Who is Osiris??

Answer 1

an Egyptian god who was killed by his uncle, Set and dismembered and then later resurrected and reconstructed by Isis, he became the god of the underworld and resurrection.

Answer 2

Osiris is the Egyptian god of life, death, and fertility. He is one of the oldest gods for whom records have been found and first appears in the Pyramid Texts around 2400 BCE, when his cult is already well established. He was widely worshiped until the forceable suppression of paganism in the Christian era. Osiris was not only the redeemer and merciful judge of the dead in the afterlife, but also the underworld agency that granted all life, including sprouting vegetation and the fertile flooding of the Nile River. The Kings of Egypt were associated with Osiris in death such that as Osiris rose from the dead so would they, in union with him, inherit eternal life through a process of imitative magic. By the New Kingdom all people, not just pharaohs, were believed to be associated with Osiris at death if they incurred the costs of the assimilation rituals.
Osiris is the oldest son of the Earth god, Geb, and the sky goddess, Nut as well as being brother and husband of Isis, with Horus being considered his posthumously begotten son. He is usually depicted as a green-skinned pharaoh wearing the Atef crown, a form of the white crown of upper Egypt with a plume of feathers to either side. Typically he is also depicted holding the crook and flail which signify divine authority in Egyptian kings, but which were originally unique to Osiris and his own origin-gods, and his feet and lower body are wrapped, as though already partly mummified.
Read more at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osiris

Answer 3

Osiris was the Egyptian god of the underworld, although he was also worshipped as a fertility, resurrection, and vegetation god. He was married to Isis, a sky goddess. He was father to Horus, the god of sky, and protector of the dead. Osiris was killed by his brother Seth, who shut his body in a chest and threw it into the Nile, where it washed up onto the shore and was trapped in a huge tree. The King Byblos turned it into a pillar in his palace. Isis (who had been searching for her husband) discovered the trunk, and retrieved the trunk and the body. While Isis was away, Seth found the body, and chopped it up into many pieces, and scattered them throughout Egypt. Isis and her sister, Nephthys, found the pieces and made wax models of them to give to priests to be worshipped.
When they found all of his pieces, they were so sad they wailed loudly enough for Re, the father god, to have pity on them. He sent Anubis and Thoth to help. They mummified Osiris, and put his body in a lion headed pier. Isis changed into a kite and fanned breath into Osiris. He was not allowed to stay in the land of the living, and was sent to the underworld to serve as king, and to judge the souls of the dead.

Answer 4

Osiris is the Egyptian god of life, death and fertility. He was one of the children of the Egyptian earth god, Geb, and the sky goddess, Nut. He is the husband and brother of the goddess Isis.

He is a good example of a life-death-rebirth deity. He was murdered by his brother, Set, and cut into many pieces. His sister/wife, Isis, found the pieces and brought him back to life.

Answer 5

Osiris is the Greek name of underworld and fertility god, Wesir (or Asar).
He was born of Nut (the sky) and Geb (the earth) with his sisters Aset (Isis), and Nebet Het (Nephthys), and his brothers Sutekh (Set), and Heru (Horus) the Elder.
He and Auset were said to fall in love with each other in the womb (aww <3), and were married.
His sons were Heru sa Auset (not to be confused with his brother, the elder), and Anpu (Anubis) whom he had from a secret tryst with Nebet Het (having been disguised as her sister).
His brother, Sutekh, who was insanely jealous of his popularity, killed him by sealing him in a custom made coffin. When Auset scowered the Upper and Lower kingdoms and finally found him, Sutekh then chopped his body into 13 pieces and spread them across the kingdoms.
Auset could find all the pieces except for his penis, which was replaced, I believe, with a wooden model (I may be wrong here). Though dead, he did impregnate her, and ruled the underworld, while leaving Auset to rule the living.
He now is one of the judges who presides over the weighing of the heart when you cross into the underworld ("Duat"), and plead your case as a just, truthful person.
The colors green and black (fertility, and death), bread, beer, gold and lapis lazuli are considered sacred to him.

Answer 6

Isis and Osiris, one of the greatest love stories ever told. :)

Answer 7

One of the chief gods of ancient Egypt, the son of Nut and brother of Set, his jealous and constant foe, and the husband of Isis. Set arranged his death, but Osiris underwent resurrection with the aid of Thoth. His son Horus became his avenger. He was the god of the dead and of the afterlife and resurrection. His name derives from Egyptian 'usir', perhaps from 'user' meaning 'powerful one'.

Answer 8

Consort of the goddess Isis.

Answer 9

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osiris

Answer 10

Egyptian god