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Osiris is the Egyptian god of the resurrection, symbol of regeneration and fertility, of the Nile, and he presides at the Court of the judgment of the deceased. His Egyptian name is Asar or Usir. In the modern languages he is usually named with the Greek form Osiris.
He is the chief of the triad of Tebas, formed by Isis, Horus and Osiris. In charge of judging the dead persons, is surrounded with 42 gods - judges who decides what will happen to the deceased.
Osiris was a cultural hero, mythical king, founder of the Egyptian nation, who taught to the men the civilization, the laws, the agriculture and how to adore the gods. He dies as man but resuscitates like immortally thanks to Thot.
By means of a cunning pitfall, his brother Seth murdered it, cutting his body in multiple pieces that he interspersed for the whole Egypt. His wife and sister Isis recovered carefully all the members less the virile one, who had eaten the fish mormyrus (oxirrinco).
With her powerful magic, Isis achieved to give new life to the mummified corpse of Osiris, which made her pregnant. They generated this way their only son, Horus, who avenged his father's death exiling Seth to the desert.
Osiris is almost always represented mummified, with the face black or green, an
Atef crown, the crook (heqa) and the whip (mayal) or cepter (uas). Occasionally, he assumes fish form. In the funeral texts, as the Book of the Dead, the deceased Pharaoh identifies with Osiris, king of the dead, in the same way that in life had done it with his son Horus. Very popular god, original of Busiris, was venerated principally in Abidos, Bubastis and Mendes.
The judgement of Osiris
It is the most important and transcendental event for the deceased, inside the set of credence of the Egyptian mythology. After his dead, the deceased was guided by the god Anubis before the court of Osiris. Anubis was extracting magically the heart and was placing it on the saucer of a scaleses.
Este era contrapesado con la pluma de Maat, símbolo de la Verdad. Mientras, un jurado compuesto por dioses le formulaba preguntas a cerca de su conducta pasada. Dependiendo de sus respuestas el corazón disminuía o aumentaba su peso. Thot, actuando como escriba, anotaba los resultados y se los entregaba a Osiris.
At the end of the judgment, Osiris was pronouncing sentence: If was affirmative, his Ka and his Ba could go to meet the mummy, conform the Aj and live eternally. But if the verdict was negative, his heart was thrown to Ammit, the devouring of the dead (a pathethic being with head of crocodile, long hair of lion, human torso and arms, and legs of hippopotamus), and finished him. This was named the second death and supposed for the deceased the end of his immortal condition .
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