Following Seth's long and unsuccessful battle with Horus for the Egyptian throne, the goddess Neith suggested to the council of gods that Seth be awarded a loser's prize: the "foreign" daughters of Re were offered to him as his wives. The involvment of these divine consorts, Anat and Astarte, may be connected with Seth's own affinity with the foreign gods Ba'al and Reshep.

One day as Seth was walking by the Nile, he came across the goddess Anat, bathing in the stream. He changed himself into a ram and raped her. But Anat could only be impregnated by divine fire, and so her body expelled his semen with such force that it struck him in the forehead, making him dangerously ill. Seth was relieved of his punishing headache by Re, whom Isis sent to cure him. In another myth, of which only a part has ever been found, the gods of Egypt were in conflict with the sea god, Yamm, and were coming off the worst. Yamm demanded tribute of gold, silver and lapis lazuli, which was duly brought to him by the goddess Renenutet. However, having received these treasures, he became greedy for more, and insisted on further tribute. He threatened that, if his demands were not met, he would enslave every gon in Egypt. In despair, Renenutet sent to Astarte, who was famed both for her beauty and her ferocity. The messenger, in the shape of a bird, begged Astarte to carry the extra tribute to Yamm. Reluctantly, Astarte agreed. But when she reached the shoreline, her fiery nature got the better of her and she began to taunt the sea god. Alternately outraged by her impudence and bewitched by her beauty, Yamm demanded that he be given Astarte as well as the treasure. The Goddess Renenutet retired to deliberate with the gods, who acceded to the sea god's demands and furnished Astarte with a dowry consisting of Nut's necklace and Geb's signet ring. Seth, however, rebelled against losing his beautiful wife. Tantalizingly, the remainder of the story is lost. But the outcome, surely, was that, whether by force or by guile, Seth overcame the sea god, saved Egypt's pantheon from slavery, and returned from the adventure with Astarte.