Editing Osiris (section)

==Mythology==
{{further|Osiris myth}}
[[File:Jewel Osiris family-E 6204-IMG 0641-gradient.jpg|thumb|upright=.9|The family of Osiris. Osiris on a [[lapis lazuli]] pillar in the middle, flanked by [[Horus]] on the left and [[Isis]] on the right ([[Twenty-second Dynasty of Egypt|Twenty-second Dynasty]], [[Louvre]], [[Paris]])]]
[[Plutarch]] recounts one version of the Osiris myth in which [[Set (mythology)|Set]] (Osiris' brother), along with the Queen of [[Aethiopia|Ethiopia]], conspired with 72 accomplices to plot the assassination of Osiris.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=VBfgAAAAMAAJ&q=plutarch+%22queen+of+ethiopia%22+osiris+%22seventy+two%22&pg=PA76 |title=Plutarch's Moralia, On Isis and Osiris, ch. 12 |access-date=2012-05-01|year=1874 |author1=Plutarch }}, or [https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Plutarch/Moralia/Isis_and_Osiris*/home.html Babbit translation].</ref> Set fooled Osiris into getting into a box, which Set then shut, sealed with lead, and threw into the Nile. Osiris' wife, [[Isis]], searched for his remains until she finally found him embedded in a [[Tamarix|tamarisk]] tree trunk, which was holding up the roof of a palace in [[Byblos]] on the [[Phoenicia|Phoenician coast]]. She managed to remove the coffin and retrieve her husband's body.

In one version of the myth, Isis used a spell to briefly revive Osiris so he could impregnate her. After [[embalming]] and burying Osiris, Isis conceived and gave birth to their son, Horus. Thereafter Osiris lived on as the god of the underworld. Because of his death and resurrection, Osiris was associated with the flooding and retreating of the Nile and thus with the yearly growth and death of crops along the Nile valley.

[[Diodorus Siculus]] gives another version of the myth in which Osiris was described as an ancient king who taught the Egyptians the arts of civilization, including agriculture, then travelled the world with his sister Isis, the [[satyr]]s, and [[Muse|the nine muses]], before finally returning to Egypt. Osiris was then murdered by his evil brother [[Typhon]], who was identified with Set. Typhon divided the body into twenty-six pieces, which he distributed amongst his fellow conspirators in order to implicate them in the murder. Isis and Hercules (Horus) avenged the death of Osiris and slew Typhon. Isis recovered all the parts of Osiris' body, except the [[phallus]], and secretly buried them. She made replicas of them and distributed them to several locations, which then became centres of Osiris worship.<ref>"Osiris", [[Man, Myth & Magic (encyclopedia)|Man, Myth & Magic]], S.G.F Brandon, Vol5 P2088, BPC Publishing.</ref><ref>"The Historical Library of Diodorus Siculus", translated by George Booth 1814. retrieved 3 June 2007. [https://books.google.com/books?id=agd-eLVNRMMC Google Books]</ref>