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Fig. 3 Seth on the 400-Year Stela (after MONTET 1933, pl. XIII) When Green describes the theophany of Baal, he enumerates heavy rains, snow, and clouds.” Stadelmann adds that his voice can be heard in the yell of the thunder.” Those elements of Baal’s theophany find their clear expression in the Sethian vocabulary: in smnw ‘rainstorm,’ srk ‘snow, krj ‘storm, clouds,’ nsnj ‘storm, rage,’ and in the subcategory of Uproariousness.

Figure 3 Seth on the 400-Year Stela (after MONTET 1933, pl. XIII) When Green describes the theophany of Baal, he enumerates heavy rains, snow, and clouds.” Stadelmann adds that his voice can be heard in the yell of the thunder.” Those elements of Baal’s theophany find their clear expression in the Sethian vocabulary: in smnw ‘rainstorm,’ srk ‘snow, krj ‘storm, clouds,’ nsnj ‘storm, rage,’ and in the subcategory of Uproariousness.

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Fig. 2 The Seth category and its adjacent categories during the Middle and the New Kingdoms. Whereas after the Middle Kingdom one of the main semantic clusters of the category” disap- pears, some old-new clusters emerge in the New Kingdom. The words in the New Kingdom can be divided into two main semantic clusters. One semantic cluster is Aggressive behavior, includ- ing words such as /nn, ‘disrupt,’ khb ‘to harm, rage,’ kh3 ‘shout, bellow.’ Another — even big- ger — semantic cluster is Weather Disturbances, reflected in words such as srk, ‘snow,’ smnw ‘rain- storm,’ krj ‘storm, clouds,’ nsnj ‘storm, rage,’ h3h3tj, and phph, both bearing the meaning ‘storm.’ Under the category of weather distur- bances one should include the new subcluster of Uproariousness, with such words as hmhm ‘war- The disappearance of the illness-suffering clus- ter is also indicated by the shift in the possibilities for alternative classification of words from the rel- evant semantic domains. The Seth classifier no longer interchanges with the “evil bird”? SX (GARDINER 1957: 471 G37) or the “pustule” ( (GARDINER 1957: 539 Aal), which is an alternative classifier for illnesses. One of the typical features of the Seth classifier during the New Kingdom is that in many of the cases it doesn’t appear alone.”! It is usually accompanied by the [WEATHER] classi- fier, ‘TIT (GARDINER 1951: 485 N4), or by the [POWERFUL ACTIVITY], “—J (GARDINER 1957: 455 D40) and % (Garpiner 1951: 444 A24), the latter stressing the more anthropomorphic attributes of the deity.
Fig. 2 The Seth category and its adjacent categories during the Middle and the New Kingdoms. Whereas after the Middle Kingdom one of the main semantic clusters of the category” disap- pears, some old-new clusters emerge in the New Kingdom. The words in the New Kingdom can be divided into two main semantic clusters. One semantic cluster is Aggressive behavior, includ- ing words such as /nn, ‘disrupt,’ khb ‘to harm, rage,’ kh3 ‘shout, bellow.’ Another — even big- ger — semantic cluster is Weather Disturbances, reflected in words such as srk, ‘snow,’ smnw ‘rain- storm,’ krj ‘storm, clouds,’ nsnj ‘storm, rage,’ h3h3tj, and phph, both bearing the meaning ‘storm.’ Under the category of weather distur- bances one should include the new subcluster of Uproariousness, with such words as hmhm ‘war- The disappearance of the illness-suffering clus- ter is also indicated by the shift in the possibilities for alternative classification of words from the rel- evant semantic domains. The Seth classifier no longer interchanges with the “evil bird”? SX (GARDINER 1957: 471 G37) or the “pustule” ( (GARDINER 1957: 539 Aal), which is an alternative classifier for illnesses. One of the typical features of the Seth classifier during the New Kingdom is that in many of the cases it doesn’t appear alone.”! It is usually accompanied by the [WEATHER] classi- fier, ‘TIT (GARDINER 1951: 485 N4), or by the [POWERFUL ACTIVITY], “—J (GARDINER 1957: 455 D40) and % (Garpiner 1951: 444 A24), the latter stressing the more anthropomorphic attributes of the deity.
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