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The 26 pages that link to Osiris, each with the reason it gives.

• PharaohRelated: A dead pharaoh was associated with Osiris, completing the divine cycle of kingship.

• AbydosRelated: Abydos was a principal center of his worship and sacred mythology.

• Book of the DeadRelated: The deceased's judgment in Spell 125 takes place before him.

• Ma'atRelated: As judge of the dead, he presides over the trial measured against Ma'at.

• Pyramid TextsRelated: The texts connect the dead king with Osiris and his regenerative power.

• HorusRelated: Horus is Osiris’s son and successor in the central kingship myth.

• IsisRelated: Isis is Osiris’s wife and restores him after his murder.

• Egyptian mythologyRelated: His restoration made him the central ruler of the afterlife in many traditions.

• Nile floodRelated: Flooding and the renewal of cultivated land contributed to associations between Osiris and agricultural rebirth.

• Ancient Egyptian kingshipRelated: The dead king could be associated with Osiris, while his successor took Horus’s role.

• NutRelated: Nut is traditionally named as his mother in the Osirian divine family.

• OrionRelated: Some Egyptian traditions linked the stellar figure Sah, in Orion’s region, with Osiris.

• NefertariRelated: Nefertari’s tomb presents her within the afterlife traditions centered on Osiris.

• AnubisRelated: As Osiris became the central ruler of the dead, Anubis’s funerary role increasingly served his realm.

• Ancient Egyptian afterlife beliefsRelated: The deceased sought to join the god who embodied renewed life after death.

• Neferhotep IRelated: Neferhotep’s Abydos decree concerned the cult statue of this god.

• Mask of TutankhamunRelated: The mask’s divine associations present the dead king in an Osirian afterlife role.

• NephthysRelated: Nephthys is Osiris’s sister and helps protect him in funerary tradition.

• SobekRelated: Sobek’s mythic relationships sometimes connected him to Osiris and the divine family.

• Sohag GovernorateRelated: His cult made Abydos, within the governorate, a major pilgrimage center.

• Vegetation deityRelated: His death and restoration became linked to the fertility of the Nile valley.