The Open court . HoREMHEB Protected by Seth and Hor^(King Horemheb lived in the fourteenth century B. C.) nineteenth dynasty so popular that kings of that period frequentlycall themselves beloved of Seth. He represented the Sun in theSouth and apparently symbolised its destructive powers. He wasthe god of war, of victory, of conquest. But the time came whenthe Hyksos, foreign invaders of Semitic origin, took possession ofLower Egypt; and these formidable foes worshipped a god whowas identified with Seth and symbolised by the same emblems. 1 Lepsius, Denki)p. 222. (Specs of Gebel Addeh, Nubia;

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The Open court . HoREMHEB Protected by Seth and Hor^(King Horemheb lived in the fourteenth century B. C.) nineteenth dynasty so popular that kings of that period frequentlycall themselves beloved of Seth. He represented the Sun in theSouth and apparently symbolised its destructive powers. He wasthe god of war, of victory, of conquest. But the time came whenthe Hyksos, foreign invaders of Semitic origin, took possession ofLower Egypt; and these formidable foes worshipped a god whowas identified with Seth and symbolised by the same emblems. 1 Lepsius, Denki)p. 222. (Specs of Gebel Addeh, Nubia; cf. Wiedemann. R. A. E., 72 THE OPKN COURT,. Seth Teaching the King the Art of War. (After Erman. ^1 WSS I Two Ways of Spell-ing Seth in Hiero-glyphs.

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