Famous Founding Temples

Famous Founding Temples

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Several other Setite temples are old and prestigious enough that many Setites know their names. Most of these are Founding Temples themselves, although their cults differ only in minor details.

Ombos needs no other name than the town it lies beneath. This shrine is supposedly the Founding Temple, the one established by Set Himself. The sultan Baybars destroyed the Ombos temple. A cabal of Setites secretly rebuilt it late in the 19th century, but never told anyone except a few ancient Hierophants. Pilgrims and investigators who go to the village of Komm Ombo never find the Setite temple; instead they find a well-known but ruined temple to Set and Horus. Ancient, powerful magic hides the true Setite temple from everyone except the people invited by the priests.

The House of the Eclipse is buried beneath Cairo.

Eclipsan doctrine insists that for the Setites to become gods themselves they must kill the sun-god Ra. Clan rumor holds that the House of the Eclipse guards the clan’s greatest trove of magic and occult lore.

The Red Temple of Thebes and the Garden of Asps beneath Memphis have glorious pasts but are now nearly deserted. Both cities are ruined capitals of ancient Egypt.

A few elder priests remain to guard the temples’ archives of lore and magic artifacts.

The Crocodile Temple in the Faiyum is the Founding Temple of the cult of Sobek. Like the ancient cult, the Temple keeps a pool of sacred crocodiles ornamented with golden bangles — but these crocodiles are ghouled. One crocodile is said to be over a thousand years old, and to give oracles from Set’s childe, Sobek.

The Labyrinth of Bones lies beneath the city of Tunis.

The Setites tiled its walls, floors and ceilings with human bones: the dead of Carthage, looted from Tunis’ graveyards for 2000 years. A persistent clan rumor says that the Labyrinth of Bones holds several Brujah Methuselahs, excavated from Carthage and kept in torpor through stakes.

The Descending Aerie is an enormous cavern near Tangier, in Morocco. Over the centuries, the Moroccan Setites carved the walls of the central cavern so that the constant wind howls like a human voice. When the wind blows just right, it hums out a hymn to Set.

The Temple of Dogs is much younger than these others, but dominates Setite affairs in the British Isles. The temple is a joint venture by the Taweretan and Eclipsan cults, located on the Isle of Dogs in London (once a notorious abode of prostitution).

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