Osiris King of the Dead.

• 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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