Yahweh is Set is Typhon

The Egyptian religion associated Sinai with Set because it lay beyond the ordered Nile world—arid, dangerous, inhabited by thieves and shepherds. In Egyptian geography, such borderlands belonged to Set’s domain, standing outside Maʿat, the principle of cosmic and political order.

It is precisely this region that the Book of Exodus places at the center of Yahweh’s cult. Yahweh appears not in a city or temple civilization, but in the wilderness, on the lawless Sinai Peninsula, to a fugitive murderer (Moses), from a burning bush, amid smoke, storms, and earthquakes. From an Egyptian perspective, a storm-god emerging from the eastern desert and acting violently against Egypt would have been understood as a foreign desert god, operating within the chaotic sphere of Set.

When Greek authors later encountered Egyptian theology, they equated Set with Typhon, the cosmic adversary of Zeus. Typhon was imagined as buried beneath unstable landscapes—volcanoes, deserts, marshes, frontier zones—where the earth “breathed” suppressed chaos. At the northern coast of Sinai sits a marshland Plutarch called “Typhon’s Breathing Hole” reflecting the chaos and rebellion on the eastern margins of Egypt—a treacherous ecosystem adjacent to the Sea of Reeds (later mistranslated as the Red Sea) which Yahweh "parts" to let the Israelites pass through, then releases, crushing the Egyptian army in the deluge.