What did Osiris and Isis do for the Egyptians?

After Isis by her craft had learned the Secret Name of Re, Osiris became sole ruler of Egypt and reigned on earth as Re had done. He found the people both savage and brutish, fighting among themselves and killing and eating one another. read more

The Egyptians envisioned the events of the Osiris myth as taking place sometime in Egypt's dim prehistory, and Osiris, Horus, and their divine predecessors were included in Egyptian lists of past kings such as the Turin Royal Canon. read more

To the ancient Egyptians, Osiris was identified as the god of the afterlife, the underworld, and the dead, but more appropriately as the god of transition and resurrection. Osiris was also associated with the cycles of nature such as vegetation and the annual flooding of the Nile River. read more