![]() ![]() When the god king returned, and the glorious feast commenced. Set invited all the deities and kings of nearby countries to the feast, but he also prepared a special surprise – a beautiful gold-gilded wooden chest with the precise size and dimensions of Osiris’ body. Set commenced by preparing a feast in Osiris’ honor, he said, to commemorate his return. One day, while Osiris had left his throne to visit other lands and left Isis to rule in his stead, Set began to put the pieces of a convoluted plan into place. For while Osiris continued to be a great ruler and had the full support and adoration of the people of Egypt, Set’s resentment of his brother had only continued to grow. However, this was only the beginning of Osiris’ story. Meanwhile, Set married Nephthys and became a god of chaos, begrudgingly living in his brother’s shadow.Īrtist’s impression of Set by Son of the Pharoah. First, the children grew, and Osiris married his sister Isis, eventually becoming king of Egypt. Regardless, with Nut’s children out of her womb, the prophecy of Ra’s fall could finally commence. According to some versions of the myth, there was also a fifth child, one for each of the five days, the god Haroeris or Horus the Elder. She used that time to birth four children: the first-born son Osiris, his brother Set, and their two sisters Isis and Nephthys. Those five days didn’t belong to the year, however, but were designated as festive days every two consecutive years.Īnd thus, Ra’s command was circumvented – Nut had five whole days to give birth to as many children as she wanted. He managed to make five whole days, which he added at the end of the 360 days that were already in a full Egyptian year. The second step was for Thoth to use that light to create more days. The moon god eventually admitted defeat and retreated, leaving Thoth with a hefty supply of light. The two played multiple games and Thoth won every time, stealing more and more of Khonsu’s light. The bet was simple – if Thoth could beat Khonsu, the moon god would give him some of his light. ![]() The first step of that plan was to challenge the Egyptian god of the moon Khonsu to a board game. Unwilling to accept this fact, Ra commanded Nut not to bear any children on any day of the year. The inception of Osiris’ myth begins with a prophecy told to the sun god Ra, the then-supreme deity of the Egyptian pantheon. With his great wisdom, he realized that a child of the sky goddess Nut would one day dethrone him and become the supreme ruler over gods and men. This myth is often described as the most detailed and influential of all the ancient Egyptian myths mainly because its effect on Egyptian culture was widespread, influencing Egyptian funerary rites, religious beliefs, and the ancient Egyptian views on kingship and succession. After Osiris’ death, the myth focuses on how his son avenges him, challenging his uncle’s usurpation of the throne. The myth covers the murder of Osiris at the hands of his brother, his restoration by his wife, and the offspring that was the result of an unlikely union between Osiris and his wife. Starting long before Osiris’ birth and ending long after his death, his myth is full of action, love, death, rebirth, and retribution. Shu and Tefnut were the children of the sun god Ra-Atun, and all of these deities make up the Great Ennead, four generations of gods who created and ruled the earth.The Osiris myth is one of the most fascinating and surprising myths in Egyptian mythology. Geb and Nut were the children of the creator gods Shu (Life) and Tefnut (Maat, or Truth and Justice) in the First Time-together they gave birth to Osiris, Seth, Isis, and Nephthys. Osiris was the firstborn child of the earth god Geb and the sky goddess Nut, and was born in Rosetau at the western Desert necropolis near Memphis, which is the entrance to the underworld. Primary Sources: Pyramid texts, coffin texts, Diodorus Siculus, and Plutarch.Parents: Firstborn of Geb and Nut one of the Ennead.Realms and Powers: Duat (Egyptian Underworld) God of Grain Judge of the Dead.Earliest Representation: Dynasty V, the Old Kingdom from the reign of Djedkara Isesi.Culture/Country: Old Kingdom-Ptolemaic period, Egypt.Epithets: Foremost of the Westerners Lord of the Living The Great Inert, Osiris Wenin-nofer ("he who is everlastingly in a fine condition" or "beneficent being.". ![]()
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