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oʊˈsaɪ rɪsosiris

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. Osirisnoun

    Egyptian god of the underworld and judge of the dead; husband and brother of Isis; father of Horus

Wiktionary

  1. Osirisnoun

    The Egyptian god of the dead and of the underworld.

  2. Etymology: From Ὄσιρις.

Wikipedia

  1. Osiris

    Osiris (, from Egyptian wsjr, Coptic: ⲟⲩⲥⲓⲣⲉ ousire, Late Coptic [uˈsiræ]; Phoenician:

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  1. osiris

    Osiris is an ancient Egyptian god, depicted as the god of the afterlife, the underworld, and the dead. He is traditionally portrayed as a green-skinned man wrapped in mummy's bandages, wearing a distinctive crown, and holding a symbolic crook and flail. His death and resurrection were celebrated in annual Egyptian rituals. He is also considered as the mythological father of the god Horus. Osiris played a key role in the Egyptian concept of judgment, resurrection, and immortality.

Wikidata

  1. Osiris

    Osiris was an Egyptian god, usually identified as the god of the afterlife, the underworld and the dead. He was classically depicted as a green-skinned man with a pharaoh's beard, partially mummy-wrapped at the legs, wearing a distinctive crown with two large ostrich feathers at either side, and holding a symbolic crook and flail. Osiris was at times considered the oldest son of the Earth god Geb, and the sky goddess Nut, as well as being brother and husband of Isis, with Horus being considered his posthumously begotten son. He was also associated with the epithet Khenti-Amentiu, which means "Foremost of the Westerners" — a reference to his kingship in the land of the dead. As ruler of the dead, Osiris was also sometimes called "king of the living", since the Ancient Egyptians considered the blessed dead "the living ones". Osiris is first attested in the middle of the Fifth dynasty of Egypt, although it is likely that he was worshipped much earlier; the term Khenti-Amentiu dates to at least the first dynasty, also as a pharaonic title. Most information we have on the myths of Osiris is derived from allusions contained in the Pyramid Texts at the end of the Fifth Dynasty, later New Kingdom source documents such as the Shabaka Stone and the Contending of Horus and Seth, and much later, in narrative style from the writings of Greek authors including Plutarch and Diodorus Siculus.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Osiris

    ō-sī′ris, n. the greatest of Egyptian gods, son of Seb and Nut, or Heaven and Earth, married to Isis, slain by Set but avenged by his son Horus, judge of the dead in the nether-world.

The Nuttall Encyclopedia

  1. Osiris

    one of the principal gods of Egypt, the husband of Isis, who was his sister and the father of Horus, who avenged the wrongs he suffered at the hands of the Earth, his mother, in whose womb he was born and in whose womb he was buried; he was the god of all the earth-born, and subject to the like fate.

Mythology

  1. Osiris

    (Osi′ris). The Egyptian god of the sun, the source of warmth, life, and fruitfulness; he was worshiped under the form of a sacred bull, named Apis.

    “... 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.” (Milton.)

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of osiris in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of osiris in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8

Examples of osiris in a Sentence

  1. Davide Farnocchia:

    The OSIRIS-REx data give us so much more precise information, we can test the limits of our models and calculate the future trajectory of Bennu to a very high degree of certainty through 2135, we've never modeled an asteroid's trajectory to this precision before.

  2. Lori Glaze:

    I want to stress that NASA remains fully committed to scientific discovery and exploration of small bodies, this is exemplified by our existing missions OSIRIS-REx, Lucy and DART. We are anxiously anticipating the review of Psyche tests to better understand what that path forward will look like.

  3. Yasuhiro Oba:

    The discovery of uracil in the samples from Ryugu lends strength to current theories regarding the source of nucleobases in the early Earth, the OSIRIS-REx mission by NASA will be returning samples from asteroid Bennu this year, and a comparative study of the composition of these asteroids will provide further data to build on these theories.

  4. Glenn Godenho:

    Building on work at the site by a Hungarian mission, Kathleen has confirmed the presence of a Ptolemaic period Isis temple within the larger Osiris temple that dominates the site, add to this a hoard of coins with Cleopatras portrait on them, and other Greco-Roman period finds not [the] least, fragments of statuary and mummies and we can certainly say that Taposiris Magna was active during Cleopatras reign.

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