The Stela of Iykhernofret is an artefact that dates back to the Middle Kingdom. It contains an autobiography of an official named Iykhernofret, who lived during the reigns of Senwosret III and Amenemhet III in the end of the Twelfth Dynasty. The stela was found in Abydos, a city located on the western bank of the Nile in Upper Egypt’s eighth nome, relatively close to the Qena Bend. It is home to a necropolis – a vast burial site – in which the pharaohs from the Early Dynastic Period were buried. Over time, the ancient funerary connections of Abydos developed into a religious cultic center for the mummified funerary god of the Underworld, Osiris. The ancient Egyptians believed that Abydos was the location that Osiris was also buried.
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These traits represented kingship and a god of fertility. Being part of the Heliopolian Ennead, he was the brother to Seth and Isis. Both he and Isis were the parents to Horus. He was a funerary god, and his myth tells the story of how he became the first person to have died and be brought back to life as a mummy through magic. The “Osiris Myth” begins with Seth killing Osiris, potentially due to his envy for Osiris’ kingship or marriage to Isis. Seth cuts his body into pieces and throws them into the Nile to be scattered. In other variations, he drowns Osiris in the river. Upon hearing the news, Isis retrieves Osiris from the Nile with the help of her sister Nephthys and Thoth and mummifies him to make him whole again. Now brought back to life, Isis has intercourse with Osiris and is able to give birth to their child, Horus, a falcon-headed god also related to kingship. Osiris then prevails as the first mummy and Horus becomes the new target of Seth’s envy for the throne. This myth is fragmented; parts of it were found in texts such as Plutarch’s Isis and Osiris, Herodotus’ The Histories, and The Contendings of Horus and Seth from pChester-Beatty I. Parts of it also appear as early as some Utterances and Spells from the Pyramid Texts and the Coffin Texts,
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These traits represented kingship and a god of fertility. Being part of the Heliopolian Ennead, he was the brother to Seth and Isis. Both he and Isis were the parents to Horus. He was a funerary god, and his myth tells the story of how he became the first person to have died and be brought back to life as a mummy through magic. The “Osiris Myth” begins with Seth killing Osiris, potentially due to his envy for Osiris’ kingship or marriage to Isis. Seth cuts his body into pieces and throws them into the Nile to be scattered. In other variations, he drowns Osiris in the river. Upon hearing the news, Isis retrieves Osiris from the Nile with the help of her sister Nephthys and Thoth and mummifies him to make him whole again. Now brought back to life, Isis has intercourse with Osiris and is able to give birth to their child, Horus, a falcon-headed god also related to kingship. Osiris then prevails as the first mummy and Horus becomes the new target of Seth’s envy for the throne. This myth is fragmented; parts of it were found in texts such as Plutarch’s Isis and Osiris, Herodotus’ The Histories, and The Contendings of Horus and Seth from pChester-Beatty I. Parts of it also appear as early as some Utterances and Spells from the Pyramid Texts and the Coffin Texts,