deity
Osiris
An Egyptian god of the justified dead, dismembered and restored in myth. His rebirth is a royal-funerary plot, not a seasonal slogan.
Also known as Wsjr
Egyptian religion
Osiris is associated with Rebirth.
Osiris is restored after dismemberment in Egyptian myth. The restoration is a royal-funerary plot, not a snake-shed.
from Raymond O. Faulkner (translation) · Book of the Dead, New Kingdom spells; Faulkner trans. 1972
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Osiris is associated with Duat.
The justified dead may join Osiris’s condition. The below is an Egyptian court and field, not Hades.
from Raymond O. Faulkner (translation) · Book of the Dead, New Kingdom spells; Faulkner trans. 1972
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Osiris is associated with Green.
Some Egyptian images give Osiris a green face. Green here is a funerary color of restored life, not ordinary leaf-theology.
from Raymond O. Faulkner (translation) · Book of the Dead, New Kingdom spells; Faulkner trans. 1972
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Osiris is associated with Death.
Osiris is a dead god who remains a king of the dead. Death and kingship meet in that Egyptian office.
from Raymond O. Faulkner (translation) · Book of the Dead, New Kingdom spells; Faulkner trans. 1972
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Isis is connected to Osiris.
Egyptian myth has Isis search for and restore Osiris. The plot is a royal-funerary one, not a Greek Demeter search copied backwards.
from Raymond O. Faulkner (translation) · Book of the Dead, New Kingdom spells; Faulkner trans. 1972
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Nile is associated with Osiris.
Later Egyptian religion can join Osiris to the river’s life. The pairing is an Egyptian agricultural-funerary meeting, not a Greek river-god.
from Raymond O. Faulkner (translation) · Book of the Dead, New Kingdom spells; Faulkner trans. 1972
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Descent is associated with Osiris.
Egyptian funerary hope is a going through the below toward Osiris’s condition. The itinerary is a descent with a solar night road.
from Raymond O. Faulkner (translation) · Book of the Dead, New Kingdom spells; Faulkner trans. 1972
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Rebirth is associated with Osiris.
Egyptian rebirth-talk in the spells is often a joining to Osiris’s condition. The god is the local name of that hope.
from Raymond O. Faulkner (translation) · Book of the Dead, New Kingdom spells; Faulkner trans. 1972
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Djed is sacred to Osiris.
The Book of the Dead treats the djed-pillar as Osiris’s backbone-sign. A named pillar of that god, not the tyet, and not a generic column.
from Raymond O. Faulkner (translation) · Book of the Dead, New Kingdom spells; Faulkner trans. 1972
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Ushabti is sacred to Osiris.
The Book of the Dead sends the ushabti to answer for the dead in the fields of Osiris. A named funerary servant of that god’s estate, not the heart-scarab, and not a generic tomb-doll.
from Raymond O. Faulkner (translation) · Book of the Dead, New Kingdom spells; Faulkner trans. 1972
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Hellenic religion · Late antiquity
Isis is connected to Osiris.
Plutarch’s treatise On Isis and Osiris is a Greek philosophical retelling of an Egyptian pair. It is a secondary meeting, not the spells of the dead, and should not be used as if it were an Old Kingdom handbook.
from Plutarch · On Isis and Osiris, c. 100 CE
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sources
- Book of the Dead · Raymond O. Faulkner (translation)
Raymond O. Faulkner, The Ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead.
- On Isis and Osiris · Plutarch
Plutarch, On Isis and Osiris (Moralia).