Who is the Egyptian god of chaos, storms, and the desert?

The story behind the answer

Set (also spelled Seth) is the Egyptian god of chaos (isfet), storms, and the desert. He embodies the harsh, red lands beyond the Nile’s fertile banks and is linked to disorder and violent weather. Unlike Ra (sun), Horus (kingship/sky), or Anubis (mummification and the dead), Set’s domain is turmoil and the unforgiving wilderness.

Mythically, Set murders his brother Osiris and battles Osiris’s son Horus for the throne, symbolizing the struggle between chaos and order. Yet he’s not purely evil—Set also defends the sun god Ra against the chaos serpent Apophis each night. Memory tip: “Set stirs the sand”—think Set for sand, storms, and strife.