The Death Of Seris: The Life Of Osiris

Plutarch, a Greek writer, who lived from 46 AD to 120 AD under the influence of the great Roman Empire, wrote one of the more complete sources there is on the Egyptian god Osiris. Plutarch based his narrative of Osiris as the god of death and resurrection and his control over the underworld also known as Duat. Osiris is also seen as the god of fertility and its connection to agriculture. Osiris was first created human form and later became deified. Osiris has a long connection with the Egyptian people “and one of Osiris’s earliest appearance is found on a block from the reign of King Izezi from the fifth dynasty,” (EGG) Due to Osiris being around for a long time there are many different meanings to his name and his origins, which can be found …show more content…
Isis was deeply grieved for the lost of her husband and as a sign of her lamenting she cut off a lock of her hair. Nephthys, who was the sister and lover of Osiris also was deeply moved by the death of Osiris. Nephthys had slept with Osiris and had given birth to Anubis, who is a jackal-headed god of the Egyptians. Isis figured this out while she was trying to find the body of Osiris and used Anubis to guard her. The great Nile River had carried the box all the way to the coast of Byblos in the present day nation of Lebanon. The box became trapped and enclosed in a tree. The tree was large and of great beauty and grabbed the attention of the local king. The king of Byblos decided he could use the tree as a pillar for his great palace. Isis soon learned of the location of the box in the pillar of the palace of the king of Byblos. When she arrived in Byblos, she decided that she could be the nurse of the king’s son. Isis was then able to transform herself into a swallow and flew around the pillar with the enclosed box while she mourned. However, Isis was soon discovered. She told her story to the king and queen. The queen took pity on Isis and had the box removed from the pillar. The body of the dead Osiris was too much for Isis to handle “as her mourning was so terrifying that it frightened and killed one of the queen’s son” (WW). When she finally stopped grieving over Osiris, she took his body back to Egypt …show more content…
Set then decided to tear the body into 14 different pieces and to scatter them all over Egypt. Isis again found out about the destructive actions that Set had taken against the dead body of Osiris. She was determined to find the pieces of her husband and when she did she constructed a tomb there for the piece. She was successful in finding all but one piece of the dead body. Osiris’s final piece of his body, which was his penis, was eaten by a fish. Isis created one to take the place of the missing one and a festival was born from this. The Egyptian people then worshipped Osiris at this