OSIRIS

Osiris was a diety in ancient Egypt. He was associated with fertility and the vegetation.

He was also the principle of spiritual rebirth. Osiris was the son of Geb and Nut.

His brother Set was very jealous of Orisis. One day Set was able to trick Osiris to get into a chest which was then thrown into the Nile.

The body was retrieved but when Set found out he tore it into 14 pieces and spread it around all the Kingdom.

All the pieces except one where recovered by the wife of Osiris, Isis. Using magic she embarmed Osiris and restored him to life.

AFTERLIFE, an elaborate set of buriel rituals

BURIAL, elaborate burials

EMBALMING, the embalming process

MUMMIFYING, the embalming process

COFFINS, the style of coffins

FUNERALS, the funeral process

GOD CENTRES, each district had its own gods

TEMPLES, public were almost never allowed inside

ONE CREATION, creation was a gradual process

THE KING, claimed descent from the gods

ANIMALS, were thought sacred

OSIRIS, associated with fertility

HAPI, god of the nile

HORUS, fought in the form of a sun disk

KHEPRI, the rising sun

PTAH, creator god of memphis

SET, god of darkness

THOTH, god of the moon

NUIT, sky goddess

GEB, god of the earth

NEPHTHYS, goddess of death

MAAT, goddess of truth

ISIS, goddess of magic

BES, god of childbirth

HATHOR, egyptian goddess of heaven

HEKAU, sacred words of power

SCARAB, the symbol of khepera

SAHU, the spiritual body

RA, egyptian sungod

BA, the soul represented as a bird

COFFIN TEXT, inscriptions on sides of coffins

BAST, cat headed goddess

BENNU, legendary bird thought to be the reincarnation of osiris.

EGYPTIAN BOOK OF THE DEAD, written between 1100 b.c. and 900 b.c.

KA, double of the human body

HORBEHUTET, ancient egyptian winged disk

CATS, the use of cats in ancient egypt

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