Lord Of The Desert

"Set is perhaps the most mysterious god of the ancient egyptian pantheon: 

A lord of contradictions and conflicts, 

A god at once saving the world and rejected as a traitor, 

An incarnation of "other" which, unlike all remaining egyptian deities, 

Was not even given a recognisable animal face". 



The red dunes are my home 

Far away from the black earth 

I have to wait for the barbarians 

To come and worship me again 



Nightly I save you all from the serpent 

Which stalks the world with no end 

But you still kill me and castrate 

Turning me into my victim 



I am trampled by those whom I save 

Despised down and up the river 

The double slayer, the isolator 

Set, the lord of desert, is me 



Riding the storms of sand so alien I am 

You can't even give me the head 

There would be no life and rebirth 

Without my fratricide and fight with the bird 



Yet, you break my statues 

And spear them for a sign 

Of ungodly displacement 

And banishment to the edge of the night 



I am trampled by those whom I save 

Despised down and up the river 

The double slayer, the isolator 

Set, the lord of desert, is me