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Revered from around 3000 BCE to 400 ACE throughout the region, but, particularly on the Giza Plateau, along the Nile Delta, and at Karnak in Thebes. He was depicted in the Book of the Dead, numerous coffin texts, sculptures, papyrus illustrations, Pyramid Texts, sculptures, and stone reliefs. An Egyptian father god and protector of the pharohs in the Otherworld afterlife, Osirīs was usually portrayed as a human man with his body wrapped in mummy linen, wearing a white conical crown of rams' horns with tall plumes. His arms, which were left free, held a crook and flail.
He was also sometimes
depicted with green skin signifying his status as a vegetation god. As a grain
god, he was sometimes revered as a grain sack filled with green sprouted seeds.
As a fertility god, statues of him with pronounced male members were carried by
women who manipulated them as they paraded through the streets of Egypt during
festivals.
Osirīs was also esteemed by the Greeks who dedicated a major sanctuary to him at Philae in Greece. His Egyptian devotees considered him crucial in regard to the Egyptian kingship since each new king donned the mantle of his son Horūs while they were embodied on the Earth. Once they died, however, they donned the mantle of the afterlife Otherworld Osirīs. Most of the legends about Isīs, Osirīs, and Horūs are allegorical in nature. There are hidden spiritual truths within the wording of the texts. Take for example the story where Seth dismembers Osirīs and scatters his body parts throughout the landscape. What really happened was that Osirīs suffered intense soul essence loss during his interdimensional encounters and struggles with Seth. Seth, who had stolen and siphoned off this treasury of divine attributes, powers, gifts, light matrix energies, and skills of Osirīs, then wantonly distributed them widely, as spoils of war and blunder booty, to his contingent of cohorts. As a Shamanic Healer, Isīs used her lost soul essence retrieval skills to eventually restore everything back to the way it was in his light matrix. Their son Horūs, assisted her in this Shamanic Healing process.
Osirīs also had an abode
in Sumeria where he was known as the god Lugalbada, a post-diluvian shepherd
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