Is the Temple of Set a neo-Egyptian religion?
No. The Temple of Set doesn’t seek to be a type of reconstructive religion. It is actually more accurately a meta-traditional (or even a-traditional) religion – not bound by any particular culture, language or nation. That means that while we seek to understand the context of the Ancient Temple of Set in Egypt, we are in no ways bound by Ancient Egyptian ideas. The Temple of Set views the Prince of Darkness in many forms, from the earliest – Set to more modern. Other cultural manifestations of the Prince of Darkness that we are interested in are: Odhinn / Loki (Germanic), Lucifer, Prometheus, Typhon, Melek Taus (Yezidi), Tezcatlipoca (Aztec), Coyote (American), Leviathan and the Romantic figure of Satan (nb without the Christian interpretation) to name a few. Various Orders of the Temple sometimes delve into particular traditions in great detail. An example is the Order of the Trapezoid, which has a focus on Odhinn and traditional systems, as well as the Order of Setne Khamuast, who fo
