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Osiris:
One of the most important deities of ancient Egypt whose principal association is with death, resurrection and fertility. He is usually depicted as a mummy whose hands project through his wrapping to hold the royal insignia of crook and flail. He wears the headdress white crown of Upper Egypt flanked by two feathers. Dying God of vegetation ruler of other world. Perhaps originally a Delta deity, but the chief center of his worship at Abydos. |