The Osirian legend

The Osirian myth occupied a great place in ancient Egyptian literature. For the first time in the paragraphs of the texts of the pyramids, the reference to this myth is a group of dispersed texts that are not interconnected with each other. Despite that, it gives an idea of ​​the main elements of the myth, and there may be multiple sources that indicated To the events of the Osirian legend.

This myth talks about killing “Ozer” at the hands of his brother “Set”. Opinions differed about his murder. The first opinion is that he cut off the envy of Ozer and threw his remains in the Nile. A city that includes a part of the body of Uzir. There are some indications to that in the body of the pyramids and explain the evil that Set did with his brother, Ozer, and that “Uzir” was killed by “Set” in more than one location.

And the other opinion claims that Ozer has drowned. After the drowning of Osir, he installed the idol “Geb” “Hor” as king of Lower Egypt, in the place where Ozer drowned. After the death of Ozer, the gods grieved him. The goddess Isis, the sister and loving wife who remained in it for her husband and She travelled south and north to search for Ozer, and was helped by her sister, “Nephthys,” despite her being the wife of the deity “Set,” and the texts likened her to the two gardens. Many signs indicate that they have searched for him and found him either on the ground or pulled him out of the water, and together they regrouped his organs and started mourning for him, guarding and watching over him. Isis sought the help of magic skills, and turned in the form of a bird and fluttered its wing and sent the breath of life into the lifeless body and landed on it and accepted its kindness and gave birth to Hor the heir, and the oldest reference to this event in the body of the pyramids.

As for Poplar’s childhood in the Delta jungles, it was full of dangers, given that he had been brought up in an area far from Ain Set to be in a safe place in the city of Bhutto. Many scenes spread, especially during the late-era, which depicted Isis, namely She carries her child on her stone in the bushes, including those scenes that were depicted more than once on the walls of the Temple of Hibs, as well as many similar scenes that were received on the walls of the Ptolemaic temples.

There is an indication in the body of the pyramids to take care of Isis for her son. There are many references to the goddesses protecting “Hor” alongside his mother, “Isis”, and “Nephthys”, and that the cow “Sahat” breastfed him and the goddess “Nate” was behind him. The goddess “walked” in front of him. Hence, the gods “Isis, Nephthys, Nate, and Selkat” were considered goddesses of protection, and they were depicted on the surface of the coffins spreading their wings. It seems that Hour’s childhood was full of dangers by some dangerous creatures and reptiles, after what his mother concealed from the eyes, especially from Sitt and his aides. Still, she was able to protect him thanks to her extraordinary ability in magic. Here, the prevalence of paintings known as “Magic Hor” appeared From the beginning of the Twenty-Sixth Dynasty onwards. It contained magic spells and prayers that I think protected their owners from snakes, scorpions and all kinds of reptiles. They were placed in homes or supplied to the deceased in his grave to ensure that harm and evil were kept from him in his other world at all times. Hor Ali depicts these paintings are naked, standing on two crocodiles, and holding snakes and scorpions in his hand, or a lion or a ferocious animal, and all these creatures symbolize the forces of evil or the deity “Seth”.

Finally, “Hour” comes to his father, as he raised Ozer with the help of Jahuti and brought him to the city of “Iono” to stand before the court of deities headed by the idol “Jeb”. The call was made against “Set”, who initially denied the incident of his attack on Osir, and the paragraphs of Mouton referred Al-Ahram for this, and at the end of the court, and after a long struggle, the innocence of Ozer was confirmed, and the truthful voice was considered and condemned “six” and the ruling was announced in favor of Uzir, and the court recognized the deity “Hor” a legitimate king on his father’s throne on the ground, and that those who sit on a throne after him are his successors (Kings Egypt) It should be noted that the idol “Geb” was the prince of the gods and heir to the throne after each of (Atum, Shu and Tefnut), in the formation of the divine family, and the throne of “Geb” is considered to be the throne of the kings of ancient Egypt later, as the one who ruled the world in the beginning was The first divine family, which is the great divine council, “the great ninth” in Heliopolis, and it consists of: (Atum, Shu, Tefnut, Jeb, Nut, Ozer, West, and Nephthys) and they were followed by the followers of “Hor” who ruled the world after a period of the rule of the “Great Ennead” until the rise of the first historical family, Kings consider themselves the successors to the idol “Geb” within the historical context, where The idol “Geb” is considered according to ancient myths, the father of the idol “Ra” from the goddess “Nut”, who gives birth to him every morning. Thanks to this fatherhood, “Geb” deserved the title of Prince of the Gods, and he was the one who granted his earthly authority to “Wazir then Hor” and the last of the kings. He called it the heir of Jeb.