Egyptian mythology - one of the oldest in the world.Over the years, the supreme god was the host country of the dead, the god Osiris, whose cult caused a sense of respect and fear.It was he who decided that he deserved the soul: eternal life or oblivion.Everyone got on his trial, which weighed good deeds and sins.
Divine Dynasty
Myths - it is always interesting.Ancient people believed that the gods are not alien to all men, and especially the feelings.Therefore, they fall in love, quarrel, had children.On this and tell tales.
Egyptian legends say that before the earth was boundless ocean.It was covered with the waves, cold and dead.The ocean called Nun.But once flew over the endless water phoenix and his cry changed expanses.On the surface came Atum - the first deity.After a few generations there was Osiris.God the patriarch realized that the sea freezes over again with no wind, and created his son Shu.With him was born and twin daughter Tefnut, who became the patroness of the ocean, and the order of thought.These were the two deities with one soul, feminine and masculine.Subsequently, it is the patroness of the water helped to create the world.
But the land remained dark.Father lost their children and have been looking for them.To find the first-born, he put out his eye and threw him into the water.Eye was to find children.But Atum handle himself so much, and was glad that there was a lotus from the water and from there to the god Ra - the master of the sun.He wept with happiness, and his tears turned into people.Later, this was a reflection of the god Atum.But eye, which spent force, hurt and anger became a snake.Then the Supreme God has placed it on his crown.
Shu and Tefnut became the first celestial couple.They had two children: Geb - the patron of the earth and Nut - the owner of the sky.They loved each other, that is not ripped arms.Therefore, from the beginning heaven and earth were joined.But when they quarreled, Ra ordered Shu wind to separate them.The goddess of the sky rose up.From the dizzy heights, why her father, the wind, the day supported her, and every night lowered to the ground.Mother Tefnut - the goddess of dew and rain - also kept a daughter, but quickly tired.When she was hard, the ground water flowed.
In the dark chickpeas met her husband.Ra found out about it, angry.He cursed Nut that she did not give birth.But through cunning Thoth, it is still able to have children, among whom was the god of Egypt - Osiris.
Wisdom
great god Thoth - chuck wisdom and magic - decided to help the celestial Nut.He went to the moon and won her cunning 5 days.Then Geb and Nut were children.The first was Osiris.His brothers and sisters became Nephthys - the ruler of the dead, Isis - Keep love and destiny, Seth - the evil.
When Osiris was born, the voice said that it will be the lord of all things.According to legend it was believed that he was a direct descendant of Ra.
Growing up, Osiris took the throne of his father Geb.It was the fourth pharaoh-god.The first thing he did was to take the throne - started to teach people wisdom.Before the savage tribes lived and ate their own kind.Pharaoh taught there and grow cereals.He came to the aid, which was a symbol of wisdom.Together they established the basic laws.He came up with the names, given names to things, gave written, taught art and various crafts.The Egyptian god Osiris told how to worship a higher power.He was a master of agriculture, and made all the work.In his will, people have learned to medicine and magic.Make wine and beer was brewed.With his installations built cities.Processed ore and copper.The board called the Golden Age.Ruling conducted without bloodshed and war.He married, in the family tradition, the sister of Isis, who fell in love with it while still in the womb.
put in order their land, he went to the neighboring region, which still was in chaos.Peace and wisdom began to rule other nations.On the throne survived by his wife, who passed on his knowledge to the people of the household and family life science.
Intrigue pantheon
While Osiris shared his experience, his brother Seth secretly in love with Isis.His feelings were so strong that he decided to remove his brother from the world.Set long sought supporters.Many of the demons was not like the situation.The brother of the god Osiris fashioned sarcophagus, get rich and embellished it with precious stones.Before he secretly measured the growth of the god of fertility.Then he made a feast, which invited the elite of Egypt.When the guests drank wine, Seth handed box.The audience gasped from the seen beauty.Chest liked them.Then the god of evil said give it to someone who will fit there perfectly.Each decided to try to get into the box, but it was a close one, the other long.When Osiris lay there, traitors and nailed shut the coffin lid.The trap worked.The box carried and thrown into the river.But for the sarcophagus has not suffered in the sea.
Egyptian mythology clearly indicates that beyond the Nile laid trait of life and death.The river carried him out of the country people in the kingdom of souls.God, who was considered eternal, moved into the world of the dead.
Learning about the trick, Isis began to mourn.She grieved for a long time and looked at the ground the body of a loved one.After a while, the woman suggested, where they saw the coffin.But the box was covered with heather, and one of the kings took him to his palace as a column.Isis found out about it and started to serve in the castle as a commoner.Subsequently, the inconsolable widow claimed the sarcophagus.Chopped Veres that stood post, later used as a symbol of the god Osiris.When they opened the lid, the goddess of tears.In Egypt, she hid the box in the Nile Delta.
Big power of divine love
was another reason why Seth hated brother.According to family tradition, the siblings are married.It happened in a pair of twins Shu and Tefnut, Geb and Nut.This fate awaited their children - Osiris and Isis, and Seth, plus Nephthys.
evil God was married to his second sister.But this woman sincerely in love with an Egyptian pharaoh and part-sibling.One night she was reincarnated in Isis and share his bed.Thus was born the son of the Duat Anubis, who became a master of mummification.Woman long concealed the truth from Seth.But when the situation turned against Osiris, she moved to the side of good and became an ally of the sisters.
Next events unfold as follows.One evening Seth went fishing on the Nile and came across a sarcophagus.In a fit of anger he cut his brother's body into 14 pieces and scattered them around the world.Poor Isis and her sister began to look for the body.The search was successful, we have found all the pieces except the phallus.Subsequently, it was replaced by clay.
there, taken from the body part, built the temple.Seth saw the sanctuary, and thought that the ashes be buried forever, not even knowing that the enemy wants to resurrect.
wife of the god Osiris and his sister Nephthys, friend and son Anubis He created a mummy.The trial lasted 70 days.Isis was sad because not had children.But due to the large magic, she turned into a bird Hat, said the spell and became pregnant.
Fate heir
a long time, a widow, who was waiting for the kid to hide.When giving birth, she said her son to avenge his father's death.The child was named choir.Isis raised him and waited for the day when justice will prevail.The whole pantheon of guarding her and the baby from the bad Seth.
when the chorus grew, there was a battle with his uncle for the throne.During the war, Seth knocked eyes nephew.One legend says that when the eye back to the owner, Chorus took him to a mummy.The son of the god Osiris stuck in the body of the deceased eyes, and he was raised.But the man did not belong to this world, and was to rule the kingdom of the dead.Before farewell father asked a few puzzles choir and saw that his son will be able to adequately replace him.Then he blessed the child to win.
Since the Egyptians believed that one goes way Osiris, that is, dies and is resurrected.And mummification of the body does not smolder.Likewise, God, and Nature is reborn every year.In that light, he weighs the sins of the people and serves the judge.
80 years continues to battle his uncle and nephew.Tired of the constant wars, Seth and Horus turned to the supreme gods.The court decided that the throne belongs to the son of Osiris.Seth became the ruler of the desert and storms.Egyptian God Osiris and his son were the last rulers of the mystical.When they ruled the earth people.
Portrait earthly god
image of this creature is extremely complex and has gone through many transformations.It is believed that his first name was Jed, and worshiped in the eastern Nile Delta.Then his essence merged with the face Andzhety, another patron of the city.So his hands were staff and whip shepherd.Over the years, he acquires new force, becomes king of farmers and acquires vine and lotus.
Since 1600 BC.e. he was portrayed as the sprouted grains.
At the end of the New Kingdom was associated with RA.The image of the god Osiris was supplied with the solar disk on his head.
Standing at the head of the dead, he has not ceased to be drawn among the riot of plants.Before kicking overflowing pond where lotus grew.Next to put the tree on which sat the soul in the face of the Phoenix.
kingdom of the dead
left the earthly world, God became the ruler of the dead.Mythology says that he led 42 of the deity, which decided the fate of the deceased.Anyone who has passed into the next light entering the room of the two truths.The man said the oath of renunciation, the essence of which is that the speaker began with the prefix phrase "not" not broke, do not deceived.
then passes weighting procedure.On the scales put on one side the heart of the deceased, the other - a feather of the goddess of truth.For all observed Osiris.God determines the fate after death.There were two options: happiness Iaru fields, where joy and gladness, or a sinner's heart gave Ammutu monster that dooms him to eternal death.
Cult of the afterlife was so great that in the era of the New Kingdom Osiris was the highest among the gods.Hence, there was a new theory.From now on, the eternal existence of waiting for not only the rich but also the poor.A ticket to paradise - about the existence, morality, humility.
On notions of the Egyptians, all the good things that the world had to take care of loved ones, since death was seen as a deep sleep.To a man after awakening could live a normal life, mummified body.It was not a whim, but an integral part of the practice.
Court god Osiris evoked feelings of fear and awe.And he was not only the first mummy, but also the founder of the cult of the dead.
image of the dark lord
Lord shower ancestor became the unofficial literature and fine arts.The strength to inspire people to create stories about his exploits.They are depicted on the walls and parchment.Most of the pages devoted to it in the "Book of the Dead."These works reveal the image of God.
Like all heavenly creatures, Osiris was partially man.The judge met subjects sitting.His legs were bandaged.In his hands were the symbols of power - hook and chain.
God Osiris in ancient Egypt was a characteristic feature of it.It was the crown bears the name "Atef".It is this crown was from papyrus.The color white, attached to the sides two red ostrich feather.From above they are curled.Sometimes oblong cap had ram's horns.This is the crown of the researchers recognize the frescoes god of darkness.
You can find drawings depict where Osiris green.This is a reference to his earthly reign, where he was a patron of fertility and agriculture.If God is red, then the color of the soil.Also in his hands it can be a vine, in fact, he taught people how to make wine.Not uncommon image of the god plant the trees.
oldest find a mural that was created during the reign of Pharaoh Dynasty V Dzhedkara - approx.2405-2367 BC.e.It depicts the god Osiris.Photos with thousand-year history, is of interest both for scientists and for ordinary citizens.
Egyptian gods of Greece and Christianity
of the gods of ancient Egypt, the world first learned of the Greek thinkers.Josephus, Julius Africanus and Eusebius of Caesarea in detail studied the history of the neighboring kingdoms.But most of all contemporaries derive from studies of Plutarch.This man wrote a treatise "On Isis and Osiris."Many interesting things can be found in his work.The only negative - in a work full of Egyptian weaves Greek myths.For example, there is an error associated with the name "Osiris."God is with this name did not exist in Egypt, but it was a cult Ushiro.We know the name of a language closer to Plutarch.There are other replacement Ra became Helios, Nut - Rhea, Thoth - Hermes.And the main character has become a winemaker Dionysius.
Many scholars see common features of the Egyptian Christ.Thus, both taught people wisdom and offered bread and wine as his body and blood.
And it all started with the fact that archaeologists have found prayer, dated thousandth BC.She repeated word for word, "Our Father."We spend a lot of parallels the birth of two gods.Mary learned of the blessed child of the archangel, and chickpeas from an unknown voice.Next Isis hiding with his son from the evil Seth, like Mary with Jesus.
Ancient Egyptian god Osiris was specially conceived for slaves, who were hoping for a different, better life after death.Just treat the essence of the Christian faith.
Another relationship of Jesus and Osiris - the death and resurrection.
symbol - the sarcophagus
Name Ushiro mankind has been known for more than five thousand years.The word "Tro-Iri" and did not have an exact translation, but most scholars believe that it means "one who goes his own way."It was one of the most popular cults of Egypt, it is not surprising that his image is often found in art.Not surprisingly, he devoted fetishes.The subject of the Osiris was Jed.
first attributes to the cult - wooden poles with fixed connections wheat.For their festive red ribbon tied - belt.It was a symbol of new life and the season.In different regions of the fetish made its own way.Sometimes they were bundles of reeds.
After popularizing the myth of Isis found that the vertical coffin with her husband in Veres, Jed began to be perceived as the backbone of the god.An important role played in the post change of kings.None of the coronation was not carried out without this symbol.
Every spring Jed placed vertically.This meant the defeat of Seth and peace, who brought Osiris.God got the victory when the constellation of Orion was hidden behind the western horizon.
small figurines were used as talismans.
