Osiris
c. 2400 BCE – 400 CEattested
Abydos, Egypt
- Egyptian
Murdered by his brother, reassembled by his wife, and thereafter king of the dead. The template for the dying-and-rising god that so many later traditions were compared to.
Known for
- death and reassembly
- judge of the dead
- the green skin of growth
Dates are estimates. A great deal of what this atlas covers is only datable to within a century.