ADULTS 18+ ONLY  During the pharoanic period Set was god of male homosexuality as well as of individuality. He was depitcted in different forms - sometimes as a gender-variant male and sometimes as a red or white-skinned man with the head of a dog, the body of a greyhound and a long forked tail. His birthday was celebrated on 16 July. Originally he was, according to legend, given Upper Egypt to rule while his handsome brother [ or sometimes it's said his nephew ] Horus ruled over Lower Egypt. After the reunification the two gods were frequently depicted as a couple with the symbol of unity between them. There is also a clear implication of a homosexual relationship and in one myth Set gives birth to Horus' child. According to one myth Set attempts to disgrace Horus by being the active partner in sex with him but on his mother's advice Horus catches Set's semen in his hand and takes it to his mother who puts it on Set's favourite food - lettuce which Set then unknowlingly eats. Set, thinking his semen is inside Horus calls the judges and askes them to determine who it is who has been impregnated. Much to his surprise when the judges call forth the semen it responds from his own stomach disgracing himself and exonerating Horus. Another legend has it that Set tried to rape Horus, and that for several days that two battled, transformed into hippopotami in the Nile. Set tore out Horus' eye but Horus ripped off Set's penis. Eventually, however, after the intervention of Thoth, the monkey-like god of wisdom, the two god's were reconciled. The legendary sexual struggle and eventual reconciliation between the two gods are viewed by historians as allegories for the fighting between upper and lower Egypt which finally led to the country unifying around 3000BC. Read more gay history - Egyptian god creates the Universe after swallowing his own semen. xClick here. Second Century - Roman Emperor's favourite drowns in the Nile. xClick here Twelth Century - Salah El-Din - Egypt's gay hero. xClick here Fifteenth Century - Cairo Slave Boy Market. xClick here. Twentieth Century - Terrorists threaten penis shaped Cairo Tower - Click here. More Gay History - xClick here ! Don't care for history ? Try a shockingly depraved story - click here ! Is your right hand exhausted by sordid sex stories ? Browse GayEgypt.com's multi-country personals section - click here ! Discover gay destinations in Egypt - click here or Learn some Arabic sex slang - click herex ! |