. The Mythology of all races .. . wing connected myth,using Plutarchs sketchas a basis whereverpossible and markingthe most importantvariants by brackets. Osiris, who was es-pecially fine of faceand tall, was a childof the earth-god, Qeb,and the sky. Nut(p. 41), as a new im-personation of the was born on thefirst of the five epa-gomenal days whichclosed the year andwhich were regardedas particularly sacred.^With him his twin sis-ter, Isis, saw the light[some sources, however, state that she was born on the fourthepagomenal day]. When his birth is described as from theocean, like his son
. The Mythology of all races .. . wing connected myth,using Plutarchs sketchas a basis whereverpossible and markingthe most importantvariants by brackets. Osiris, who was es-pecially fine of faceand tall, was a childof the earth-god, Qeb,and the sky. Nut(p. 41), as a new im-personation of the was born on thefirst of the five epa-gomenal days whichclosed the year andwhich were regardedas particularly sacred.^With him his twin sis-ter, Isis, saw the light[some sources, however, state that she was born on the fourthepagomenal day]. When his birth is described as from theocean, like his son and double, the solar deity Horus,^^ this ismerely another interpretation of his mother, Nut, since thereis little distinction between the ocean and Its continuation, thesky. Osiris created all life, especially mankind, and ruled overit. [Others later declared that he established civilization,teaching men religion and agriculture, particularly the culti-vation of his special plant, the vine (p. 36), etc.,^- and abollsh- xn — 9. Fig. 117. Osiris under the Vine
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