Jammer Wrote:
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> Cladking wrote
> >"Besides the fact that Osiris is a God and
> therefore might not or ever have had any corpse
> > drippings..."
>
> Please research some of the AE actual records of
> their belief; Osiris was both a deity AND a man
> who suffered dismemberment, corruption, and needed
> the aid of Isis to be revivified. Because of that
> he was Lord of the Afterlife!
>
> He underwent all the normal corruptions and
> preservations after death, including turning a
> sickly green and being wrapped in linens.
>
> You cannot ignore what they wrote and pictured
> because you personally prefer different
> intrepretations.
Indeed. This is why I used the words I did "might not or ever have had". Yes. It does appear from conventuional understanding that the God who might or might not have arisen in the 5th dynasty might have originally been a man. Certainly some people believe that he was obviously a God derived from a man. But I was trying to avoid discussion of his origin since even as a man he seems to be excessively "wet". It's not so much that he's always dripping, sweating, shedding efflux and "is" cool water so much as he seems to have no state in which this isn't a problem. These traits are impossible for a man and rather odd for a God. Since he is pictured as a mummy in many cases it seems he should be well beyond dripping.
To put it another way Osiris' functions such as weighing hearts and standing up are done after he's mummified and wouldn't necessarily be expected to involve any sort of wetness.
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