Osiris (𓊩) — Death, Rebirth, the Underworld King

Wesir (Osiris) is the first mummy and lord of the Duat, who rules the dead from the throne of the afterlife. The Pyramid Texts recount his murder and dismemberment by Set, and his subsequent restoration by Isis and Nephthys, establishing the foundational mystery of Egyptian funerary religion: that death is not annihilation but transformation into an akh, a glorified spirit. As judge of the dead in the Hall of Two Truths, every deceased Egyptian sought to become 'an Osiris' — the Book of the Dead addresses the departed as 'Osiris [name],' identifying the individual soul with the god's own passage through dissolution and reconstitution.

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