Corvidius Wrote:
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> All the dead become an Osiris, but do not become
> Osiris.
Agreed
> order to pass judgement. The king does not stand
> in front of Osiris to be judged, he gets a free
> pass. I'm sure this much will be agreed upon.
I'm going to reserve judgement on this, particularly since Akhenaten was tried after death... so there must have been some belief about kings being punished for things they did. So I neither agree nor disagree here.
> what becomes of the king after his death. he of
> course becomes an Osiris, but, after being greeted
> into the Duat, he jumps onto the Nightboat and
> travels with the also "dead" Ra, known only as
> "Flesh" while he is in the Duat to signify his
> weakend position.
And again, I don't think I'm going to make a statement of agreement, given the different texts found in the multiple books of the afterlife. I agree that his power is diminished and grows through the night.
> It is only with Ra that the king reaches Osiris in
> the "Hidden Chamber" at the 6th Hour, and it is
In the book that's written in the tomb of Thutmose iii, yes, this is what happens. Elsewhere, no. In the Book of Gates, for instance, he does not meet Osiris. So we have an interesting idea here that for one pharaoh, there's a meeting as if he's been pre-judged -- for others, this scene is skipped.
>
> Dayboat, and the cycle continues for eternity. So
> the dead king, while becoming an Osiris, which I
> view as perhaps more of a euphemism to show they
> are dead without being explicet, spends eternity
> with Ra, and every night becomes resurrected with
> Ra at the "union" with Osiris.
But he is not a "Re" and does not merge with Re, as you said earlier.
The sarcophagus for Thutmose III shows very plainly that he is being referred to as "the Osiris" [
thebanmappingproject.com] (to the left where Anubis is standing, he's named the Osiris Thutmoses and to the right where Hapi is standing he's the Osiris Menkephere.
-- Byrd
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