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""Myths of Egypt" God Osiris
The God Osiris
20-11-2016, 11:53 0 mamaLena 0
The god Osiris (Usyr) is one of the central characters of Egyptian mythology.
This is not just the god of the underworld and the judge of the souls of the deceased: Osiris was revered primarily as the god of rebirth and resurrection, awakening and renewal of nature and man.
The originality of this deity is emphasized by the image:
Osiris was depicted as a swaddled mummy with a green face and freely placed hands; in his hands the god holds a heket (scepter) and a nekhehu (flail) – symbols of royal power.
Family
Osiris is the son of the earth god Heb and the sky goddess Nut.
In other words, this god had both an earthly and a heavenly essence.
Subsequently, Osiris was honored to be the lord of the underworld, since then this god has become truly all encompassing.
Biography
It is curious that such an ancient deity as Osiris has an eventful biography comparable to the biography of real life celebrities (kings, generals, heroes).
The main myth about Osiris is one of the most interesting in the entire religious system of Ancient Egypt.
There was a time when Ra ruled Egypt.
He was succeeded on the throne by his son Shu, and that by his son Geb.
After him, Osiris, the son of Heb, sat on the throne.
And his reign was very fruitful for the country and its people.
Osiris taught the Egyptians gardening, agriculture and winemaking.
However, Osiris had an envious person the cruel Set, who wanted to rule in his place.
Set was the god of war, death, chaos and destruction, and he did not stand on ceremony with his noble brother ruler: he killed him, after which he was able to legitimately take the throne.
He threw the body of Osiris into the Nile beforehand.
The deceased had a faithful wife, Isis, who was also his sister.
She found what was left of her husband, and mourned for him for a long time, until the great Ra took pity on her.
He sent Anubis, the jackal headed god, who collected the body parts of Osiris that Seth had cut up, put them together and swaddled them to get a mummy.
The body was assembled, but one part was missing – the phallus.
Isis made it out of clay and attached it to the mummy of her husband.
Then she turned into a female vulture (in another version – a falcon), united with her dead husband and became pregnant by him.
Thus was born Horus, who was destined for the mission of the avenger.
Horus fought with Set and defeated him, defending his right to take the throne.
In this battle, Seth knocked out his eye, which turned into a sacred Ouadget – a magical symbol.
Horus gave it to Osiris to swallow, and he was resurrected.
However, he decided not to stay on earth, leaving it to his son, and went to the kingdom of the dead, where he replaced Anubis on the throne.
Anubis remained in the realm of the dead as a guide and gatekeeper.
By the way, during the battle with Set, Horus repaid him as if in the same way that he did with Osiris: he castrated him, depriving him of his basic divine essence.
Osiris was the patron of a number of areas, and depending on the period of his unctions changed somewhat.
Osiris is a dying and resurrecting deity.
Patron of the productive forces of nature; Patron of Kings;
The ruler of the kingdom of the dead, the judge who receives the souls of the dead.
Agricultural Deity
In the drawings, Osiris was always or almost always depicted surrounded by greenery.
Even his crown is woven from papyrus stalks, and the " jed " scepter consists of bundles of reeds inserted into each other.
A lotus grows in front of his throne, trees rise or a vine twists.
Grapes are especially often accompanied by images of Osiris, which in some cases is completely covered with its thickets.
The agricultural function of Osiris suggests that this deity is very ancient – probably one of the most ancient Egyptian gods.
The death and resurrection of Osiris is also a reflection of the observations of primitive farmers for the change of climatic seasons, to which the original calendar was tied.
The ritual funeral of the deity symbolized the sowing of seeds, his resurrection – the appearance of seedlings, and the murder – the cutting of ears of corn.
Osiris was perhaps the first known dying and resurrecting god.
The resurrection of Osiris was preceded by the mourning of the dead body by a woman (Isis), in a similar late Antique myth about Hercules, his corpse is mourned by Vestals);
After the resurrection, the deity did not want to stay on earth, but was transported to the kingdom of the dead (the Egyptians had it under the ground);
From the cult of Osiris, later religions (Zoroastrianism, Christianity, etc.) borrowed the image of the scales on which god in the kingdom of the dead weighs the good and evil deeds of the dead; Osiris was a god primarily of the social lower classes, who hoped for his fair trial and a place in paradise.
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