Osiris is the god of fertility, agriculture, the afterlife, the dead, resurrection, life, and vegetation in ancient Egyptian religion.
He was described as a green-skinned deity with a pharaoh's beard, partially mummy-wrapped at the legs, wearing a distinctive atef crown, and holding a symbolic crook and flail.
Osiris can be considered the brother of Isis, Set, Nephthys, and Horus the Elder, and father of Horus the Younger.
The first evidence of the worship of Osiris was found in the middle of the Fifth Dynasty of Egypt (25th century BC),
Most information available on the Osiris myth is derived from allusions contained in the Pyramid Texts at the end of the Fifth Dynasty.
Osiris was the judge of the dead and the underworld, and the agency that granted all life, including sprouting vegetation and the fertile flooding of the Nile River.
OSIRIS
God-King of Duaz
The ruler of Duat, Osiris built the realm out of his very being, to be a home for the people he would call his.
To find these people, he travelled far and wide, gathering those who wandered alone or in bands in the darkness,inspiring them with promises of a golden, civilized realmand leading them back to Duat.
There, he keeps hispromise, teaching them agriculture, art, and all the othertrades and crafts of the civilized world.
Osiris instructs us to consider our plans for the future-- consider the long-term consequences, but not to be afraid of risk, or to limit ourselves unduly.
It is only through commitment and de-cisive action that anything lasting is accomplished.
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