Seth (Sutekh) — God of Disorder & Defender of the Sun

Egyptians worshipped Seth as the god of the desert, storms, violence, strength, and foreign lands — a turbulent power, but emphatically not a simple 'devil.' In the Osiris myth he is the murderer of his brother and the rival of Horus; yet in the solar cult he stands in the prow of the sun god's boat, spear in hand, as the one strong enough to kill the chaos-serpent Apophis each night. Some kings even bore his name with pride. Only later, especially in the Greco-Roman period, was Seth increasingly recast as a wholly evil being — a demonization that distorts his older, ambivalent role.