DOI article:
Majewska, Aleksandra: "Golden Osiris" in the National Museum in Warsaw
DOI Page / Citation link: https://doi.org/10.11588/diglit.18950#0069
times. He was worshiped as the ruler of the dead as well as the universal god
of naturę and the lord of rebirth.4 His iconography is closely related to the
phenomenon of anthropomorphisation of the representations of gods which
occurred in the early dynastie period when, after the prehistorie phase when
religious representations of gods were limited to animal and symbolic, also
4 J. G. Griffiths, The Origins of Osiris and His Cult, Leiden 1980, pp. 41-45. “Pyramid Texts”
from the times of the 5Ih Dynasty, from the pyramid of king Unis are the oldest written sources
proving the existence of the cult of Osiris.
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of naturę and the lord of rebirth.4 His iconography is closely related to the
phenomenon of anthropomorphisation of the representations of gods which
occurred in the early dynastie period when, after the prehistorie phase when
religious representations of gods were limited to animal and symbolic, also
4 J. G. Griffiths, The Origins of Osiris and His Cult, Leiden 1980, pp. 41-45. “Pyramid Texts”
from the times of the 5Ih Dynasty, from the pyramid of king Unis are the oldest written sources
proving the existence of the cult of Osiris.
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