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"The remainder of the Horus and Seth story tells the various contendings these two youths devised for each other. We have to assume that Seth, also, is a ‘youth’, because Atum refers to the two contenders as ‘these two youths,’ where the word for ‘youth is again aDd.
Many of these contests, if done by human beings, would be a matter of life and death. In one contest the two youths try to outwit one another. This contest includes a homosexual attempt by Seth and a revenge by Horus. In the course of this contest both youngsters prove that they are indeed post-pubescent by producing semen.
Isis seems to be aware of the importance not just of semen production, but its placement or role in the coming-of-age ceremony. She goes through the ritual masturbation of her son to produce that semen. He has Horus place his own semen on the lettuce patch so that Seth ingests it.
Back in court, Seth declares that “I have done a man’s deed to him.” Literally, “I did work and fight to him,” where kAt, ‘work’ is written as its homonym, kAt, ‘vagina’, so it ends up reading, literally, I did a vagina fight to him. However we translate aHA, ‘to fight’, it implies the use of force in this male contest. This contest ends with a ritual calling forth of these young men’s semen with all the deities present. Seth’s semen ends up discarded in the marshes. Horus’s semen, in Seth’s belly, transforms into a golden sun disk that Thoth appropriates for himself."
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