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Spiritual Traditions

Ausar (Osiris)

Ancient Egypt, c. 3000 BCE – Ptolemaic and Roman periods; revived in modern Kemetic practice

Abydos and throughout Egypt (Kemet)

Ausar (Usir; Greek Osiris) is the Egyptian lord of the afterlife and judge of the dead, linked to fertility and the Nile; his murder by Set and revival by Auset were re-enacted at Abydos.

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Bronze statuette of Osiris, Late Period (589–526 BCE), Metropolitan Museum of Art
Credit: The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1956. License: Public domain (CC0, Met Open Access).

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Sources

  1. World History Encyclopedia, "Osiris" (Reference)
  2. Michael C. Carlos Museum, Emory University, "Osiris" (Life and the Afterlife catalogue, no. 37) (Primary source)
  3. SAGE, Encyclopedia of Black Studies (eds. Molefi Kete Asante and Ama Mazama), "Ausar Auset Society" (Scholarly)
  4. Paul Harrison, Profane Egyptologists: The Modern Revival of Ancient Egyptian Religion (Routledge) (Scholarly)

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