The Cohort of Wepwawet (sometimes also called Wepwaret) is a Setite cult that is mainly observed by Warrior Setites. It is dedicated on preserving the “purity” of Theophidian faith. The Cohort traces itself back to Wepwawet, an apocryphal childe of Set rumored to lay in Torpor beneath their Founding Temple, the Arena of Thunder, near Abu Simbel. The Cohort began as a cult of Warrior Setites devoted to protecting Egypt from foreign invaders. It declined after the Purge of Baybars, but rapidly grew in the 1960s when cultists said that Wepwaret had awakened from a long torpor. In the 1970s, the Cohort launched a revival campaign to bring heterodox Setite cults in line with the “true and ancient Theophidian doctrine.” It lacked support from other cults, equally ancient and powerful, who disagr