Introduction
Osiris is the god of the afterlife, the underworld, and rebirth, and, in Egyptian tradition, the mythic first king to rule Egypt as a civilizing, orderly force before his murder.
Family
- Father: Geb
- Mother: Nut
- Spouse: Isis (married)
- Children: Horus (son of Isis)
- Siblings: Horus the Elder, Isis, Nephthys, Set (Seth)
Murder and Resurrection
Osiris's brother Set, jealous of his throne, murdered him and scattered or sealed away his dismembered body. His wife and sister Isis searched for and reassembled his remains, using magic to conceive their son Horus from his restored body before Osiris passed into the underworld to become its eternal ruler and judge of the dead — the pattern that made him the central figure of Egyptian funerary belief, with every deceased person hoped to become "an Osiris" in death. Manetho's later king-list also names Osiris among the legendary divine kings of Egypt, in the same role and story as here.
Ancient Egyptian religion spanned three millennia and many regional cult centers, so parentage, roles and even gender pairings for a given deity often differ between the Heliopolitan, Hermopolitan, Memphite and Theban theological systems; the account above follows the most widely attested classical version.