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"In the Desert of Set" Episode #71:
It's Setian, Not "Satanic"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DaE1_ElM-HM&t=555s

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"Soundtracks" for Polytheist Films & TV!

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Music: "In the Name of Sutekh" by G.B. Marian, from "Set Is Now" (2021)

In the Name of Sutekh
Gonna bring you down
Won't stop for nothin'
'Till it's all turned 'round

In the Name of Sutekh
No prophets, no kings
Just us and them, together again
Everybody sings

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When I first met You and learned You are actually there, it was love at first sight. I knew immediately that no other Higher Power would ever take Your place in my heart. Nearly 26 years later, our bond is stronger now than ever.

You opened my eyes, You opened my mouth to speak. You filled my mouth with good, strong words of power. You straightened my spine, and You always rooted for me, even during the times when no one else had my back.

You taught me to be a husband to the widow and a father to the orphan. You helped me be kind to others, even when I am without hope. You have brought so many wonderful people into my life, each of whom I cherish. And You taught me that the single greatest magic word in any language is always "NO."

Happy Nativity my Lord, my Eternal Source, my Holy Outlaw. I will stand by You in this world and the next. I will offer You praises until the end of my days and beyond. I love You and worship You, and I hope and I pray that I make you proud somehow.

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Epag Day 3: Happy birthday Set!

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O Set, Rebel coming in the night.
Bones of iron before Whom the sky does shake,
Who sends the storm above.
They say “He Who doesn’t care about the law”,
yet righteous swords do glint and arrows fly.
He Who fells isfet, poised atop the Barque of Ra,
outstretched hands fend off A/p/e/p upon the hour.
Heru takes the Shield and You the Sword, ensure our victory!
That which torn apart can fight as One against a common goal.
Abhorrent or Beloved, each in its stride,
a time for all, a place to rest, a day to be.
And be this day indeed, take up the mantle,
You of Thunderous Sky and Shifting Sand.
Be sharp as flint and swift as bird,
stealth of fish yet strong as raging bull.
He Who loves the fight, Who holds his head on high,
Who welcomes dissonance abroad yet beats the drum
compelling, every sound yields on His might.
I stand with You, Lord of Blades and Power,
my bonds undone, I will not bow to evil.

(c) Nesiwepwawet | Graylynn

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19th century Europeans popularized the notion that pentagrams mean something "different" based on how they are drawn, and that this difference is somehow “ethical” in nature. They insisted that one-point-up pentagrams are “upright,” representing “goodness and light,” while two-point-up pentagrams are “inverted,” representing “darkness and evil.”

The so-called “inverted” pentagram with a goat’s head goes back to the French occultist Stanislas de Guaita in 1897, and it was later adopted by Anton LaVey as the Sigil of Baphomet in 1966. This has led people to assume that any pentagram with two points up is “satanic,” which actually isn’t true by a long shot.

This symbol is held sacred and drawn differently in many traditions, and it means something unique to each one. Within the LV-426 Tradition of Setianism, we do not consider the two-point-up pentagram to be “inverted” at all. We consider it to be exactly the way it should be: right-side up. Whenever we see a pentagram displayed with only one point up, it actually looks "upside down" to us! But that’s OK, we just chalk the difference up to personal preference. A pentagram is still a pentagram, no matter which of its points are facing up or down, and since it is circular, there is really no correct “This End Up” position. Think of it as a wheel: does it really matter which direction the spokes are pointing, as long as the wheel keeps turning?

Since we LV-426ers do not agree that the "inverted" pentagram is really "inverted" at all, we recommend a somewhat different terminology. When a pentagram is displayed with one point up, we call it a "standing pentagram," because it resembles a person doing aerobics, with their arms and legs outstretched. And when a pentagram is displayed with two points up, we call it a "horned pentagram," because it resembles the head of a goat, an antelope, or some other horned member of the Artiodactyla family.

Neither the standing nor the horned pentagram represents anything “bad” or “evil,” and whether you prefer one or the other is simply a question of aesthetics. There is absolutely nothing to stop a Setian from wearing a standing pentagram if it pleases her to do so; and there are also British Traditional Witchraft covens that use horned pentagrams to represent some of their initiatory degrees. So things are not so clear-cut between the two pentagrams as certain “experts” have been insisting since the 1890s or so - and they never were.

Sometimes people ask me why I have (horned) pentagrams all over me if I do not identify as a "Satanist." I can't speak for other Setians as to why the symbol might resonate with them; but for me at least, I imagine an antelope whenever I see it myself, which always makes me think of Set in His form as the White Oryx. (I prefer my horned pentagrams to be drawn "empty," with no animals heads; you can imagine the horned animal of your preference that way.) It also reminds me of Set's Imperishable Ones, the circumpolar stars of the northern sky. I've always felt Set looking back at me whenever I look into the horned pentagram, as well. So while it is not a symbol that "belongs" just to Set, I always link it with Him first and foremost in my mind. I like to wear a horned pentagram at all times to help keep me mindful of His presence in my life, as well.

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Set in a good mood

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Dua Sutekh! Hail, O Prince of the Darkest Heavens.

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Earlier, I mentioned that most of the villains in my music are secretly under the Ungod's influence, though they might believe they are actually serving "God," "Satan," or whatever else. But there is one particular villain who knows EXACTLY what the Ungod is, and who knowingly serves the monster as a willing accomplice. This is the Warlock, or as he is sometimes called, "the Disciple of the Worm."

The Warlock first appears in "Our Lady of Thrones," but his true cosmic significance is more fully detailed in "The Scarlet Nemesis." Like his unholy master, he is an ancient monster of isfet from beyond time and space. He is much smaller than the Ungod - about the size of a regular human person - but no less dangerous. He worms his way into various universes under various guises, engineering different disasters to facilitate the Ungod's appearance in the sky.

In "Our Lady of Thrones," the Warlock accomplishes this goal by assisting the Reverend President in his rise to power, and by engineering a mass epidemic of violence against alleged "witches" (mainly targeting the Church of Many Mothers in the process). The hysteria that ensues from this social panic causes Ma'at to finally come undone, allowing the Ungod to break into our world.

After the Ungod is exorcised by the Knights in Sutekh's Service, the Warlock uses his power over the Reverend President and the Witchfinder to establish the Kingdom Guard, a theocratic fascist regime that targets the community of New Sennebytos for extermination. This is because the Church of Many Mothers is the last bastion of Ma'at after the apocalypse, and if it is successfully destroyed, the Ungod will reappear in our sky again, perhaps for good this time. So the final battle between the Kingdom Guard and the women of New Sennebytos is more than just a conflict between two post-apocalyptic civilizations; it is also a cosmic battle for the spirit of humanity itself.

But in "The Scarlet Nemesis," we learn this is all just *one* of the Warlock's apocalyptic schemes, and that he has countless others that are currently in progress in other universes. He is the true mastermind behind such catastrophes as the Wroughtwreath Corporation ("Holiday Fear"), the Illuminati Bubonic Variant ("Bacillus Pestis"), the Neverdead ("Graveyard Minds"), various pseudo-satanic terrorist cults ("Hell is Where the Heart is"), and even a failed insurrection in a place called Great Kektrys ("Mesozoic," of which more will be said later). Each of these schemes is designed to facilitate the end of civilization and the appearance of the Ungod somehow.

The Warlock wears a different disguise and assumes a different identity for each of these schemes, and he is quite adept at infiltrating different communities and twisting them to serve his own interests. He can twist anything - Christianity, Satanism, atheism, even the worship of Egyptian Gods - to make it poisonous and toxic to the human spirit. He also likes to position himself "behind" other villains (such as the Reverend President), encouraging them to think they are in charge, when in reality they are just his puppets. If most of these other villains actually knew who the Warlock really is and what he actually stands for, they would either run away from him screaming or die of fright.

The Disciple of the Worm has made quite a few enemies during his aeons-old career, but almost none of them pose any threat to him whatsoever. As a monster of isfet, he is immortal and cannot be destroyed with any conventional weaponry. But there is one person in the entire multiverse who actually makes him nervous, and that is the younger Shieldmaiden of Set. Although she has no inherent supernatural abilities of her own, the Shieldmaiden possesses the only weapon that can harm the Warlock: a khepesh sickle sword, forged from the iron bones of her divine Namesake, which glows bright red whenever monsters of isfet are near.

The Shieldmaiden also has a will of iron that is infinitely stronger than that of anyone else the Warlock has ever met. She relentlessly pursues him across multiple realities in "The Scarlet Nemesis," foiling as many of his evil schemes as she can. It keeps the Warlock awake at night, knowing that this mere mortal woman is somehow capable of causing him so much trouble. Their interdimensional conflict continues to echo throughout Creation, with both the Warlock and the Shieldmaiden influencing events in other storylines (including "Cymetrodons" and the upcoming "Summer's End IV").

While "The Scarlet Nemesis" tries to give a sense of just how many different universes the Shieldmaiden and the Warlock have visited during their battles, there is actually no way for anyone to be sure of this number. I imagine the two of them have had plenty more battles in plenty more universes, between each of the stories that are included on that album.

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The Ungod is a hideous monster of isfet (the absence of Ma'at) from beyond time and space. It has only one single-minded goal: the total discreation of all things, including all Gods, all universes, and even itself in the end. In "His Nocturnal Majesty" and "Our Lady of Thrones," it appears as a giant mouth in the sky, causing most who see it to go mad with fear. Every villain in my entire fictional multiverse is secretly under the Ungod's influence; but most believe themselves to be serving either "God," "Satan," "humanity," "nature," or even just their own fragile egos. This is just how the Ungod likes it.

Under normal cirumstances, it is impossible for the Ungod to attack our shared multiverse directly. This is because the multiverse is built upon Ma'at, the truth and justice of the Gods, which is poisonous to all monsters of isfet. The Gods work together to uphold Ma'at at Their higher level of existence, preventing the Ungod from devouring everything all at once. But human beings are responsible for upholding Ma'at here at the terrestrial level; and if too many people work isfet instead, reality will fall apart and the Ungod can physically slither into our world through the cracks.

If this happens (as it does in "His Nocturnal Majesty" and "Our Lady of Thrones"), the Gods cannot simply reach in and save us. Human beings will have to do something here on our end before the Gods can step in. We will have to repair and rebuild Ma'at within ourselves and between each other. We will have to work some powerful magic to win the soul of humanity back. Hence why the Knights in Sutekh's Service must conduct a synchronized ritual together to exorcise the Ungod. Once there is finally enough Ma'at for such a team effort to be successfully coordinated, Set Himself reaches through the cracks in our universe, grabs the Ungod by its cyclopean throat, and drags it kicking and screaming back to the Other Side.

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The younger Shieldmaiden of Set beats the stuffing out of the Warlock across multiple realities, like he owes her money (in "The War Across the Worlds," from "The Scarlet Nemesis").

https://gbmarian.bandcamp.com/track/the-war-across-the-worlds

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The younger Shieldmaiden of Set striking fear into the hearts of evildoers.

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The younger Shieldmaiden of Set meets her Namesake in "The Imperishable Ones" (from "The Scarlet Nemesis").

https://gbmarian.bandcamp.com/track/the-imperishable-ones

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"Shieldmaiden of Set"
From "His Nocturnal Majesty"

https://youtu.be/E_wiBPCQM48

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"Shieldmaiden of Set"
From "His Nocturnal Majesty" (2020)

https://youtu.be/xzqkZI-I-QM

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"Set On Screen"

My opinions on how certain media depictions of Set hold up against the real-life God, as He was actually worshiped in history and as He is actually worshiped today.

http://desertofset.com/2020/06/16/set-on-screen/

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I can’t claim to be absolutely 100% certain that Set (or any other deity) is really a sentient entity that actually hears my prayers, or that has ever directly intervened in my life to change it for the better. But apart from my personal belief that these things are true, I can at least be certain that if I had never uttered a single prayer to Set, I would never have met some of my closest loved ones; I would not have the family I now cherish; I would not have developed my current career; and I would never have hoisted myself from the cesspool of domestic abuse in which I was raised. None of this proves that Set is objectively real by any means, but it does prove that His influence in my life is strong enough for it not to matter whether He is or isn’t. And to this extent at least, He and the other divinities I’ve encountered are all quite real enough for my purposes. Whatever the gods actually are or however they are to be explained, they are certainly effective, just as magic can be effective whether it is truly “paranormal” or not.

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