The Myth of Osiris

The Myth of Osiris

Osiris

In the very beginning of time Osiris was the king of Egypt and his queen (and sister) was the goddess Isis.
He was beloved by the people whom he told how to worship the gods and grow their crops for their daily bread. His brother Set became jealous and tried to overthrow him and become king himself. When participating in a feast with Osiris as host, Set began to describe a beautiful coffin he had, in a way that made the other guests curious.

Isis

He was asked to fetch it and so he did and this was just in line with his plan. Everyone agreed on that it was a magnificent piece and Set told them that he would give it away to whomever fitted exactly into it. Since he had made the coffin himself it was measured to fit one person only - his brother Osiris. When he placed himself in it Set and his fellows quickly nailed the lid and threw it into the Nile. Queen Isis was overcome by sorrow and began to search all over the land for it, but in vain.

One day she heard that a wonderful tree had sprung on the shores of Byblos in the north on the Eastern coast of the Mediterranean Sea, where the king had cut it down and built a palace from it.

Horus

Isis understood that this was the place where the coffin had come to shore and she went there in disguise. She got job at the court as a hairdresser for the queen and now when she could walk freely inside the castle she began to look for the coffin, and finally she found it. She took it and left for Egypt by boat and came to the marshlands in the delta. There she opened it and took a last farewell of her beloved husband Osiris and began searching for a suitable place to bury him. But Set was aware of all this and was hiding nearby. When Isis went to rest for the night he snatched the coffin and cut his brother's body into fourteen pieces and spread them all over Egypt. Isis became furious and asked her sister Nephthys and her son Anubis, the jackal, to help her to regain the pieces of her husband's body.

Nepthis

Set

They now started a nation wide search that lasted for many years and finally all the part were found except for the penis which had been thrown into the Nile where it was devoured by a catfish.
Isis made a wooden replacement for it and then put the whole body together. She now asked the sun god Re to make her husband alive just for one day, which he did, and they could have a last night of love together. The next day Osiris died and his body was enbalmed by Anubis who thus made him the first mummy. Isis later gave birth to a son who was named Horus and she did all she could to keep it a secret from Set, but he found them and almost killed them in an ambush. 

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