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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