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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■

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