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noun - Egyptian god of the underworld and judge of the dead
The ancient Egyptian god whose annual death and resurrection personified the self-renewing vitality and fertility of nature.
OSIRIS - Osiris (, from Egyptian wsjr, Coptic ) is an Egyptian god, identified as the god of the afterlife, the underworld, and rebirth. He was classically de...
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| (Jimmy of the Clue Crew reports from Giza, Egypt.) Once entombed in a pyramid, a dead king became identified with this god of the underworld, Horus's father |
| Paradise in the Egyptian afterlife was in this god's "field of reeds" |
| The ancient Egyptian ceremony of the judgment of the dead was also called the judgment of this god of death |
| His cult centers included Abydos in upper Egypt & Busiris in lower Egypt |
| Egyptians studied The Book Of The Dead to help them get past this presiding god into paradise |
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| Set, the evil brother of this Egyptian god, tricked him into lying down in a chest; it became his coffin |
| He had a wife, Isis & an evil brother, Set, who was sometimes represented as an ass |
| Seth, the Egyptian god of chaos, was a jealous adversary of this brother, the god of the underworld |
| This Egyptian god's many burial places were considered sacred ground |
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| Egyptian god of the underworld and judge of the dead husband and sister of Isis father or brother of Horus |
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| Osiris, MISSOURI, UNITED STATES |
| Osiris, UTAH, UNITED STATES |
| Osiris, Santa Cruz, BOLIVIA |
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Osiris (, from Egyptian wsjr, Coptic ) is an Egyptian god, identified as the god of the afterlife, the underworld, and rebirth. He was classically depicted as a green-skinned deity with a pharaoh's beard, partially mummy-wrapped at the legs, wearing a distinctive crown with two large ostrich feathers at either side, and holding a symbolic crook and flail. * Osiris was at times considered the eldest son of the god Geb, though other sources state his father is the sun-god Ra, and the sky goddess Nut, as well as being brother and husband of Isis, with Horus being considered his posthumously begotten son. He was also associated with the epithet Khenti-Amentiu, meaning "Foremost of the Westerners", a reference to his kingship in the land of the dead. As ruler of the dead, Osiris was also sometimes called "king of the living": ancient Egyptians considered the blessed dead "the living ones". Through syncretism with Iah, he is also the god of the Moon.Osiris was considered the brother of Isis, S |