Manual of mythology : Greek and Roman, Norse, and old German, Hindoo and Egyptian mythology . Osiris. m I. %v>f^^. :^m^i^^m Nile God. OSIRIS. 34y two were at the head of the ** Osirian divinities—Osiris, Isis,Scth, Ncphthys. Nutpc or Ncpte has been identified withRhea. She is su[)posed to coincide with Lucina, and to pre-side over births and nursing. As being the mother of Isisand Osiris, she was called the mother of the gods. OSIRIS, (plate xliv.,) The great deity of the Egyptians, has lx?en by some identi-fied with the sun, or sunlight, or the vivifying powersin nature. According to this

---

Manual of mythology : Greek and Roman, Norse, and old German, Hindoo and Egyptian mythology . Osiris. m I. %v>f^^. :^m^i^^m Nile God. OSIRIS. 34y two were at the head of the ** Osirian divinities—Osiris, Isis,Scth, Ncphthys. Nutpc or Ncpte has been identified withRhea. She is su[)posed to coincide with Lucina, and to pre-side over births and nursing. As being the mother of Isisand Osiris, she was called the mother of the gods. OSIRIS, (plate xliv.,) The great deity of the Egyptians, has lx?en by some identi-fied with the sun, or sunlight, or the vivifying powersin nature. According to this view the sleep or death ofOsiris means the sleep of the spring-maiden Brynhild (see ), or the imprisonment of Persephone in the dark realmof Hades. His contest with Seb (by the Greeks called Ty-pho) would certainly seem to be another instance of the plau-sibility, at least, of this view. At any rate, Osiris, being re-stored to life, became the judge of the under-world. Therehe listens to Thoths tale of the character of the disembodiedsouls, who are introduced to the judge by Horus (the son ofOs

---

Size: 1876px × 1331px
Photo credit: © The Reading Room / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

Keywords: ., bookcentury1800, bookdecade1870, booksubjectmythology, bookyear18