| This connection reflects an Osirian emphasis that the author sees as key to the emergence of Serapis. |
| Gold lay upon the world, and the face of Egypt wore her great osirian look. |
| Mummification was, as has been said, probably an invention of the osirian cult. |
| Did not the Divine Amen-hetep the osirian slay with his own hand more than a hundred lions? |
| In the Osirian Festival of Khoiak this mould was filled with soil and sown with seed, the sprouting plants implying life after death. |
| He was too closely connected with the osirian cycle to be forgotten by the Phoenicians after they had adopted his companions. |
