Author: Velde, H. (Herman) te; Wolfgang Helck (Editor).
Title: Seth, God of Confusion: A Study of His Role in Egyptian Mythology and Religion. (Probleme der Ägyptologie VI). [AND:] The Egyptian God Seth as Trickster. Paper Read at the XXVII International Congress of Orientalists, 1967.
Description: Leiden, Brill, 1977. Soft cover. Royal octavo. Pp. xiii, 168. Plus frontispiece and 12 other plates. Bound in the original stiff wrappers; small signature to half-title. In mint condition. Excellent copy. ~ Reprint with some corrections. First published in 1967. Probleme der Ägyptologie VI. The frontispiece which is present here is often missing in other copies of the second edition. [AND:] H. te Velde: "The Egyptian God Seth as Trickster. Paper Read at the XXVII International Congress of Orientalists, Ann Arbor, Michigan, 1967." (The Author, Groningen, Egyptologisch Instituut, 1967). Pp.6. Laser print copy of the original manuscript. With the Author's corrections and additions in pen. In this paper Seth appears disorderly and uncivilised, a murderer, a homosexual and a slayer-of-the-monster, characteristics in common with that complex phenomenon of the Trickster. In the same year, Te Velde published his doctoral dissertation "Seth, God of Confusion: A Study of His Role in Egyptian Mythology and Religion" which became a classic and a standard work on the subject. Te Velde's paper was published a year later in JARCE (AEB 68617). 008-4 .

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