Was Osiris born of a virgin?

 

Osiris is the son of the Earth god Geb, and the sky godess Nut. There is no reference of Nut being a virgin when Osiris was concieved, so it can be logically assumed that Geb and Nut created Osiris in the natural way.

 

Son of god

 

Granted, as Osiris is the son of the earth god, Geb. However, this means different things between the cult of Osiris and Christianity. While Jesus is a member of an eternally existing Holy Trinity, Osiris is a finite being with a beginning and, as we will see momentarily, a very gruesome end.

 

Violent death

 

It would seem that copycat theorists are more than happy to take just about any death as being similar to Jesus' death. However, here in the land of the logical, it is better to tell the whole story. Osiris' death, while brutal, does not bear any resemblance to Jesus' crucifixion. The story of Osiris' death begins when he intends to expand his rule from Egypt to the entire world. He sets off on a journey to conquer the world, leaving his wife, Isis (who is also his sister), to watch over Egypt until he returns.

 

When he eventually returns, having secured his throne over all the Earth, he finds Isis has been a wise ruler, keeping Egypt in the pristine condition in which he left it. There is only one problem: His brother, Set, is plotting to kill him. So Seth creates a coffin according to Osiris' measurements, and one way or another he tricks Osiris into laying inside it. Quickly, Seth shuts the lid, seals it with lead and throws it into the river nile.

 

This is different to Jesus' death for a number of reasons. First, Set tricked Osiris, but no one tricked Jesus. He went to the cross willingly. Second, Jesus' death was on a cross, and only once he was dead was he placed in his tomb. At no point was the Nile involved.

 

Did Osiris rise again?

 

After Set throws Osiris' body into the river Nile, he takes over his throne, leaving a devastated Isis to find his body. She finds it and hides it in a marsh. In some variations of the story, she uses magic to temporarily raise Osiris so he can impregnate her with a son (Horus) to avenge Osiris' death. Osiris, however, dies again almost immediately in this variant.

 

Set then finds the body of Osiris, hidden by Isis, and in his anger he tears it into fourteen pieces, scattering them across the world. Isis then searches for the fourteen pieces, finding all but one, which was eaten by a fish. She then wraps it in bandages and gives her beloved husband a proper burial. This became the first mummy, and the gods, impressed by Isis' devotion to Osiris, decided to raise him as an akh (a type of Egyptian spirit) so that he could rule the underworld forever.

 

At no point in any of these myths is Osiris permenantly raised with his body perfectly intact. He does not rise of his own accord, conquering death so that his followers can inherit eternal life in Heaven. Far from it, Osiris rules over the underworld as an akh. Jesus, by contrast, slew death like a farmer slays a fox after his chickens. He rose of his own accord, bodily, and then ascended to Heaven so that his followers can one day join him in his eternal kingdom.

 

Conclusion

 

When it comes to comparing Jesus to Osiris, copycat theorists have no leg to stand on. Osiris was not born of a virgin, but instead to Ged and Nut, through natural means. Neither Jesus nor Osiris were born on December 25th, and both suffered very different deaths. It is claimed that Osiris also rose from the dead, but in the one variation of the myth where Isis does rise Osiris, she does so only to sleep with him one more time in the hope of concieving a child to avenge him, after which he immediately dies again. It is truly amazing that this topic should even be discussed, as a quick Google search for "Osiris" will provide numerous results giving details of Osiris legends.