Originally earthly king and god of fertility, whose name is also made from the hieroglyph of the throne, after being killed and brought back to life, he was commissioned as the savior of the dead and ruler of the under World. Abydos was the center of his cult and was a destination for pilgrimages.
According to the Egyptian religion, Osiris was killed by his evil brother Seth who was the symbol of evil. With deception Seth made Osiris lie down in a chest, which he immediately closed and thrown into the Nile. The chest drifted and reached the shores of Lebanon, where it was finally found by Isis who brought it back to Egypt. Seth, however, managed to seize the chest and split Osiris’ body into many parts that he scattered across Egypt. Isis then went in search of the limbs, reassembled the body and revived Osiris to conceive Horus, who, using his mother’s magical powers, defeated Seth and restored the divine order again. In the book of the dead, there is a drawing of Osiris sitting on a throne in the afterlife with his wife Isis and his sister Nephthys next to him besides his four children around helping him in the judgment of a dead man. The ancient Egyptian always thought that Osiris makes a simple test for every dead person. He gets his heart out of his body and puts it in a side of the steelyard, and on the other side of it, he would put a feather. If the feather was heavier than the dead person’s heart, he would be eaten by Amamut (an animal with the body of a hippo, head of a lion, and a tail of a crocodile) and it would be his final fate as he was not a good person in his life. But if the heart was heavier than the feather, the dead person wears very silky clothes and goes to the garden (heaven) because he was a good person in his earlier life.
Travel to Egypt to visit the Egyptian temples and pyramids to learn more about the mythology and hundreds of Gods worshipped by the Pharaohs who were very much like humans they loved and hated, they felt jealous and fought and died during an amazing myth full of joyful, action and dramatic events that inspired modern movie directors and producers to create world-famous movies about the grandeur of the Pharaohs and the Gods they worshipped. Spend a few days to visit Abydos, Giza, Luxor, Aswan to see the tombs of the Pharaohs adorned with very clear, detailed and beautifully painted scenes of the various deities of ancient Egypt as well as many other sites, cities, adventures and things to do in Cairo, you can try and book one of our range of Egypt tours and Egypt Travel Packages many privately guided groups of Cairo day tours from airport and Egypt day tours to explore the capital city of Egypt, Cairo you can check a lot of Egypt itineraries or go on one of our full Cairo Day tours like:
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