The original form of the myth states that Osiris was killed by a wooden sarcophagus secretly being made to his measurements by Set, who was jealous of Osiris's position as king, and so plotted to kill him and take his place. A party had been held where the coffin was offered to whoever could fit inside. A few people tried to fit in, but to no avail. Osiris was encouraged to try, but as soon as he lay back, the lid slammed on him and was locked. It was then sealed with lead and thrown into the Nile. Upon hearing that Osiris was gone, Isis set out to look for him. She later learned that the coffin had floated down the Nile river up to the coast of Byblos (now in modern day Lebanon) and got embedded in the trunk of a cedar tree. She also learned that the cedar tree had been taken and used as a pillar to support a palace for the king of Byblos. After explaining the situation to the queen of Byblos and getting her permission, she managed to extract the coffin without harming the palace and took Osiris' body out into the desert and buried him back in Egypt.
Again, Set found Osiris' coffin, took his body out, and dismembered him into 13 parts, scattering them across the land of Egypt. Each part represented one of the 13 full moons (each year has 12 or 13 full moons[1]).
Once again Isis set out to look for the pieces and she was able to find and put together 12 of the 13 parts, but was unable to find the 13th, his penis, which was eaten by the oxyrhynchus fish (a fish with an unusual curved snout resembling depictions of Set). Instead, she fashioned a phallus out of gold and sang a song around Osiris until he came back to life.
Osiris was resurrected. So it was that Isis conceived Horus. Due to this experience, Osiris became Lord of the Dead, and the Afterlife. [2]
The act of evil in drowning Osiris was said to have been the work of 72 unnamed conspirators, who were led by Set. This references the legend in which 1/72nd of the moon's light was said to have been won by Thoth for the birth of the five major gods: Set, Nepthys, Osiris, Isis, and Horus. Each 1/72nd of the moon's light given for the five days signifying an individual piece of darkness left in its place during the 360.[citation needed] This legend was itself based on the fact that 1/72 over 360 days, the length of the year in the older Egyptian calendar, produces five whole days, reflecting the duration of the newer 365 day Egyptian calendar.
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in unrelated news, kudos ed templeton!
from the toy machine site...
An e-mail we got recently, and a response:
From: "Name Deleted"To: MattBarker@tumyeto.net
Sent: Saturday, December 27, 2008
Subject: Just wanted to say...
I bought one of your decks the other day and I was really excited to try it out until I noticed that your
company openly supports Barack Obama. I can't believe you have the nerve to try and influence young kids
politically by posting his name on your product web page. Just sad. I will not be buying anything from Toy Machine
or any company affiliated in the future.
Sincerely,
Former Customer
My Response:
Good.
We at Toy Machine are not journalists and have no obligation to be unbiased or “fair and balanced.”
If you want “fair and balanced” watch Fox News.
We are a skateboard company that promotes personal expression.
We don’t wear blinders to what is happening in our world.
Any person who looked at our website during the election was free to post a comment.
If you would have looked at that, you would have seen a lively debate both for and against Obama.
Making a buck does not come before my right to voice my opinion.
Toy Machine will not cower silently in the corner hoping people buy our boards because a few Republican nut-jobs don’t want us to “Influence Young Kids”
“Young Kids” can’t vote anyway.
You are within your rights as a consumer to not buy our boards and I applaud your political spending practices.
I spend politically every day. And I would never knowingly support a company that supported George Bush.
Not supporting companies you don’t like is the real power we regular people have in this country.
Most companies only listen to dollars, so taking their dollars away is a great way to make them change.
But in this case, Toy Machine doesn’t want your dollars if it means staying quiet at a time when staying quiet is so obviously stupid.
Ed Templeton
Posted January 9th, 2009
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