Talk:Set animal

I'm pretty sure it's a poorly depicted horse
Since Set is the antagonistic god of foreigners, I'm pretty sure the "set animal" is actually a mutated and poorly depicted horse, of which the Egyptians would have had little to no access to in its more ancient times, but was nonetheless the primary adversarial animal when facing foreigners (Canaanite and Philistine, who were infamous for their Equestrianism) in their attempts to venture north. Attempts to import horses for domestic use or foreign use of horses against the Egyptians would have failed due to the impracticality of using horses in north African desert sand. Thus the ancient Egyptians were underexposed to horses, but would have imported tales of their appearance and nefariousness in the hands of foreigners.


 * Looks more like an anteater to me but that's a new world animal, maybe there was an old world relative. 98.4.124.117 (talk) 07:24, 17 April 2017 (UTC)

It could be a Donkey Nyarlat 1920 (talk) 16:55, 3 December 2021 (UTC)

Changing article importance to MID
First, the hieroglyph article Set-animal (hieroglyph) was merged (content, but then Re-Directed) into the later Set animal article.

After one (an individual) reads the article, or studies the Ancient Egypt history/References etc., one learns that 1, this is part of the story of Horus and Set, (probably good/evil, as well as the contrast of the desert dryness (death)-(and tempests), and the green, food-growing Nile). 2; The oldest uses are for Pharaohs: Scorpion Macehead, and soon followed by the Set animal mounted upon the serekhs of Seth-Peribsen and Khasekhemwy.... so I'm changing to MID importance.

3: (The later Seti I, and Seti II are all part of the grand Ramesses series, Sea Peoples, etc.... so the importance of the "Set animal concept" was working 1500+ years later.)Mmcannis (talk) 14:34, 26 December 2011 (UTC)

Intention to revise substantially
I created this article a couple of years ago, with the intention of focusing on the animal sha, as a distinct entity from the god Set and his mythology. Obviously the article had to address Set, but over time the focus of the article has shifted more and more towards that and away from the original purpose, which was to discuss the animal itself (if indeed it does or once did exist).

At the time I wrote the original version, I was still quite new to Wikipedia (this was my first original article), and it could have been much better. But I think that with the benefit of experience I'm in a position to set things straight again, work on grammar and clarity, reduce the amount of material that properly belongs in the article about Set, and would like to propose returning the article to its original title, since sha has been known as the Egyptian name for the animal for over a century. But before I undertake these revisions I thought I'd better ask for some input from others interested in the topic. P Aculeius (talk) 05:26, 27 December 2011 (UTC)


 * I made the recent article edits (the typo fixed about the "language" usage). As the author of the Set-animal (hieroglyph) article, which could (and probably should) be a separate article....I suggest this: either one of us can remove the Re-Direct of "Set-animal (hieroglyph)"-(just let IT, and its history still preserved there, CONTINUE)... then start revising the existing article as you see fit. The hieroglyph article, can then be updated (by YOU) after a month, or so, after you've made the changes... (and dealt with WHOMEVER).. regrettably, the "know-it-alls", the 'experts' come out of the woodwork, to either help, or impede, and now with being more familiar with Wikipedia, you know exactly what i'm referring to. (Removing the Redirect still lets you completely alter the entire Set-animal article.) Maybe make a "User_talk:Aculeius/Sandbox/Set-animal2", as a duplicate starting point even before you start; Revise, and replace the now PRESENT (copy/paste) and start with the partially revised copy that you've already worked on for some days,or,so..(In other words a "one-week-start", on an immediate revision)Mmcannis (talk) 17:48, 27 December 2011 (UTC)


 * As a secondary Note to Author....you might consider or at least talk about the "Historical dogs in Early-Ancient-Egypt"-(I think Anubis was created shortly AFTER Set, or were they simultaneous, same timeperiods?)...here are the series of "dog" hieroglyphs (as I think, they are named) Dog hieroglyphs: Dog hieroglyphs: Examining how I portrayed this in HIEROGLYPHS, also shows how to Inject a "space" between the hieroglyphs, as well as put a label into the TEXT (CAPITAL letters turn into other Wiki hieroglyhs, (so most of A-Z are "unusable", for this notation) Mmcannis (talk) 13:41, 29 December 2011 (UTC)

Vandalism
I've removed the two lines "the Set Animal is the perfect hunter. If its eyes are glowing then it means that it has smelled you.  The Set Animal cannot be killed". This is fairly obviously juvenile vandalism. 124.149.51.131 (talk) 09:05, 30 March 2013 (UTC)