Birth, Death & Resurrection of Osiris, the Ancient

osiris4dOsiris, lord of death, with crown atef and green body. In Egyptian mythology, Osiris is the god of life, death, the flooding of the Nile, and the afterlife.He was the brother and husband ofOsiris, one of the most important gods of ancient e orin of Osiris is obscure; he was a local god of Busiris, in Lower Egypt, and may have been a personification of chthonic (underworld) fertility.By about 2400 bce, however,