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Egyptian Mythology
I. Setting of Siblings
a. Osiris
i. King who ruled over the
Earth
1. Brought civilization
to Egypt
b. Isis
i. Possessed great skill in the
working of magic
ii. Very beautiful
iii. Becomes wife of Osiris
c. Seth (Or Set)
i. Powerful god
1. god of the desert
a. Foreign lands
b. Storms
c. Chaos
i. Lack of order
II. Murder
a. Osiris was king of the world
i. Wife was the beautiful Isis
b. Seth Jealous
i. Of his brother’s power
ii. Of his brother’s wife
c. Seth kills Osiris
i. Scatters his dismembered
body throughout Egypt
III. Resurrection
a. Isis mourns her husband’s
death
i. Tears so great they become
the Nile
b. That night
i. Although distraught over the
death of her husband
ii. Gathered up pieces of Osiris
iii. Revives him by performing
the first mummification
process
1. Process and
spells/prayers
iv. Osiris is reborn in the
underworld
1. resides there as king
of the afterlife
v. He and Isis had a son Horus
1. Falcon head
IV. Revenge
a. The rule of Seth was not
good
i. Land fallen into chaos
1. Lawlessness
ii. nothing grows
iii. People not happy
b.
Horace grows into manhood
i. Determined to avenge his
father’s death
ii. Set and he battle for three
days
1. Lightning was the
spear used by Horus
2. Thunder the scream
let out by Seth as the
Spear wounds him
3.
Horus loses an eye
a. Becomes the moon
iii. Horus about to finish Seth
1. Isis takes pity on her
brother and lets him
escape
a. Banished to the
North
2. Horus is king of
Egypt
a. Father king of the
afterlife
V. Egyptian Belief
a. On earth, every Pharaoh
ruled the earth as Horus
i. When he died, Ruled as
Osiris, lord of the afterlife
1. Osiris was to the
Egyptians the god-man
who suffered, died, and
rose again
a. Made acceptance
of Christianity easy
b. Egyptians believed that they
would inherit eternal life
i. Just as Osiris had done
ii. Provided that they followed
the same path
1. mummification
a. Used amulets
b. Magical texts
c. Ceremonies
2.
to compel Osiris
a. And the gods who
brought about his
resurrection
b. To act on their
behalf and allow
passage into the
afterlife
c. Anubis leads deceased to a
scale
i. Heart is weighed against a
feather
1. if heavy, not a good
life
a. eaten by Ammit
i. Crock/lion/hippo
god
1. three fearful
animals in
Egypt
2.
if equal
a. Horus takes you to
Osiris
i. Thoth, god of
wisdom, records
ii. Osiris grants
permission to enter
the afterlife