Osiris in Egyptian Mythology

Osiris in Egyptian mythology. He was the brother and husband of Isis, goddess of the earth and moon, who represented the female productive force in nature. He lived in the underworld as the ruler of the dead, but he was also, through Horus, regarded as the source of renewed life. He was not only a merciful judge of the dead in the afterlife, but also the underworld god that granted all life, including sprouting vegetation and the fertile flooding of the Nile River. At times he was considered the oldest son of the Earth god, Geb, and the sky goddess, Nut. Later he was associated with the name Khenti-Amentiu, which means 'Foremost of the Westerners' a reference to his kingship in the land of the dead. Usually being depicted as a green-skinned, green being the color of rebirth, pharaoh wearing the Atef crown, a form of the white crown of upper Egypt with a plume of feathers to either side. His wife Isis searched for his remains until she finally found him embedded in a tree trunk, which was holding up the roof of a palace in Byblos on the Phoenician coast. Murdered by his evil brother Set, whom Diodorus associates with the evil Typhon, Typhonian Beast, of Greek mythology. His brother Seth shut his body in a chest and threw it into the Nile, where it washed up onto the shore and was trapped in a huge tree.

Osiris is depicted with a man's head crowned wearing the tall white cap of Upper Egypt, his crossed arms hold the flail and hook of royalty. He was enclosed in the trunk of a tamarisk tree, which was later cut down and used as a pillar in the palace of the King of Byblos, he metaphorically became as one with the Tree of Life. Osiris became the Axis Munde around which the heavens appear to revolve, he became the World Pillar, the link between the terrestrial and celestial worlds. Being Water God, among a people like the Egyptians it would not be very long before the annual rise, and inundation, and fall of the Nile would be compared to the chief periods in the lives of men, and before the renewed rise of the Nile in the following year would be compared to man's immortality, which in Egypt was taken for granted from the earliest times, and this is what exactly happened, the hieroglyphic texts supply abundant proof.

Osiris governed by persuasion, not by force, became the most prominent god in the middle and new kingdoms among the common people of Egypt. The earliest written form of the myth is inscribed upon the walls of the chambers and passages in the pyramids of kings of the V and VI dynasties at Sakkhara, and hence known as the 'pyramid texts'.

Osiris is said to have been one of five children born to the god of the earth and the goddess of the skies, Geb and Nut respectively. He had four younger siblings who would also play critical roles in his story, his brother Seth and two sisters known as Isis and Nephthys. He died once again and descended to fully assume his duties as Egyptian god of the underworld. He remained as one of the most popular of all the ancient Egyptian gods to this day.

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