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>Set (also spelled Sutekh, Setesh, Seteh, Seth) was a Egyptian god of the desert (including desert storms), thunder, cunning, wit, trickery, evil, pain and suffering
>The word for desert, in Egyptian, was Tesherit, which is very similar to the word for red, Tesher (in fact, it has the appearance of a feminine form of the word for red). Consequently, Set became associated with things that were red, including people with red hair (a stereotypically non-Egyptian attribute of some Asiatic Hyksos)
>The Ebers Papyrus (c. 1550 BC) describes the followers of Set (Seth) as red haired and fair skinned (cf. Beiträge zur Ältesten Geschichte Ägyptens, 1903, p. 127; Wainright, 1938, p. 31)
>A papyrus dating to the 13th century BC (Dynasty XIX) describes the ”followers of Seth” as redheads (Hieratic Papyri in the British Museum, Third Series, i, Text, pp. 10, 20, 21)
>A fragment from the Dream Book of Papyrus Chester Beatty III describes Seth as red haired (quoted in The Ancient Egyptians, Adolf Erman, 1978, p. xv)
>In the ”Festival Songs of Isis and Nephyths” the followers of Seth are called the ”red ones” after their red hair (Bremner-Rhind P. I, 5, 1 cf. Faulkner, HEA 22, 125, 135)
>Diodorus Siculus (1st century BC) describes Typhon (Set) as red-haired (i. 88. 5)
>Plutarch (1st century AD) notes that Typhon (Set) had red hair (De Iside et Osiride, 362. xxx)
>Petrie in his Religion and Conscience in Ancient Egypt (1898) notes ”That Set belongs to the Libyans or Westerns is probable, because he is considered to have red hair and a white skin.” (p. 32)
>Margaret Bunsen in her Encylopedia of Ancient Egypt (2002) notes that the followers of Seth ”were called ‘the red ones’ because they supposedly had red faces and red hair” (p. 139)