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Set
Strength and Conflict
Strength needs a direction and a limit you can explain.
Read Set’s narratives, objects and interpretations without turning them into a single history. Compare his functions and receptions, and explore twelve contemporary ceremonies on strength, limits, agreements and review.
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- Set in Egyptian narratives, material witnesses and later interpretations.
- Horus, Osiris, Seth-Baal and shared attributes without erasing their contexts.
- Modern receptions, with their authors and institutions distinguished from ancient sources.
- Twelve contemporary ceremonies on strength, objection, support, agreements and repair.
- Workshops, original formulas, closing, recording and an annotated bibliography.
You can follow the historical journey without doing the practices. If you choose to explore them, you will find contemporary compositions clearly identified as such, with preparation, practice and closure.
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- Read the source. Recognise the creation.p. 7
- Strength and conflictp. 8
- A name across witnessesp. 9
- A god within a worldp. 10
- A function needs a contextp. 11
- Set, Seth and the transmitted namesp. 12
- Names that allow things to be locatedp. 13
- Looking at the animal without inventing a speciesp. 14
- Describing before recognisingp. 15
- The sceptre and the problem of dominionp. 16
- A shared attributep. 17
- Horus and Set: rivalry and interconnectionp. 18
- Comparing without assigning fixed rolesp. 19
- The throne before the tribunalp. 20
- The objection that does change somethingp. 21
- Isis and the argument that returnsp. 22
- When the proper name returnsp. 23
- The appearance of a boatp. 24
- Appearance does not support a planp. 25
- The body within conflictp. 26
- A narrative of harm and present-day readingp. 27
- An ending that assigns a placep. 28
- An ability after the outcomep. 29
- Osiris in Plutarch’s accountp. 30
- Reading an interpreterp. 31
- Typhon: a translation with consequencesp. 32
- An equivalence with a datep. 33
- Seth-Baal and the encounter of imagesp. 34
- A visible relationship is not total fusionp. 35
- A small object, a slow readingp. 36
- Recovering the object’s sizep. 37
- Two hearts and an open identificationp. 38
- Keeping the question markp. 39
- The hippopotamus and the limits of attributionp. 40
- A hippopotamus does not prove a scenep. 41
- Reading Egyptology with a datep. 42
- A publication is also a documentp. 43
- Present-day reception needs its own namep. 44
- Reception does not move backwards in timep. 45
- The Temple of Set: a modern institutionp. 46
- Xeper and the transformation of meaningp. 47
- Kenneth Grant and the tunnels of Setp. 48
- Four contexts, four questionsp. 49
- Seth-Baal: a case to examinep. 50
- Modern documents consultedp. 51
- Seth-Baal on a lionp. 52
- Returning to a piece one and a half centimetres longp. 53
- Attributes on a very small surfacep. 54
- Comparing two material sourcesp. 55
- Another image of Seth-Baalp. 56
- Identifying without filling in what is lostp. 57
- The head of the uas sceptrep. 58
- From the reproduced sceptre to the rodp. 59
- Horus-Set in a plate from 1904p. 60
- Two heads on a printed pagep. 61
- A clasp and two godsp. 62
- A fastening that can be openedp. 63
- The restored eye of Horusp. 64
- The eye retains its provenancep. 65
- The hippopotamus and its contextp. 66
- A caption that limits the imaginationp. 67
- Symbols with provenancep. 68
- Preparing the tablep. 69
- The form of the ceremonyp. 70
- Twelve ceremoniesp. 71
- 01 · PRESENTING STRENGTHp. 72
- 01 · Sequence and closingp. 73
- 01 · Reading and recordp. 74
- Firmness in a brief contributionp. 75
- 02 · THE BOUNDARY OF THE UASp. 76
- 02 · Sequence and closingp. 77
- 02 · Reading and recordp. 78
- Coordinating does not mean deciding for everyonep. 79
- 03 · THE TRIBUNAL OF THE THREE CARDSp. 80
- 03 · Sequence and closingp. 81
- 03 · Reading and recordp. 82
- A conclusion still waiting for informationp. 83
- 04 · THE QUESTION TURNED TOWARDS ONESELFp. 84
- 04 · Sequence and closingp. 85
- 04 · Reading and recordp. 86
- An explainable exceptionp. 87
- 05 · THE BOAT AND ITS SUPPORTSp. 88
- 05 · Sequence and closingp. 89
- 05 · Reading and recordp. 90
- A project of just one sessionp. 91
- 06 · VISIBLE REPAIRp. 92
- 06 · Sequence and closingp. 93
- 06 · Reading and recordp. 94
- Correcting a creditp. 95
- 07 · THUNDER FINDING A FUNCTIONp. 96
- 07 · Sequence and closingp. 97
- 07 · Reading and recordp. 98
- Retaining work after a rejectionp. 99
- 08 · TWO FORCES, ONE SPACEp. 100
- 08 · Sequence and closingp. 101
- 08 · Reading and recordp. 102
- Work and rest with a specific measurep. 103
- 09 · THE ALLIANCE THAT RETAINS THE NAMESp. 104
- 09 · Sequence and closingp. 105
- 09 · Reading and recordp. 106
- An offer with room for nop. 107
- 10 · THE UNOCCUPIED SPACEp. 108
- 10 · Sequence and closingp. 109
- 10 · Reading and recordp. 110
- Returning just one task to the tablep. 111
- 11 · THE CLASP OF AGREEMENTp. 112
- 11 · Sequence and closingp. 113
- 11 · Reading and recordp. 114
- A two-week agreementp. 115
- 12 · TAKING STOCK OF STRENGTHp. 116
- 12 · Sequence and closingp. 117
- 12 · Reading and recordp. 118
- Taking stock without filling every boxp. 119
- How to keep a recordp. 120
- Record of a sessionp. 121
- Motif and composition · 1p. 122
- Motif and composition · 2p. 123
- Words for reading · 1p. 124
- Words for reading · 2p. 125
- Sources consulted · 1p. 126
- Sources consulted · 2p. 127
- Images and rights · 1p. 128
- Images and rights · 2p. 129
- Returning to the bookp. 130
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You can follow the historical journey without doing the practices. If you choose to explore them, you will find contemporary compositions clearly identified as such, with preparation, practice and closure.
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No. It is a standalone digital book, without tutoring or individual feedback. TMF courses are purchased separately.
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