Question

In one text, this deity gives compliments such as “how beautiful are thy buttocks, how flourishing,” to another deity as part of a seduction plot. This god, whose 72 allies included Queen Aso, is depicted receiving offerings of wine on the Year 400 Stela. To reach a compromise with this god, a goddess often conflated with Athena offers him the foreign goddesses Anat and Astarte as wives. This god cut the talons off his servant Nemty after he ferried a goddess to a meeting on an island. This god loses a race after his opponent tricks (10[1])him into making his boat out of stone. (10[1])After cutting (10[1])his brother into 14 pieces, this god fights (10[1])to rule Egypt in a series of “contendings” with his nephew Horus. (10[2])For 10 points, what brother of Osiris is the Egyptian god of storms and chaos? ■END■

ANSWER: Seth [or Sutekh]
<Purdue, Mythology>
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PlayerTeamOpponentBuzz PositionValue
Joshua GarnerOhio State BMichigan A9510
Ruchir KodihalliCase Western BOhio State A10310
Biyang ZhangMichigan BCarnegie Mellon B10510
Elie AounCase Western AMichigan C11310
Xavier MigliaccioCarnegie Mellon AKenyon12510
Cade SmithMichigan StateMichigan D12510

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