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Spotchecks by Fayedizard Spotchecks for Osiris myth using revision [1] There are roughtly 126 cited sentances and we choose 10 randomly. I'm not going to support or oppose on the basis of this spotcheck, but it may raise issues that a delgate may wish to see resolved before promotion
- 1 "Osiris' revival is apparently not permanent, and after this point in the story he is only mentioned as the ruler of the Duat, the distant and mysterious realm of the dead. Yet in his brief contact with Isis, he has conceived his son and rightful heir, Horus. Although Osiris himself lives on only in the Duat, he and the kingship he stands for will, in a sense, be reborn in his son.[1]"
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- 2 "The new king performs funerary rites for his father and gives food offerings to sustain him—often including the Eye of Horus, which in this instance represents life and plenty.[2]"
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- 3 "but in the myth, the physical location is unimportant compared with its nature as an iconic place of seclusion and safety.[3]"
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- 4 "The myth of Osiris was very important in ancient Egyptian religion and was popular among ordinary people.[4]"
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- 5 "Through the magical healing texts, her efforts to heal her son are extended to cure any patient.[3]"
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- 6 "There are texts in which Isis travels in the wider world. She moves among ordinary humans who are unaware of her identity, and she even appeals to these people for help. This is another unusual circumstance, for in Egyptian myth, gods and humans are normally separate.[5]"
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- 7 "The ideology surrounding the living king was also affected by the Osiris myth. The Egyptians envisioned the events of the Osiris myth as taking place sometime in Egypt's dim prehistory, so that Horus, as the king, was regarded as the predecessor and exemplar for all Egyptian rulers. His assumption of his predecessor's throne and pious actions to sustain that spirit in the afterlife were the model for all pharaonic successions to emulate.[6]"
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- 8 "Some versions of the myth provide Set's motive for killing Osiris. According to a spell in the Pyramid Texts, Set is taking revenge for a kick Osiris gave him,[7]"
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- 9 "In late ritual texts, the conflict is characterized as a great battle involving the two deities' assembled followers.[8]"
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- 10 "The cohesive account by Plutarch, which deals mainly with this portion of the myth, differs in many respects from the known Egyptian sources. Set—whom Plutarch, using Greek names for many of the Egyptian deities, refers to as "Typhon"—conspires against Osiris with seventy-three other people. Set has an elaborate coffin made to fit Osiris' exact measurements and then, at a banquet, declares that he will give the coffin as a gift to whoever fits inside it. The guests, in turn, lie inside the coffin, but none fit inside except Osiris. When he lies down in the coffin, Set and his accomplices slam the cover shut, seal it, and throw it into the Nile. With Osiris' corpse inside, the coffin floats out into the sea, arriving at the city of Byblos, where a tree grows around it. The king of Byblos has the tree cut down and made into a pillar for his palace, still with the coffin inside. Isis must remove the coffin from within the tree in order to retrieve her husband's body. Having taken the coffin, she leaves the tree in Byblos, where it becomes an object of worship for the locals. This episode, which is not known from Egyptian sources, gives an etiological explanation for a cult of Isis and Osiris that existed in Byblos in Plutarch's time and possibly as early as the New Kingdom.[9]"
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