The Myth of Osiris

---My name is Osiris. I am the Egyptian god of the underworld. Not only I was a merciful judge of the dead in the afterlife, but also the underworld agency that granted all life, including sprout vegetation and the fertile flooding of the Nile River. But before I became the god of the underworld, I will tell you how I became the Egyptian god the underworld, my death, and the resurrection of myself. It all started when I was born, my parents were Geb and Nut. You may know them as Geb, the god of the Earth, and Nut, the goddess of the sky. My siblings were Isis, Set, Nephthys, and Horus. You'll probably know them as Isis, the goddess of motherhood, magic, and fertility, Set, the god of storms, chaos, and the desert, Nephthys, the goddess of the Night and Lamentation, and Horus, the god of the king, the sky, and vengeance. But the sibling I hated the most was Set because this is what caused my death. Set envied my power and my popularity by sending me in a coffin. I tried to get out of the coffin but it was seal with lead. Set led the coffin too adrift in the Nile River. But luckily, my wife Isis, which is also my sibling, she tracked down my coffin and she returned it to Egypt. My brother, Set, got so angry he cut the body in to pieces and scattered across Egypt. But Isis found the pieces, made wax copies of them so it will be worshiped in a temple. She preserved my body with linen and bandages; she breathed life back to me. I stand up with pride and I later became as god of the underworld and my skin was green to symbolize my rebirth. My apprentice was a jackal-headed god of cemeteries and embalming and his name was Anubis. As I walk the underworld, I will still be the god of the underworld.


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