Osiris, god and mythical king of Ancient Egypt

Osiris is a god in Egyptian mythology who founded the Egyptian civilization by introducing laws and agriculture. Osiris represents the regeneration of the Nile River and the underworld.

Osiris is represented with green or black skin, with an atef crown, the heka crook and the whip or the uas center. The green color of his skin represents the color of vegetation and regeneration, in turn the black color is related to the fertile and black land that in each overflow of the Nile River produced new life in the countryside.

Osiris myth

According to Egyptian mythology, Geb (the earth) and Nut (the vault of heaven) had four children:

• Osiris: king of the afterlife,

• Seth: represents chaos and the desert,

• Isis: the goddess of the goddesses of Egypt

• Nephthys: symbolizes night and death.

Osiris becomes the god of the underworld due to the envy and revenge of his brother Seth for his achievements in the civilization of the Egyptian nation, in addition to having Anubis with his wife Nephthys, having confused her with his wife Isis. The myth tells that Seth, to get rid of his brother, had a beautiful coffin built with the exact measurements of Osiris to present it at a party where all the Egyptian gods and deities would be.

At the celebration, Seth offers the box as a reward to those guests who manage to fit in perfectly. Thus Osiris was tricked into the coffin. Seth kills his own brother by sealing the box and throwing him into the Nile River to later crown himself as the new king of Egypt.

Isis finds her husband and brother Osiris dead following the current of the Nile and watches over him outside of Egypt. Seth is afraid that the powers of Isis can bring Osiris to life so he finds the body, tears it into seven pieces and spreads it throughout Egypt.

The goddess Isis manages to recover all the parts of Osiris's body except for the genitals. With the help of Anubis, Isis manages to resurrect Osiris, spawning Horus in the process. The resurrection of Osiris makes him the god of the underworld presiding over the Tribunal of the judgment of the soul.

Some years later, Horus defeats Seth in battle. Seth was captured and brought to trial before the court where the god Thoth condemns him and passes the throne of Egypt to Horus.

Osiris and the Catholic religion

Studies of comparative mythology indicate that the stories about the life and work of Jesus Christ are an adaptation of ancient Egyptian legends because in the myth of Osiris they consist of elements repeated by the creators of Christianity, such as:

• Both Osiris and Jesus Christ were resurrected on the third day.

• In ancient Egypt, the death and resurrection of Osiris was celebrated in the same way that Christians honor the death and resurrection of Jesus Christ.

• In terms of symbolism, Osiris and Jesus Christ are both represented by a cross despite having different meanings: in the case of Osiris, the cross represents life, while the cross of Jesus Christ symbolizes torture.

  

  

Epithets

Osiris is a complex god whose presence is manifested throughout the Egyptian territory. Integrates multiple facets; His functions as a funerary god are well known, but he is also a divinity who watches over the proper functioning of the universe. Its beneficial action is manifested in the appearance of the stars or in the seasonal cycle of vegetation.

Therefore, Osiris appears to his devotees under a wide variety of names. Since its inception it was invested with the epithet "He who has many names" (ash renou). This accumulation of epithets and names can be seen in chapter 142 of the Book of the Dead. This text allows the deceased to access eternal life in the likeness of Osiris; To do this, the deceased enumerates a list of one hundred and fifteen epithets linked to the name of Osiris. The more names the faithful enumerate, the more they will recognize and accept the power of the invoked divinity. In the text, different functions of the god and the different cities where his cult is present are cited without a specific order:

• Osiris, the Good-Being Lord of Life,

• Osiris, Lord of the Universe,

• Osiris, Master of the Temple of Abydos,

• Osiris, god Saa and god Orion,

• Osiris, Lord of the Temples of the South and North, (...)

• Osiris-Ptha, Lord of Life,

• Osiris, Prince of the Re-stau, who dwells in the Necropolis-Mountains,

• Osiris, who dwells in Anti, Sehtet, Nedjeft, (...)

• Osiris-Sokari of Ped-Seh and of Pesg-Re,

• Osiris, who dwells in his city,

• Osiris, who dwells in Heaven,

• Osiris Nebjesti, he of the great knife,

• Osiris, Lord of Eternity,

• Osiris, who lives in the waters and decides the fate of battles,

• Osiris, Prince covered with mummy's bandages,

• Osiris, Lord of Tanent and Nedbit, (...)