CLAA05H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Ammit, Qift, Osiris Myth
3 Jun 2018
School
Department
Course
Professor
Myth
Osiris Myth
Who
Osiris (king of the underworld)
Isis (sister/wife of Osiris)
Seth (god of chaos)
Nephthys (sister/wife of seth)
Horus (son of Osiris and Isis)
What
• Osiris and Isis were ruling Egypt
• Seth was jealous of Osiris because he got
married to Isis and he was a king Egypt
• Seth arranged a banquet and created a
chest by measuring the height of Osiris
when he was asleep
• Seth made a game (anyone who fits in this
chest will win)
• Osiris fits perfectly in the chest and Seth
closed the chest to prevent Osiris from
getting out of the chest
• Seth covered the chest in lead and threw
the chest in the Great Green Sea
• Isis mourned about his loss and tried to
searh for Osiris’s ody
• Isis heard a rumour that his chest was in
the tree trunk in Byblos
• Isis reached Byblos and the tree was not
there
• Isis heard that the King of Byblos cut the
tree and made a pillar for his palace
• Isis made friends with the servants at
Byblos and was recommended to the
queen
• Queen gave her the responsibility of caring
her young son
• Isis ured the youg prie’s ortal parts
and flew over the pillar as a bird
• Queen was furious when she saw her son
was burning as a ball of fire
• Isis explained that her husband was inside
the pillar
• Isis took the chest to Egypt and placed
somewhere so that Seth would find
Osiris’s ody
• Seth found his body and cut him into 14
pieces and spread around the waters of
Egypt
• Isis and Nephthys turned into a bird and
searched for his parts to put them
together
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Document Summary
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