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The Death of Osiris
At a banquet, Set produces a beautiful chest measured in secret to his brother’s body, and promises it to whoever fits inside. Osiris lies down in it. The lid closes.
Isis recovers the body; Set carves it into fourteen pieces; Isis finds thirteen of them. What she rebuilds becomes the first mummy, the judge of the dead — and the father of his own avenger. The full illustrated telling is in production.
The characters
Osiris
The good king · first of the dead
The king who taught the world agriculture and law, tricked into a coffin measured to his own body. He does not come back to life; he becomes the reason there is life after it.
Set
The red lord · his brother
Envy with a crown. He seals his brother in the chest at a banquet, then carves the recovered body into fourteen pieces and scatters them the length of the Nile.
Isis
The great enchantress · his wife
She searches every marsh of the Delta for the pieces of her husband, rebuilds him with words of power, and conceives the avenger while he lies between death and throne.
Horus
The falcon · the posthumous son
Born of a dead father and a relentless mother, raised in hiding in the marshes to take back the throne — the original heir-in-exile story.
Where in time this story sits
From the Pyramid Texts and Plutarch’s "On Isis and Osiris" — the myth every mummy was buried inside.