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Its one of his associated animals. Hooved animals are associated with him a lot. The Cult of Horus in the later stages of Egypt’s history would slaughter pigs as a representative of Horus’ victory over seth. 

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Newberry, P. E. 1928. “The Pig and the Cult-Animal of Set.” Journal of Egyptian Archaeology 14: 211-225

Set was pictured as a man wearing a red mantle with an arrow-tail and the head of a Set Animal. Set was also shown as a crocodile, a donkey (thought to be his especial pet), an oryx, a snake, a leopard, a jackal, a hippopotamus, a dog, a turtle, a griffin, a scorpion, and as a black pig. It was thought that Set assumed the shape of many animals because he was born without a definite shape, due to his restlessness – he even impatiently burst out of his mother’s womb. In some myths Set crawled out of his mother’s mouth instead, because he was too impatient to wait for a normal birth. In the temple of Hibis in the el-Kharga Oasis Set is represented as a winged figure slaying the serpent Apophis, a depiction which some scholars believe may have provided the original inspiration for the Christian motif of St. George and the dragon.

As in the case of the hippopotamus, the male pig was associated with the evil god Set and shunned, while the sow was associated with a benevolent goddess. As early as the 1st Dynasty, faience or ebony statuettes and amulets of a rooting sow nursing her litter were popular, representing the goddess Nut. These amulets were often given at the time of the New Year, and were buried with the dead.