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    Perhaps a touch of Isis and Osiris thrown in; Osiris was torn apart, and the goddess Isis succeeded in reassembling him except for the part that makes Jake Barnes resemble him (the Osiris myth is an Egyptian fertility myth).†  (source)
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    Isis was the wife of Osiris, friend of slaves and sinners, protector of the dead.†  (source)
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    The entrance is adorned by giant statues of Isis and Osiris.†  (source)
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    FIGURE 47: The Resurrection of Osiris (carved stone, Ptolemaic, Egypt, c.282-145 B.C.).†  (source)
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    At any time life can come together again and man be regenerated, and doesn't have to be a god or public servant like Osiris who gets torn apart annually for the sake of the common prosperity, but the man himself, finite and taped as he is, can still come where the axial lines are.†  (source)
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    And Gant, the Olympian Bull; and Heracles Gant; and Gant, the Seductive Swan; and Ashtaroth and Azrael Gant, Proteus Gant, Anubis and Osiris and Mumbo-Jumbo Gant.†  (source)
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    And the man rose up happy as a child; whereat Osiris was pleased, so that he shouted, 'Ha, ha!†  (source)
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    Such was the lesson of all the great gods ....from Osiris, to Tammuz, to Jesus, to Shiva, to the Buddha himself.†  (source)
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    "Osiris, come," Sadie said, as if in a trance.†  (source)
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    Perhaps a touch of Isis and Osiris thrown in; Osiris was torn apart, and the goddess Isis succeeded in reassembling him except for the part that makes Jake Barnes resemble him (the Osiris myth is an Egyptian fertility myth).†  (source)
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    Dr. Van Ripple pauses before a statue of Osiris to mop his brow with a handkerchief.†  (source)
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    FIGURE 78: Osiris, Judge of the Dead (papyrus, Egypt, c.1275 B.C.).†  (source)
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    I thought Osiris had lent him a glory from the sun.†  (source)
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