Pistol Wrote:
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> There's a good case to be made that Osiris dates
> as far back as early-dynastic Egypt... but nothing
> definitive.
>
> "The PT, as well as the CT and other later texts,
> call Horus a son of Osiris-Orion and
> Sothis-Isis-Hathor. Osiris and Isis are not
> attested before Dynasty V. On the other hand,
> PT-371 identifies Khenti-imentiu
> (Foremost-of-the-Westerners), the divine patron of
> the royal necropolis at Abydos from the
> predynastic onwards, with Osiris who in turn was
> the god of the dead par excellence beginning in
> Dynasty V. Possibly Osiris was known as
> Khenti-imentiu as early as the beginning of
> Dynasty I (Wilkinson 1999, 288)." (Krauss 2010,
> 137)
>
> B.A.Hokom
It also strikes me that when we have 2nd Dynasty kings associated with Set, then though he is not mentioned by name in the existing records, Osiris may well be there somewhere, for who is Set, what is his purpose without Osiris and his son Horus.