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Man sailing on his starboat with the head turned to opposite direction to the boat's course . We know that in the Texts of the Pyramids are recovered stellar, solar and osirian traditions; Orión is a part of one of them, the stellar one, probably the most ancient.
This constellation had been assimilated to the dead king, fused to Osiris, since the monarches, on having died, were transforming in stars. It was formed by a set of stars of the otherworld that had the faculty to emerge in the sky.
It was intimately related to Isis (star Sothis), which was the one that was marking the beginning of the new year and the arrival of the annual rise of the river Nile, whereas Orión (identified with Osiris) it was the symbol of the slime fertilizer that was remaining placed in the grounds after the waters had moved back. With this mythological game one was trying to emphasize the death and the resurrection, putting it in parallel with the facts happened in the Underground World.
In the Texts of the Pyramids it appears as " Master of the Wine ", in link with a holiday that was celebrated in honor of the deceased, named Uag and in the Book of the Dead persons he is " the Master of the Life ", a way of designating Osiris.
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