ABSTRACT
In this legend men themselves seem to be regarded as the originators of sin, for it was as the result of their folly that the earth ceased to be under the direct rule of the perfectly righteous god.
Possibly also the above-quoted passage from the Pyramid Texts refers, in its original form, to this rebellion against the sun-god.7 The reference to the quarrel between Horus and Seth is apparently a later addition. But he who inserted it evidently held the view that all the sin and misery that prevail in the world originated, not in the acts of men, but in Seth's murder of Osiris and his subsequent conflict with Horus.
