Osiris

Egyptian tradition. See the whole pantheon.

Domains: afterlife, resurrection, fertility of the flood
Symbols and attributes: Crook and flail, green skin, Atef crown
Parents (per the sources used): Geb and Nut
Partner: Isis
Children: Horus

Papyrus of Ani, British Museum (New Kingdom), a Book of the Dead.

Key myth

Killed by his brother Seth and later restored by Isis, Osiris became king of the dead. Every deceased person hoped to become 'an Osiris'. His story appears in fragments in the Egyptian texts and in full only in Plutarch.

Where sources differ or caution applies. The sources: the Pyramid Texts allude to the murder; the continuous story is Plutarch's Greek version.

Primary sources

Pyramid Texts Utterance 219-222
Plutarch, De Iside 13-19

All sources for the Egyptian pantheon

Lineage in the sources used: Geb, Shu, Atum, Nun, Tefnut, Nut.

Place in the family graph

Choose a deity to see where it comes from. Dashed lines are links the sources describe that are not parent and child.

More traditions

Odin rides to Hel, W. G. Collingwood, after the Poetic Edda.

Elsewhere in the world

Deities in other traditions who share a theme with Osiris: death and the underworld, earth, harvest and fertility. This is overlap in one area only.

Norse

Osiris

Key myth

Primary sources

Place in the family graph

More traditions

Elsewhere in the world

Odin

Sif

Baldr

Hel

Freyr

Freyja

Rán

Ninlil