Why is a god losing to a vegetable?????
ARE YOU TELLING ME THAT HORUS BABY TRAPPED HIS UNCLE WITH LETTUCE?????
In Horus' (and Isis', who is the one who actually performed the act of dressing the lettuce with the semen) defence, Seth did first try to rape him to disprove his claim on the throne.
Also related fun fact: In one iteration of this myth, the semen is asked to come out of Seth through his ear, which it does in the shape of a golden halo. Thoth then snatches the halo from Seth and puts it on his own head as the moon. So in this case, Seth is technically responsible for birthing the moon.
Just to clarify from my understanding of this myth, the reason Horus babytrapped his uncle with cum-lettuce is because Seth (as previously stated) tried to rape him to show that he was unfit for leadership--and then spread the message that Horus was a bottom and therefore shouldn't be king.
Except Horus and his mother came up with the cunning "make him eat cum-lettue" plan, so when Seth went bragging that he'd fucked Horus, the gods used their X-ray vision to see that it was actually Seth who had semen inside him, how embarrassing.
And people ask me why I love studying mythology SO MUCH. :)
"N. K. Jemisin! Why is there so much weird god-sex in your works?"
Well, you see, I read a lot of mythology, growing up.
