Osiris
Osiris · Egyptian King of the Afterlife — God of Resurrection and Abundance
Ancient Egyptian god of the underworld, resurrection, and fertility. Son of Geb and Nut, husband of Isis. Murdered by his brother Set and dismembered, his body was reassembled by Isis and resurrected; thereafter he reigned as king of the underworld Duat, judging the souls of the dead. Depicted as a mummiform figure with green or blue skin.
Origin
Among the oldest of Egyptian gods, worshipped before the New Kingdom. Originally a god of grain and fertility, his myth of murder and resurrection by Set transformed him into the eternal symbol of death and rebirth — tied yearly to the Nile flood cycle.
Features
- Mummiform king with green or blue skin
- Atef crown (two feathers and ram's horns)
- Crook and flail of kingship; sheaves of grain
- Enthroned to judge the souls of the dead
Stories
Central to Egyptian funerary rites — every deceased was addressed as 'the Osiris [Name],' praying to be resurrected like him. Farmers buried grain figures shaped in his image annually, awaiting their sprouting as a sign of his return.
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Seraphim
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Ophanim
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