Egyptian deity

Osiris

Killed by his brother Set and restored by Isis, he rules the dead rather than returning to the living. Every dead Egyptian hoped to be identified with him, which is why coffin texts address the deceased by his name.

2 correspondences · 1 with an ancient or scriptural source · 0 without a cited source

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The oldest attribution here is Greek equivalent Dionysos, first attested 430 BCE.

Greek equivalent

  • Dionysos

    Traditional
    Who says so
    The Greek and Roman reading of Egypt (V BCE – IV CE)
    Earliest verified attestation
    430 BCE
    Ancient or scriptural source
    Attested
    Evidence
    The source states it

    Herodotus's own equation, in his own sentence. It is evidence of what a fifth-century Greek was told and understood, which is not the same thing as evidence of Egyptian theology.

    Evidence

    1. Herodotus of Halicarnassus, Histories, c. 430 BCE — Book II, 42

      Ancient primary · The History of Herodotus, translated by G. C. Macaulay

      for not all the Egyptians equally reverence the same gods, except only Isis and Osiris (who they say is Dionysos), these they all reverence alike

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    2. Herodotus of Halicarnassus, Histories, c. 430 BCE — Book II, 144

      Ancient primary · The History of Herodotus, translated by G. C. Macaulay

      Now Osiris in the tongue of Hellas is Dionysos.

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Ritual godform

  • Hierophant

    Modern
    Who says so
    The orders' Egypt (1875 onward)
    Earliest verified attestation
    1909 CE
    Ancient or scriptural source
    None found
    Evidence
    The source states it

    The ritual names the god outright. Evidence of what the Golden Dawn did with him in 1888, which is a different question from what Egyptian sources say about him.

    Evidence

    1. Aleister Crowley, for the A∴A∴, Liber O vel Manus et Sagittae, 1909 — The Officers and the Stations of the Officers

      Esoteric primary · The Equinox, Vol. I, No. 2

      is the name of the Hierophant: and he is Aeshuri-st, The Osiris in the Nether World.

      Cited by the ritual's own heading rather than by page: this scan sets the folio 248 as 243, so no run of page numbers can establish the leaf, and a number nobody read is not written down as though it had been.

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