Contendings of Horus and Seth,  in barest outline

 

1) Horus comes to claim the throne

2) Ennead support him (esp. Shu and Thoth); Neith as arbiter rules for Horus

3) Re opposes...calls for trial

4) Horus claims the kingdom as heir, Seth claims it as the stronger.

5) Isis demands a decision by Atum (in council w/ Ennead in seclusion),

Seth bars Isis.

6) Isis sneaks in, seduces Seth, tricks him into acknowledging the son’s right to father’s estate.

7) Atum decides for Horus, Seth objects; crown in the water, S and H compete as Hippos   (Isis harpoons each)

8) Horus outraged at Isis, goes off to sulk; Seth steals his eyes; Hathor restores them with gazelle’s milk

9) The Ennead (upset by this savagery?) order reconciliation; Seth invites Horus to ‘holiday’.

10) Seth assaults Horus ‘between his thighs’, H catches the semen, Isis cuts off his hand.

11) Isis takes semen of Horus and impregnates the lettuce that Seth loves to eat.

12) Seth eats the lettuce; in magic ordeal, each to summon his semen. Thoth calls, "Come out, you semen of Horus." H’s Sun disk emerges above Seth’s head.

13) They race in stone ships (Horus cheats with plastered pine) and nearly harpoons hippo Seth

14) After 80 years at trial, they invoke Osiris himself and he decides for Horus:   "Why should my son Horus be cheated when it was I that made you mighty and it was I (alone) who could create barley and emmer in order to sustain the gods as well as the cattle…

 

Thus Horus becomes king of Egypt;

 

 Seth is honored as companion of Re.