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  • She wanted her husband, Osiris, to become king.†   (source)
  • Osiris will be exiled so deep into the Duat he may never rise again.†   (source)
  • If, in fact, that is what he was after, he might have accomplished it, using the power of Osiris.†   (source)
  • Osiris was resurrected—but only in the Underworld.†   (source)
  • And he released Osiris, but he also got Set and the rest of that lot.†   (source)
  • I am Osiris's royal executioner!" he yelled, smashing a fist into the water and rocking our boat.†   (source)
  • "To answer your question," Dad said, "I am both Osiris and Julius Kane.†   (source)
  • For now, let's just say he drew the power of Osiris into himself.†   (source)
  • I saw her wedding with Osiris, her hopes and dreams for a new empire.†   (source)
  • Only Horus and Isis can defeat Set and avenge the death of Osiris.†   (source)
  • If he's really got the spirit of Osiris …"†   (source)
  • For Osiris's sake—but I will insist on several conditions.†   (source)
  • I merely oversee it until Lord Osiris returns.†   (source)
  • Osiris shouted in rage, but his cries were muffled.†   (source)
  • Poor Osiris—he's gone to pieces, scattered all over Egypt now.†   (source)
  • Set turned to Osiris with a good-natured laugh.†   (source)
  • And Osiris has been gone so long … He's the only family I had.†   (source)
  • It is a gift"—he smiled slyly at Osiris—"for the one and only god who fits within perfectly!"†   (source)
  • "In my vision," I said, "Isis and Osiris were married.†   (source)
  • Without Osiris, it is falling into disrepair, crumbling.†   (source)
  • Isis, Osiris, Horus, Nephthys—where are they?†   (source)
  • Osiris is the god of the dead, and the god of new life.†   (source)
  • Osiris became an undead god, a half-living shadow of my father, fit to rule only in the Duat.†   (source)
  • "I, Horus, son of Osiris, claim the throne of the heavensas my birthright!" he shouted.†   (source)
  • Carter, when Osiris was alive, he was a great king.†   (source)
  • "Osiris must take his throne," my father said.†   (source)
  • You intentionally hosted Osiris, knowing you would die.†   (source)
  • Later in history, Osiris and Isis took new forms—humans who were husband and wife.†   (source)
  • Carter, Osiris was the lord of the dead.†   (source)
  • Julius has been obsessed with finding Osiris for years.†   (source)
  • That's because Osiris isn't here, I'm guessing.†   (source)
  • There was Osiris, the king, and Isis, his queen; Set, the evil god, and Horus, the avenger.†   (source)
  • When I heard the five had been released, I hoped Lord Osiris would return, but …†   (source)
  • Bast stood alone next to the empty throne of Osiris.†   (source)
  • We'll send Set back to the Duat, and Osiris will be free.†   (source)
  • He hid Osiris's coffin, you know, and Isis searched the entire world to find it.†   (source)
  • But the power of Osiris, the power inside me, would be consumed by the pyramid.†   (source)
  • My mother, Nephthys, gave me to Osiris when I was a child.†   (source)
  • Djed also stands for the power of Osiris—renewed life from the ashes of death.†   (source)
  • When Dad was standing in front of the Rosetta Stone, he said, 'Osiris, come.'†   (source)
  • Giving it to a mortal would be against the rules of Osiris.†   (source)
  • Dr. Van Ripple pauses before a statue of Osiris to mop his brow with a handkerchief.†   (source)
  • He might have even chosen Osiris, because Walt was a natural at bringing inanimate things to life.†   (source)
  • She thought Osiris would rule Egypt forever, and that Ra was just an old fool.†   (source)
  • Osiris would be murdered by his brother, Set.†   (source)
  • Thousands of years ago, Ra got senile and retreated into the heavens, leaving Osiris in charge.†   (source)
  • Osiris may become pharaoh, but his reign will be short and bitter.†   (source)
  • You desire my throne for your husband, the upstart Osiris.†   (source)
  • Around his neck was a djed amulet, the symbol of Osiris.†   (source)
  • Such was the lesson of all the great gods …. from Osiris, to Tammuz, to Jesus, to Shiva, to the Buddha himself.†   (source)
  • Priestesses of Isis took human lovers as symbolical stand-ins for the damaged Osiris, not unlike the way Lady Brett Ashley in the novel takes other lovers because she and Jake cannot consummate their passion.†   (source)
  • Lord Osiris lets me behead the wicked!†   (source)
  • We stood in the throne room of a palace—the same one I'd seen before, where Set had entombed Osiris.†   (source)
  • I thought about the myths I knew—how Horus, the son of Osiris, had to avenge his father by defeating Set.†   (source)
  • Osiris is dead again, the weakling!†   (source)
  • I will scour all life from this continent, and this pyramid shall stand as a monument to my power—the final and eternal tomb of Osiris!†   (source)
  • Your father's path is twined with that of Osiris, and matters between the gods cannot be solved by the earth.†   (source)
  • Set had been an important lieutenant to Ra, but he could not bear to see his brother Osiris become king.†   (source)
  • When Set unleashes it at sunrise—and it will be quite an explosion—Osiris and your father will be obliterated.†   (source)
  • She forced Ra to retreat into the heavens, opening the way for her beloved, Osiris, to become the new king of the gods.†   (source)
  • This made Set and Osiris enemies, and here we are five millennia later, still fighting that war, all because of Isis.†   (source)
  • He did release the spirit of Osiris.†   (source)
  • He was tall and strong, almost a twin to Osiris, but with dark red skin, blood-colored robes, and a pointed beard.†   (source)
  • "So Set imprisoned your father while he was hosting Osiris," Anubis said, "which means Osiris has also been trapped by my—"†   (source)
  • Besides, you and Horus want the same thing—to defeat Set, just as Horus did millennia ago, when Set first killed Osiris.†   (source)
  • "Good-bye, Osiris," the fiery man said.†   (source)
  • But the fifth child of Nut, the one Carter said he could never remember … Then I recalled my vision in the Hall of Ages—Osiris's birthday and the woman in blue who'd helped Isis escape Set.†   (source)
  • But that wasn't Osiris, was it?†   (source)
  • Osiris took me under his wing.†   (source)
  • My symbol—the spine of Osiris.†   (source)
  • Helping Osiris to his throne was a first step, a thousand times more important than anything I could've done in the world above—except being your father.†   (source)
  • The important thing is, for the past six years your father has been looking for a way to summon Osiris, and last night he thought he had found the right artifact to do it.†   (source)
  • Their names were Osiris—†   (source)
  • Osiris rose from his throne.†   (source)
  • Wait, why did he want Osiris?†   (source)
  • Avenge Osiris.†   (source)
  • Osiris's throne is empty.†   (source)
  • "Osiris," I remembered.†   (source)
  • Osiris?†   (source)
  • My lord Osiris.†   (source)
  • All hail Osiris!†   (source)
  • But Osiris isn't here.†   (source)
  • But Osiris is a legend.†   (source)
  • But Osiris lay down.†   (source)
  • So you serve Osiris?†   (source)
  • Do you see Osiris?†   (source)
  • Dad joined with Osiris.†   (source)
  • Osiris smiled at Isis.†   (source)
  • Osiris's eyes gleamed.†   (source)
  • Osiris.†   (source)
  • Everywhere there were pictures of Osiris, the blue-skinned god of the dead, and I thought about how Dad had sacrificed himself to become Osiris's new host.†   (source)
  • Last Christmas at the British Museum, he'd sacrificed his life to release Osiris and restore balance to the Duat.†   (source)
  • I imagined them in the Hall of Judgment, my father sitting on his throne as the blue-skinned god Osiris, my mum in her ghostly white robes.†   (source)
  • Er … I mean Osiris, isn't it?†   (source)
  • You don't see that with Osiris.†   (source)
  • Then Osiris got overthrown by Set.†   (source)
  • This is the House of Osiris.†   (source)
  • Osiris, you will be king!†   (source)
  • I'm Osiris.†   (source)
  • Absolutely, Osiris.†   (source)
  • The Resurrection of Osiris (carved stone, Ptolemaic, Egypt, c. 282-145 B.C.).†   (source)
  • Osiris, Judge of the Dead (papyrus, Egypt, c. 1275 B.C.).†   (source)
  • The man or woman who has died is identified with and actually called Osiris.†   (source)
  • 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)
  • And so it is that, throughout the world, men whose function it has been to make visible on earth the life-fructifying mystery of the slaying of the dragon have enacted upon their own bodies the great symbolic act, scattering their flesh, like the body of Osiris, for the renovation of the world.†   (source)
  • 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)
  • It groweth, I grow; it liveth, I live; it snuffeth the air, I snuff the air, I the Osiris N., in triumph.†   (source)
  • The Serpent Kheti in the Underworld, Consuming with Fire an Enemy of Osiris (carved alabaster, New Kingdom, Egypt, 1278 B.C.).†   (source)
  • In the "Chapter of Giving a Mouth to Osiris N.," we read the phrase: "I rise out of the egg in the hidden land."†   (source)
  • My phallus is the phallus of Osiris.†   (source)
  • The texts open with hymns of praise to Re and Osiris and then proceed to the mysteries of the unswathing of the spirit in the world beneath.†   (source)
  • Isis in the Form of a Hawk Joins Osiris in the Underworld (carved stone, Ptolemaic, Egypt, c. first century A.D.).†   (source)
  • This is prescribed in the "Chapter of Not Letting the Heart of Osiris N. Be Taken from Him in the Underworld."†   (source)
  • Apis in the Form of a Bull Transports the Deceased as Osiris to the Underworld (carved wood, Egypt, c. 700-650 B.C.).†   (source)
  • The "Chapter of Making Osiris N. to Possess Memory in the Underworld" and the "Chapter of Giving a Heart to Osiris N. in the Underworld" carry the process of rebirth two stages further.†   (source)
  • In the "Chapter of Driving Back the Two Merti Goddesses" the soul declares its purpose, and protects itself by stating its claim to be the son of the father: "… I shine from the Sektet boat, I am Horus the son of Osiris, and I have come to see my father Osiris."†   (source)
  • , Osiris Aufankh, Osiris Ani.†   (source)
  • Then, in the "Chapter of Opening the Mouth of Osiris N.," the awakening spirit prays: "May the god Ptah open my mouth, and may the god of my city loose the swathings, even the swathings which are over my mouth."†   (source)
  • 5' Indeed, the physical body of the hero may be actually slain, dismembered, and scattered over the land or sea—as in the Egyptian myth of the savior Osiris: he was thrown into a sarcophagus and committed to the Nile by his brother Set,* and when he returned from the dead his brother slew him again, tore the body into fourteen pieces, and scattered these over the land.†   (source)
  • Throughout the ancient world such myths and rites abounded: the deaths and resurrections of Tammuz, Adonis, Mithra, Virbius, Attis, and Osiris, and of their various animal representatives (goats and sheep, bulls, pigs, horses, fish, and birds) are known to every student of comparative religion; the popular carnival games of the Whitsuntide Louts, Green Georges, John Barleycorns, and Kostrubonkos, Carrying-out-Winter, Bringing-in-Summer, and Killing of the Christmas Wren have continued…†   (source)
  • Thereafter, the soul may range the universe at will, as is shown in the "Chapter of Lifting Up the Feet and of Coming Forth upon the Earth," the "Chapter of Journeying to Heliopolis and of Receiving a Throne Therein," the "Chapter of a Man Transforming Himself into Whatever Form He Pleaseth," the "Chapter of Entering into the Great House," and the "Chapter of Going into the Presence of the Divine Sovereign Princes of Osiris."†   (source)
  • I swear it, by the genii of Amente! by the eye of Osiris, I swear it!†   (source)
  • I thought Osiris had lent him a glory from the sun.†   (source)
  • And the man rose up happy as a child; whereat Osiris was pleased, so that he shouted, 'Ha, ha!†   (source)
  • But Osiris, though seeing it all, held his peace; he could do no more.†   (source)
  • Then Isis and Osiris, and their circle, representing water, fire, air, and other forces, were invented.†   (source)
  • And, as if he heard the thought, Osiris stirred, and the noise of his will shook the universe; the sun in its central seat alone stood firm.†   (source)
  • Osiris was too proud to speak.†   (source)
  • And instantly, between the marching host and the two on the golden roof, a something as of night fell, and shut out the view; but it was not night—only the frown of Osiris.†   (source)
  • Now, indeed, Osiris was done; and if the creature should again fall off into wretchedness, her help must be asked; and her fingers flew—two, three, five, even ten stitches she took at once.†   (source)
  • And Isis fell to knitting again, for she was patient as Osiris was strong; and if he could work, she could wait; and wait she did, knowing that mere life is not enough to keep anything content.†   (source)
  • What did Osiris afterwards?†   (source)
  • And the will of Osiris, at labor in his mighty breast, was as the sound of the mills of all the other gods grinding at once, so loud that the near stars rattled like seeds in a parched pod; and some dropped out and were lost.†   (source)
  • The palace of the Divine Wife was of silver, crowning the tallest mountain in the moon, and thence she passed often to the sun, in the heart of which, a source of eternal light, Osiris kept his palace of gold too shining for men to look at.†   (source)
  • You must know, in the first place, that Isis was—and, for that matter, she may yet be—the most beautiful of deities; and Osiris, her husband, though wise and powerful, was sometimes stung with jealousy of her, for only in their loves are the gods like mortals.†   (source)
  • —You pray to a local and obscure idol: our temples, majestic and mysterious, are the abodes of Isis and Osiris, of Horus and Ammon Ra.†   (source)
  • Magnifying and applying come I, Outbidding at the start the old cautious hucksters, Taking myself the exact dimensions of Jehovah, Lithographing Kronos, Zeus his son, and Hercules his grandson, Buying drafts of Osiris, Isis, Belus, Brahma, Buddha, In my portfolio placing Manito loose, Allah on a leaf, the crucifix engraved, With Odin and the hideous-faced Mexitli and every idol and image, Taking them all for what they are worth and not a cent more, Admitting they were alive and did the…†   (source)
  • And now both armies shock in open field; Osiris is by strong Thymbraeus kill'd.†   (source)
  • Hermes Trismegistus, counsellor of Osiris, King of Egypt, was credited with the invention of writing and hieroglyphics, the drawing up of the laws of the Egyptians, and the origination of many sciences and arts.†   (source)
  • After these appeared A crew who, under names of old renown— Osiris, Isis, Orus, and their train— With monstrous shapes and sorceries abused Fanatic Egypt and her priests to seek Their wandering gods disguised in brutish forms Rather than human.†   (source)
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