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In ancient Egyptian art, the Set animal, or sha, is a chimerical beast, the totemic animal of the god Set. Because Set was identified with the Greek Typhon, the animal is also commonly known as the Typhonian animal or Typhonic beast. Unlike other animals, Set is not easily identifiable in the modern animal world. Today, there is a general agreement among Egyptologists that it was never a real creature and existed only in ancient Egyptian imagination. In recent years, there have been many attempts by zoologists to find the Set animal in nature. Despite the fact that the animal’s existence is unknown, it had much significance for the Egyptians. The Set animal is one of the most frequently demonstrated animal determinatives ==Hieroglyphic representation== The ancient Egyptian Set-animal, Gardiner no. E20, E21, is one of the portrayals of the god Set. The other common hieroglyph used to represent Set is a seated god with the head of the Set animal, Gardiner no. C7. The linguistic use in the Egyptian language is as the determinative, for words portraying ''items with chaos'', example words related to ''suffering, violence, perturbation.'' Also for the 'violent storms' of the atmosphere, a ''tempest''.〔Betrò, 1995. ''Hieroglyphics: The Writings of Ancient Egypt, Section: "Set", ''variant "The mythic animal Set"'', p. 75.〕 According to Egyptologist Richard H. Wilkinson, the first known use of the Set animal was upon the Scorpion Macehead of King Scorpion, Dynasty 0. It was soon thereafter portrayed mounted upon the serekhs of Seth-Peribsen and Khasekhemwy.〔Wilkinson, 1992. ''Reading Egyptian Art'', ''Set Animal'', E20, E21, p. 66-67.〕 According to Angela McDonald, the Seth animal hieroglyph does not actually represent a living animal. It’s doubtful whether the hieroglyph of the Seth animal goes back to any animal in Egypt; it’s not possible to determine from what living creature the hieroglyph derived. Some Egyptian texts suggest that Seth took form dangerous animal, such as a bull or crocodile. Image:Louvre 122006 047.jpg|Relief with cartouche Image:Kmt obelisk.jpg|Obelisk text (close-up) Image:Paris Concorde obélisque 2.jpg|Obelisk text File:Sha (animal).jpg|The animal ''Sha'' (after an original by E.A. Wallis Budge) 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Set animal」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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