Meaning of symbols ancient Egypt God Osiris

 

The fertility god Osiris

"Being eternally good", "One who is perfect", also called Wennefer, Osiris was the fulcrum of wider symbolic worship in ancient Egypt was born as a god of fertility, particularly associated with the wheat and the nurses of the Nile waters .

Received from his father Geb the Earth Government, Osiris introduced in rural agriculture and viticulture, thus arousing the jealousy of his brother Seth, who had it drowned in the Nile, thus symbolizing the flooding of the land and the new harvest.

After his death the god would have been dismembered, but this version of the myth is probably due to the many places that claim to custodirne a relic.

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