Together with this aspect Seth seems to have represented to the Egyptians a trickster, who knows his importance, plays with it (walks on the edge), threatens, and makes fun of the common law and judiciary system, both deceitful and lustful with his flawed ambition and all too human desires. On this level, one might consider regarding Seth as a symbol of the flawed human being, the feeling illogical. In fact, Lawrence E. Sullivan asserts that the trickster is a symbol of the human condition (1987: 45). The appeal of the unruly deity Seth might be in the fact that he justifies the negativity in human nature. Everybody secretly wants to be like Seth and wreak some occasional havoc. Furthermore, thinking of the opposites good and evil, which, in Egyptian mythology is personified either by Osiris and Seth, or Horus and Seth, are aspects that merge in the king … The pharaoh is the one in whom both lords are at peace. Only the divine king is capable of using both aspects appropriately.

– Rikala, M. 2007, Once More with Feeling: Seth the Divine Trickster, p. 235

Original article: http://www.thekeep.org/~kunoichi/kunoichi/themestream/set.html#.WBAjefkrJdg#ixzz4O9w18O3m
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