Egyptian Mythology: Daily Life of the Desert God

Chapter 5 Cat’s Deception
The girl bought the barbecue and came back. She took two bites and shook her head in disgust: "It's not spicy at all."

Set swallowed the roast in a few bites and tossed the skewer aside.

"I do like the spiciness."

The girl pouted and said.

"Set, I heard from Sekhmet that you are missing."

"It's just hiding to heal." Seth said: "Apepu's power can compete with the god Ra."

"Yes." The girl nodded.

"Best, is there anything delicious in the city?" Seth asked after naming the girl.

The main god is Bethet - the god of cats, protection and dancing.

Best thought for a moment and said, "There is a man in the city who cooks delicious snake meat."

"However, he took the map I gave him and went to dig for gold."

"Otherwise, there's nothing delicious."

"There are no good spice traders in this oasis."

Seth also became curious after hearing this.

"Is it fun to lie to people?"

In his memory, Best often appeared in human gathering places, playing tricks on humans in various identities.

The most typical one is to induce people to dig for gold.

Like just now, tell everyone there's gold somewhere.

As long as you follow the map, you can dig out a lot of gold.

Then a group of people will follow the map to dig for gold.

With the same trick, people fall for it every time, and Best plays it endlessly.

Best shook her head in denial: "I didn't lie."

"The map does record a precious thing."

"It's just that those people haven't dug it yet. When they do, you'll know."

"I hope that day comes soon." Seth said with a smile.

"When that day comes, it might not be a good thing." Best muttered in a low voice.

Seth heard clearly and did not continue the topic. He only said: "Since there is no good food here, I will leave first."

"Yeah." Best nodded slightly.

Leaving the crowd and walking out of the oasis, Seth called out the flying birds in the yellow sand.

He was not in a hurry to go to the next oasis, but let the yellow sand bird go to a place.

Five days later, Seth stood in mid-air, looking at the empty desert, feeling as if he had been cheated.

There is no well here at all.

To be precise, there is nothing here.

He only came here based on his memory out of curiosity about what Beth said.

As the god of the desert, he can be sure that there is nothing here.

"I also became a victim of the cat's scam, and I took the initiative to fall for it..." Seth smiled helplessly.

"Forget it, let's go to the nearby oasis."

Sitting on the back of the flying bird in the yellow sand again, Seth thought about something.

Suddenly, a palm-sized house floated in front of Seth.

Seth frowned, it was a letter from Nephthys.

The main god Nephthys - the patron saint of fertility, houses and the dead.

He didn't want anything to do with Nephthys.

But we can’t let Xin follow him all the time.

There was no other way, so Seth opened the letter.

The content is roughly concerned with greeting Seth.

Tender concern wasn't what Seth noticed;

In the letter, Nephthys learned that Seth had recovered through Isis's letter to Osiris.

and said that both she and Osiris were happy.

Let’s not talk about why Isis didn’t tell Nephthys.

Just the two names Nephthys and Osiris coming together made Seth feel something was wrong.

There was always a feeling that Isis would be betrayed.

Rubbing his eyebrows, Seth felt a little headache.

He was most familiar with ancient Egyptian mythology, the story of the bloody Seth killing Osiris. He knew basically nothing about other stories.

That wasn't the point, the point was that he wasn't actually sure things were going to turn out the way he knew they would.

He avoided Nephthys because he couldn't afford the consequences.

The problem now is that Seth doesn't want to see Isis sad.

This sister cares about him and helps him. He wants to make her happy.

But he can't say, sister, Nephthys is hooking up with Osiris and will give birth to a child.

What he said that didn't happen would undermine Isis's trust in him.

After much thought, Seth decided to go find Osiris.

Isis was supposed to be busy matching the gods for marriage, and he happened to be looking at Osiris.

By the way, give Osiris some eye drops to prevent him from betraying Isis.

After making the decision, Seth raised his hand and wrote thank you, and then the hieroglyphic text changed into yellow sand and flying birds left.

After finishing, Seth sent another letter to Isis.

Asking her where Osiris was lately, he was going to find him.

While waiting for Isis to receive and reply to the letter, Seth walked around the nearby oasis.

Unfortunately, this oasis is not big, and there are basically no spice merchants coming.

Luckily, the people who live here make some really good barley beer.

Seth wiped the hops off his mouth and said to the old man selling wine, "Have another drink."

"Okay." The old man responded enthusiastically.

He turned around and took a glass of beer from the half-person tall clay pot.

The aroma of fermented barley with a hint of sweetness.

Seth ate a piece of fried snake meat and took a sip of wine, which made him feel better.

After eating and drinking, Seth specially bought a clay pot of wine to take with him.

It should be a meeting ceremony to meet Osiris.

Sitting on the back of the bird on the yellow sand, Seth let it fly towards the temple where Osiris often stayed.

He himself took a nap.

When Seth woke up, night had fallen.

Today is the new moon, and the stars in the sky are particularly bright, as if they are replacing the moonlight to shine on the earth.

Set looked at the stars and wondered how long they would last.

How long will it take for the father god Kebu and the mother god Nut, who gave birth to their four gods, to bow to them?

"It should be soon." Seth said to himself.

Then forget about it for the time being.

The four of them had already decided how to repay the fact that the Father God and the Mother God had taken away their divine power and made them almost unable to ascend to the throne of God.

Now Seth feels that the original decision was good and he just needs to wait for the time to come.

At this time, a green water lily flower floated in front of Seth, with the breath of Isis attached to it.

Seth nodded at the lotus flower.

The lily pad disintegrates into a sequence of sacred text.

After reading it quickly, Seth dispersed the text.

"Nephtis has rejected the God of Blue and Gold, thirty years after he was seriously injured and disappeared." Set admired the God of Blue and Gold.

He was severely beaten by the original Seth, and he dared to pursue Nephthys while Seth was recovering from his injury.

Isn't he afraid that Seth will beat him again after he recovers?

It seems that this blue and gold god really likes Nephthys.

However, he has been rejected.

Isis also said that Osiris was in his usual temple.

At the same time, Seth was also asked to meet Nephthys in person.

She did not tell Nephthys that he had been cured.

"Tsk, it's a pity that she already knew it from Osiris." Seth narrowed his eyes and took out the Ankh.

The oval and semi-cross-shaped Ankh was placed on the back of a flying bird on the yellow sand by Seth.

Powerful divine power poured into the yellow sand bird's body, making it a hundred times faster.

"As fast as possible." Seth said, he wanted to get to the temple of Osiris as soon as possible.

"Yes, Master!" The yellow sand bird flapped its wings in response.

(End of this chapter)