Osiris Definition

ō-sīrĭs
noun
The ancient Egyptian god whose annual death and resurrection personified the self-renewing vitality and fertility of nature.
American Heritage
The god of the lower world and judge of the dead, brother and husband of Isis.
Webster's New World

Origin of Osiris

  • Latin Osīris from Greek from Egyptian wsjr perhaps originally js-jrt seat of the eye (of the sun) js- akin to jst seat jrt eye

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Osiris Sentence Examples

  • One incident of the tale of Osiris acquired a deep ethical meaning in connection with the dead.

  • With this may be compared the festivals of Adonis and Osiris and the myth of Persephone.

  • All shrines of Osiris were called P-usiri, but the principal city of the name was in the centre of the Delta, capital of the 9th (Busirite) nome of Lower Egypt; another one near Memphis (now Abusir) may have helped the formation of the legend in that quarter.

  • The Osiris cycle of legends seems to belong to these people.

  • Osiris and Isis are closely connected with Syria and the Lebanon in legend; the Ded or sacred pillar of Osiris is doubtless really a representation of a great cedar with its horizontally outspreading branches; 8 another of the sacred Egyptian trees is obviously a cypress; corn and wine are traditionally associated with Osiris, and it is probable that corn and wine were first domesticated in Syria, and came thence with the gods Osiris and Re (the sun god of Heliopolis) into the Delta.

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Words Starting With

OOSOSI

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SISRIS

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