cladking Wrote:
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> Osiris was the actual name of the geyser.

This is a completely unevidenced assertion.

Osiris is the name of a vegetation god. Read the work on the subject. You might do well to start with: "The Origins of Osiris and His Cult" by J. Gwyn Griffiths, 1980. There is no room in the historical record for such a massive rewrite of something that is so well understood.

>"N" is a
> sort of
> place holder for the name of the deceased king.


Well, you have one thing right, anyway.




> In life the
> king was responsible for the stabilty, operation
> and usage
> of the geyser.


What "geyser"? There are no geysers in Egypt. Nothing ever referenced geysers in Egypt. There is no evidence that geysers were ever known to Egyptians, especially during the pyramid age.


> Now that he's dead he is still
> closely asso-
> ciated with the geyser and the God which it is.

Except the Giza pyramids were built at a time before Osiris was ever a prominent god in the Egyptian pantheon. He may not have actually even existed at that time. The first attestations are mid-fifth Dynasty, and they are scant until we get to the PTs.

Your entire idea has no foundation in logic, evidence or history. There's nothing more to say, really.

Anthony

You can lead a horse to water but you can't make him think.