- Cult Center:
Busiris, later Abydos.
- Attributes:
Supreme god and judge of the dead. The symbol of resurrection and
eternal life. Provider of fertility and prosperity to the living.
- Representation: A
bearded man wearing white mummy wrappings. Wearing the atef crown
and holding the symbols of supreme power, the flail and crook. His
skin is green to represent vegetation or red to represent the earth.
See also the Osiris legend.
- Relations:
Son of Geb and Nut. Brother of Isis, Nephthys, and Seth and in some myths he is brother ofHorus. Husband of Isis
and father of Horus. Father of Anubis by Nephthys.
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