Osiris was considered as one of the main prominent gods during the earliest Egyptian pantheon. This famous deity was part of the Ennead and identified also as the Ennead of the Heliopolis and the Great Ennead. This is a unit of nine Egyptian divine being worshipped initially in the Heliopolis, but whose effect spread to whole Egypt also. Osiris is mostly known as the god of Underworld, a position that allows him to ascertain the deceased. His authority over the dead people may be observed in the truth that this god was often described as the mummified figure. The other characteristics of Osiris’ iconography aim towards the distinctive attributes of this earliest god.
The Son of Gods
The word Osiris was taken from the prehistoric Egyptian word ‘Wsir’ and this can be interpreted to mean ‘mighty’ or ‘powerful’. Base on the Heliopolis established fiction Atum was the earliest god to have lived as the outcome of self-formation. The god then continued to form the goddess Tefnut and also the god Shu. The combination of these two divine beings became the birth of Nut and Geb. In the end, the offspring of Nut and Geb were Set, Isis, Nephthys and Osiris.
