing, Seth collected himself and suppressed unnecessary thoughts.

Ask Sobek's mother for help.

This matter can be postponed temporarily until the divine council is convened.

He must find the reeds, cleanse the curse of human authority, and then merge the authority.

Otherwise, after the divine meeting, he will be weakened or even seriously injured due to the excessive loss of desert authority.

After briefly replying to Hathor with a few words of concern, Set went to the edge of the desert and waited for night to fall.

During this period, Isis, Osiris, and Nephthys all sent letters to comfort Seth.

They heard the news that the god Ra held a divine council with the purpose of making Set abandon the desert territory.

More than that, Isis said, there was a god sneaking past Shu.

Telling the god Ra that Set was preventing the gods from blessing humans and increasing their numbers.

This led to this divine discussion.

Isis is investigating who.

After finding out, I will tell Seth.

Seth dismissed a few letters, but he wasn't too angry.

Instead, he was thinking about who could do such a thing.

After thinking for a while, Seth had more than 500 suspected gods in his mind.

Seth was originally cold and domineering, and there were many gods who loved Nephthys.

He has had conflicts with many gods.

Those gods were no match for Set, the main god, and were only beaten unilaterally.

All in all, the number of people who had a grudge against him was over five hundred.

If we investigate carefully, this number may grow to a thousand.

Just forget it, don’t think about it anymore.

"Let's leave this matter to sister to investigate." Seth sighed and said helplessly.

After that, Seth wrote a letter to Osiris.

It expresses gratitude to Isis and Osiris.

Then he asked Osiris for help to find out who was plotting against him.

The reason why Seth wrote to Osiris was because he was worried that Osiris would be seduced by Nephthys while Isis was busy.

Isis was very kind to him, and he didn't want Isis to be sad.

Afterwards, Set responded to Nephthys' concern carefully.

The words are carefully chosen to express the gratitude between brother and sister.

Incidentally, at the end of the letter, I mentioned that Sono, the God of Lapis Lazuli, is good.

Lapis lazuli is used in the Weseh ornaments favored by the gods.

Lapis lazuli was also used in frescoes, papyrus paintings, and other dyeings.

As a result, Lapis Lazuli is also very popular among the gods.

Then this series of sacred text turned into yellow sand and flew away.

Afterwards, Seth continued to wait for the night to fall.

However, as the night approached, Seth saw a lioness with her body burning with fire running from the void in the distance.

The lioness is strong and strong, and her brown pupils are full of fighting spirit.

Seth watched in surprise as the lioness arrived.

The lioness came to a stop in front of Set, looking well-behaved.

"This letter looks really unique..." Seth was helpless.

The letters from the gods are all small and delicate in appearance.

The body shape of the lioness is reproduced one to one, which really fits Sekhmet's character.

He reached out and touched the lioness. In an instant, the lioness spoke a series of words from the holy book.

After reading it roughly, Seth felt a little headache.

Sekhmet also heard the reason behind the convening of the Divine Council.

She first expressed regret that her authority had been lost.

Then he proposed that he would like to have a fight with Seth while Seth's authority was intact.

If Set agrees, Sekhmet will come to the desert to find him.

Seth had no interest in fighting.

However, Sekhmet is a strange god.

He is clearly not the god of war, but he loves fighting.

The clear letter rejected Sekhmet, and the night Sekhmet had been waiting for came again.

However, Seth was not in a hurry.

Instead, he waited for the sun in place before setting off for the underworld.

Entering the underworld via the River Styx, even though Set was already waiting in the desert near the River Styx. But it still took three suns to enter the underworld.

Seth used his divine power to isolate the breath of death from the underworld, and then flew into the depths of the underworld.

After reaching the farthest point of the Yellow Sand Giant Bird No. 1 search last night, Seth released a thousand Yellow Sand Giant Birds.

"Search the reedbeds."

"Yes, Master!" The giant yellow sand birds shouted in unison.

Then they searched separately again.

Seth hopes there will be good news today.

At the same time, Seth landed on the scorched earth of the underworld and captured a few wandering human undead.

"Who are you?" Seth looked at the undead man who looked like a middle-aged man and asked him.

The middle-aged man just stayed silent and said nothing.

Seeing this, Seth tried to give him a bit of divine power.

However, the moment the divine power entered the middle-aged man's body.

His whole body burned with cold black flames.

In the blink of an eye it turned into a pile of ashes.

The sudden change left Seth helpless.

He tried to ask other undead, but he was the same as the middle-aged man just now.

Detained in place, they looked at Seth blankly.

Lost wisdom, consciousness, emotions, wandering on the scorched earth of the underworld.

It was impossible to communicate at all, and there was no way to find out from their mouths whether they had seen the reed marsh.

At this moment Seth kind of wanted wisdom and authority.

If He had the wisdom authority, He could give them wisdom again.

Unfortunately, he didn't.

Sighing, Seth released the undead and allowed them to continue wandering.

As for sending them back to the River Styx, Seth was worried that they would still look like this after reincarnation.

Then the existence that gave birth to such a creature must have had a very difficult time.

It's okay to be reincarnated into an animal, but the fittest will soon be eliminated.

If reincarnated into a group of intelligent creatures that can communicate.

What gave birth to them and what was given birth to them were all torture.

……

On the flat grassland.

A group of newly fed lions are taking a nap.

There was still blood around their mouths.

Not far away, the carcasses of prey were crowded with vultures.

From time to time, some lion cubs rush to drive away the vultures, trying to defend their prey.

Unfortunately, the vulture doesn't care at all about the lion cub that is not as big as its own and has baby teeth.

The defense was fruitless, so the little lion decided to go back and file a complaint with the lioness.

The lionesses also chose to support their cubs and got up to drive away the vultures.

The vultures flew up quickly to avoid the attack.

Some vulture feathers fell from them.

The little lion rushed over and took it in his mouth, looking excited.

Sekhmet leaned under a fig tree and smiled as he watched the lions play.

A black cat with gold rings on both ears was speechless.

"What's so interesting about a few lions?"

Glancing at Best, Sekhmet said: "Don't you think the little lion is cute?"

"When faced with vultures that are stronger than them and can fly, they will bravely rush to attack."

Best curled her lips: "I don't think so."

"I just feel like it's shameless to sue my mother."

Sekhmet smiled and said nothing, she couldn't argue with Best.

Over the long years, this fact has been verified.

At this time, a yellow sand bird flew in front of Sekhmet.

Seeing the flying birds on the yellow sand, Sekhmet smiled even more.

Seeing this, Best curled her lips again.

(End of this chapter)