Osiris

"Osiris was the god of fertility, agriculture, the afterlife, the dead, resurrection, life, and vegetation in ancient Egyptian religion. He was classically depicted as a green-skinned deity with a pharaoh's beard, partially mummy-wrapped at the legs, wearing a distinctive atef crown, and holding a symbolic crook and flail. He was one of the first to be associated with the mummy wrap. When his brother Set cut him up into pieces after killing him, Osiris' wife Isis found all the pieces and wrapped his body up, enabling him to return to life." [Osiris, Wikipedia]

Harry Houdini referred to Osiris as one of the deeper mysteries of primal Egypt. According to the Egyptians, the soul of the deceased was weighed by Osiris, and after approval dwelt in the land of the blest. Osiris also restored the deceased person's ka so it could wander the upper and lower worlds and receive offerings. [HPL Pyramids (online text)]

Captain Cartaret felt that the ghost of Osiris still lurked in the Egyptian desert. [RB Fane]

Osiris was depicted as one of the seven heads on a silver symbol in the tomb of the Master. [RB Opener]

According to Ludvig Prinn's Saracenic Rituals, Great Osiris is one of the Egyptian gods who were based on secret realities. [RB Sebek]

The Probilski Foundation had a statue of Osiris, King of the Dead. [RB Strange]

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