This is beyond beautiful to me. The forms are striking. The geometric lotus flowers create a great pattern throughout. If you don’t know, according the the story, Set killed his brother Osiris and dismembered the corpse up into various pieces. Osiris’ sister-wife Isis and sister Nephthys gathered up the remains and Anubis reassmbled and mummified…
Category: Osiris / Wsjr
Set and Osiris
I very much love this simple image of Set and Osiris by sheeigh. The repeating pattern of sibling rivalry in human stories always amazes me. Fratricide is such a repeating pattern in humanity stretching back to our earliest recordings and no doubt oral before that. Set is such a strange entity. I mean, his role…
Osiris (wsjr) of Kemet
A very nice interpretation of Osiris (wsjr) of Kemet. Few are aware that known belief and worship of Osiris lasted until the 450’s CE. The earliest extant discovered reference is from the Old Kingdom Pyramid Texts from around the 24th century BCE. So 2800+ years of continual worship is pretty amazing and beats most modern…