About 1250 BC, during the 19th dynasty of the New Kingdom, on a scroll of cursive pictograms, Osiris (left) and Isis (right)
Ancient Egyptian are famous for many things, such as mummy production, Great Pyramid , complex writing system and belief in the afterlife. Given that death and worship of many gods are so prominent in this culture, who is the Death of Ancient Egyptian ?
Although Osiris is generally considered to be the God of the Underworld or the God of the Undead of Egyptian , things are not that simple.
It is wrong to call Osiris a god of death. He does not bring death, nor causes death, he is the monarch of the dead. In fact, he is also a god of life, ensuring the reproduction of plants, animals and humans.
The ancient Egyptians believed that Osiris was a special god; after he "dead", his life was restored in the ritual.
Osiris is unusual among the Egyptian gods, as he himself has passed away and, with the help of the rituals held for him, restored his life in a new state of deformation. The ordinary dead in Egypt hope to go through the same process of transformation and recovery through the same rituals held for Osiris, so in a sense Osiris is their role model.
Other Egyptian gods are related to the dead, such as Anubis , Horus , Hasol and Isis. However, it is also inaccurate to call any of them death. Anubis, with the Jackal Head, is a particularly important god related to death. He is "the god of anticorrosion". In Egyptian mythology, Anubis made the earliest mummy—Osiris himself.
The ancient Egyptians did not worship death, so they did not worship death.
The ancient Egyptians' closest to "Death" may be an Egyptian god with almost no records called "Death, the Great God". There was a god in ancient Egypt called ‘death, the great god’, but this god was rarely proven to be an evil existence, not a beneficial existence.
One of the few examples of this mysterious god being recorded appeared on papyrus from the 21 Dynasty about 3,000 years ago. This papyrus shows a "winged snake with two pairs of legs and one's head, his tail on the jackal's head".
The text on papyrus says that this god is called "death, the great god who created God and man". It is possible that the person who wrote this papyrus tried to create this "death, the great God", but it never became popular.
Therefore, although the Egyptians have gods dedicated to the dead and mummified, the idea of God dedicated to death has never had its own life.
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