Editing Osiris myth (section)

===Resolution===
As with so many other parts of the myth, the resolution is complex and varied. Often, Horus and Set divide the realm between them. This division can be equated with any of several fundamental dualities that the Egyptians saw in their world. Horus may receive the fertile lands around the Nile, the core of Egyptian civilization, in which case Set takes the barren desert or the foreign lands that are associated with it; Horus may rule the earth while Set dwells in the sky; and each god may take one of the two traditional halves of the country, [[Upper Egypt|Upper]] and [[Lower Egypt]], in which case either god may be connected with either region. Yet in the Memphite Theology, Geb, as judge, first apportions the realm between the claimants and then reverses himself, awarding sole control to Horus. In this peaceable union, Horus and Set are reconciled, and the dualities that they represent have been resolved into a united whole. Through this resolution, order is restored after the tumultuous conflict.{{sfn|te Velde|1967|pp=59–63}}

A different view of the myth's end focuses on Horus's sole triumph.{{sfn|Pinch|2004|p=84}}<ref name=":0">{{Cite book |last=Pearson |first=Patricia O'Connell |title=World History: Our Human Story |last2=Holdren |first2=John |date=May 2021 |publisher=Sheridan Kentucky |isbn=978-1-60153-123-0 |location=Versailles, Kentucky |pages=29}}</ref> In this version, Set is not reconciled with his rival but utterly defeated,{{sfn|te Velde|1967|pp=66–68}} and sometimes he is exiled from Egypt or even destroyed.{{sfn|Meeks|Favard-Meeks|1996|p=29}} His defeat and humiliation is more pronounced in sources from later periods of Egyptian history, when he was increasingly equated with disorder and evil, and the Egyptians no longer saw him as an integral part of natural order.{{sfn|te Velde|1967|pp=66–68}}

With great celebration among the gods, Horus takes the throne, and Egypt finally has a rightful king.{{sfn|Assmann|2001|pp=141–144}} The divine decision that Set is in the wrong corrects the injustice created by Osiris's murder and completes the process of his restoration after death.{{sfn|Smith|2008|p=3}} Sometimes Set is made to carry Osiris's body to its tomb as part of his punishment.{{sfn|te Velde|1967|pp=97–98}} 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.{{sfn|Assmann|2001|pp=49–50, 144–145}} According to some sources, only through these acts can Osiris be fully enlivened in the afterlife and take his place as king of the dead, paralleling his son's role as king of the living. Thereafter, Osiris is deeply involved with natural cycles of death and renewal, such as the annual growth of crops, that parallel his own resurrection.{{sfn|Pinch|2004|pp=84, 179}}

An alternate version of the myths where Set is defeated has Osiris return to life after the fight between Set and Horus.<ref name=":0" />