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Symbolic “tomb” of the ancient god Osiris found in Egypt

Posted on 2015/01/05 - 2015/01/12 by jd

You might think that today’s modern gods are complicated and temperamental, but no….

‘According to ancient Egyptian legend, Osiris was the god of the afterlife and he was murdered by his brother Set, sometimes known as Seth, the god of disorder and chaos. Set shut Osiris in a sarcophagus and threw it in the Nile before the body was discovered by Set’s sister and Osiris’s wife, Isis, the Egyptian goddess of magic….’
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