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. . . .In
the wonderfully decorated burial
chamber of Ramses I, we
see the seated gods Osiris
and Khepri. Osiris was the king of the dead.
Legend has it he was the first king in Egypt to
be mummified. This mummification was performed by his grieving wife,
Isis. Osiris embodies the idea of rebirth in
the afterlife. He is shown as a mummy wrapped in white cloth. His
green skin represents the rebirth of vegetation after the annual Nile
flood. Khepri is the scarab-headed god. It was Khepri
who would push the barque of the sun on its daily journey across the
sky. He was also associated with rebirth in the afterlife.
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