Editing Set (deity) (section)

== Family ==
[[File:Nephthis and Seth-E 3374-IMG 8007-gradient.jpg|thumb|275px|Set and Nephthys, 1279–1213&nbsp;BCE, stone, [[Louvre]]|left]]
Set is the son of Geb, the Earth, and [[Nut (goddess)|Nut]], the Sky; his siblings are [[Osiris]], [[Isis]], and [[Nephthys]]. He married Nephthys and had had relationships with the foreign goddesses [[Anat]] and [[Astarte]] in some accounts. Though it has commonly been assumed that Set was married to Nephthys and therefore must have been considered the father of Anubis,<ref>Doxey 2001,p.98.</ref><ref>E.A. Wallis Budge, "Nephthys", in "The Gods of the Egyptians or Studies in Egyptian Mythology: Volume 2", London: Methuen & Co, 1904, p.254.</ref> some Egyptologists, such as Herman te Velde, have doubted whether Set was ever regarded as Anubis's father in ancient Egyptian religion.<ref name="oxford"/>{{rp|270}}<ref>Herman te Velde(1968). ''The Egyptian God Seth as a Trickster''. In: Journal of the American Research Center in Egypt, 7, p.39.</ref><ref>Levai, Jessica. "Nephthys and Seth: Anatomy of a Mythical Marriage", Paper presented at The 58th Annual Meeting of the American Research Center in Egypt, Wyndham Toledo Hotel, Toledo, Ohio, Apr 20, 2007.</ref> From these relationships is said to be born a crocodile deity called Maga.<ref name=Rogers-2019>{{cite journal |last=Rogers |first=John |year=2019 |title=The demon-deity Maga: geographical variation and chronological transformation in ancient Egyptian demonology |journal=Current Research in Egyptology 2019 |pages=183–203 |url=https://www.academia.edu/46879153 }}</ref>