Osiris Research Paper

Osiris is one of the most commonly known gods of Egypt. Osiris is the god of the dead and the afterlife. Other meanings for the god Osiris are the god of rebirth and fertility#, and Chief Judge of the Underworld as well as god of resurrection, the Inundation, and vegetation.# Osiris is almost always shown as a man wrapped as a mummy. He is often holding a crook and flail, with an atef-crown.#

There is a myth of how Osiris became the god of the afterlife. It was told that Osiris had married his sister Isis, a custom which the Pharaohs of Egypt followed there after, and his brother Seth married Nephthys. Seth, the evil one, envied Osiris and hated Isis. The more that people loved and praised Osiris, the more Seth hated him and wished to