Geb The Sky God: The Osiris Myth

Geb the sky god had four children,namely: Osiris, Isis, Set and Nepthys. Osiris was the oldest and so as the custom of the traditions, became king of Egypt, and he married his sister Isis. Osiris was a good king and commanded the respect of all who lived on the earth and the gods who stayed in the underworld. is the most elaborate and influential story in ancient Egyptian . It concerns the murder of the god Osiris, a primeval king of Egypt, and its consequences. Osiris murderer, his brother Set, usurps his throne..Meanwhile, Osiris 's wife restores her husband 's body, allowing him to posthumously conceive a son with her. The story focuses on Horus the product of the union of Isis and Osiris, who is at first a vulnerable child protected by his mother and then becomes Set 's rival for the throne. Their often violent conflict ends with Horus 's triumph, which restores sanity to Egypt after Set 's unrighteous reign and completes the process of Osiris 's resurrection. The myth, with its complex symbolism, is integral to the Egyptian conceptions of kingship and who would succeed the throne, conflict between order and disorder, and especially death and the after life

Many of its elements originated in religious ideas, but the struggle between Horus and Set may have been partly inspired by a regional conflict in Egypt 's history Osiris rules Egypt, having inherited the kingship from his ancestors in a lineage stretching back to the creator of the world, His queen is Isis who, along with Osiris and his murderer Set, is one of the children of the earth god geb and the sky goddess Little information about the reign of Osiris appears in Egyptian sources; the focus is on his death and the events that follow Osiris is connected with life-giving power, righteous kingship, and wise rule the ideal natural order whose maintenance was a fundamental goal in ancient Egyptian culture.Set is closely associated with violence and