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Seth, as Bunsen and others have shown, is not only the “primitive God” of the Semites—early Jews included—but also their “semi-divine ancestor.” For, says Bunsen (God in History, i. 233, 234): “The Seth of Genesis, the father of Enoch (the man) must be considered as originally running parallel with that derived from the Elohim, Adam’s father.” “According to Bunsen, the Deity (the God Seth) was the primitive god of Northern Egypt and Palestine,” says Staniland Wake, in The Great Pyramid (p. 61). And Seth became considered in the later Theology of the Egyptians as an “evil demon,” says the same Bunsen, for he is one with Typhon and one with the Hindû Demons as a logical sequel.