The death of Osiris.

It turned into a banquet like Egypt had never seen earlier than.

The warrior god Set and his spouse, the goddess Nephtys,

adorned an extravagant hall for the event,

with a stunning timber chest as the centerpiece.

They invited all of the most important gods, dozens of lesser deities,

and foreign monarchs.

however nobody brought on as massive a stir as Set and Nephtys’s older brother Osiris,

the god who ruled all of Egypt and had delivered prosperity to all people.

Set announced a sport—

whoever ought to in shape flawlessly within the chest could have it as a gift.

one at a time, the visitors clambered in, but no one match.

sooner or later, it became Osiris’s flip.

As he lay down, everybody ought to see it was a super fit—

every other win for the god who ought to do no incorrect.

Then Set slammed the lid down with Osiris nonetheless inner, sealed it close,

and tossed it into the Nile.

The chest become a coffin.

Set had constructed it particularly to lure his brother

and planned the birthday party to trap him into it.

Set had long been jealous of his brother’s a hit reign,

and was hoping to update him because the ruler of all Egypt.

The Nile bore the coffin out to sea and it drifted for many days

earlier than washing ashore close to Byblos, wherein a extraordinary cedar grew around it.

The essence of the god inside gave the tree a divine aura,

and whilst the king of Byblos noticed it,

he ordered the tree cut down and taken to his palace.

Unbeknownst to him,

the coffin containing Egypt’s maximum powerful god become nevertheless inside.

Set’s victory appeared whole, however he hadn’t counted on his sisters.

Set’s wife Nephtys become additionally his sister,

while their different sister, the goddess Isis,

become married to their brother Osiris.

Isis turned into determined to find Osiris,

and enlisted Nephtys’s help at the back of Set’s back.

the 2 sisters took the form of falcons and travelled a long way and wide.

some children who had visible the coffin float via

pointed them to the palace of Byblos.

Isis adopted a brand new disguise and approached the palace.

The queen changed into so charmed via the disguised goddess

that she entrusted her with nursing the baby prince.

Isis determined to make the kid immortal with the aid of bathing him in flame.

whilst the horrified queen came upon this scene,

Isis discovered herself and demanded the tree.

when she reduce the coffin from the trunk and opened it,

Osiris turned into useless inside.

Weeping, she carried his frame back to Egypt and hid it in a swamp,

at the same time as she activate searching for a method of resurrecting him.

but even as she become long gone,

Set determined the frame and reduce it into many portions,

scattering them in the course of Egypt.

Isis had lost Osiris for the second time, however she did no longer surrender.

She searched all around the land, touring in a ship of papyrus.

one after the other, she tracked down the components

of her husband’s dismembered frame in each province of Egypt,

preserving a funeral for every piece.

At long last, she had recovered each piece however one—

his penis, which a fish within the Nile had eaten.

working with what she had, Isis reconstructed and revived her husband.

but with out his penis, Osiris was incomplete.

He could not stay most of the dwelling,

couldn't go back to his vintage function as ruler of Egypt.

rather, he would should rule over Duat, the area of the useless.

earlier than he went, even though, he and Isis conceived a son to endure Osiris’s legacy—

and someday, avenge him.