osiris is the god of judgment, the beyond and vegetation, being considered one of the most important and popular in Egyptian mythology.
The cults of Osiris were very common and are recorded from 2400 BC onwards. Ç. For this reason, several temples were erected in his honor.
These celebrations took place annually around 2000 BC. Ç. which were promoted at festivals and marked the entire cycle of life, birth, death, rebirth, in addition to the blessing of fertility.
Symbology
Also called Usir or Ausar, Osiris is related to life in the afterlife as he was assigned the job of judging the dead.
For this, the king of the resurrection weighed the heart of each one. This process was called "psychostasis" and took place in the "room of two truths." So, according to the result obtained, he decided the fate of the people.
He is also worshiped as the god of agriculture because this process also implies death and rebirth of life.
After harvesting, fields experience emptiness until they are sown again to produce again.
Osiris, therefore, symbolizes rebirth, resurrection, justice and fertility.
representation of osiris
The representation of Osiris is of a mummified king with a beard and a head adorned with a crown. His skin is greenish or black, as a way of indicating that he is, in fact, dead.
Its figures, dated from the New Kingdom, period between 1539 to 1075 a. a., they reveal it with arms on the chest and holding in each one of the hands a staff and a whip.
Osiris Story
Osiris was the son of Geb, god of the earth, and of Nut, goddess of the sky and mother of the gods. He had three brothers: Set, god of war, violence and chaos; Nephthys, goddess of death; and Isis, goddess of love, nature and magic.
Set married his sister Nephthys and Osiris his sister Isis. Osiris' role was to govern the ancient empire, while his brother was in charge of governing the desert. Certainly, this caused discomfort in Set who becomes very jealous of his brother.
At this, Set prepares a trap to kill Osiris. When he managed to trap him in a sarcophagus, he was thrown into the Nile River.
Aware of what had happened, Isis is desperate and goes after her husband's body, to bury it with dignity.
Fearful that his sister would find the body, Set divided it into 14 pieces and distributed the parts of Osiris' corpse throughout Egypt.
With the help of her sister Nephthys, the goddess Isis unearthed all the pieces, except for the phallus (penis) which had been replaced by a vegetable stem. After the event, he is mummified and Isis turns into a bird, which has the power to resurrect Osiris.
Through their sexual union, Isis gave life to her son, Horus, god of the rising sun, who avenged his father's death by killing his uncle Set.
Thus, Horus comes to rule Egypt, and Osiris, who was resurrected, comes to live and rule the underworld. There, he was responsible for judging people by weighing their hearts.
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