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Osiris large plaque
This large ancient Egyptian plaque
depicts the god Osiris. Osiris is the god
of the earth and vegetation, symbolized
in his death the yearly drought and in his
miraculous rebirth the periodic flooding
of the Nile and the growth of grain.
Osiris is the Egyptian god of Death and
the underworld. Osiris was originally the
god of the underworld and the dead in
the Ennead version of Egyptian
mythology, in which he was one of the
four children of the earth (Geb) and the
sky (Nuit), and was the husband of Isis,
who represented life.
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