Osiris And Sumar: The First Egyptian Myth

When humanity first began to form stable civilizations, forms of new weaponry began to spring up, along with the first trickles of government and religion. With the reliable safety these items brought soon came an explosion of advancement in the creative form, such as art, literature and pottery. Lacking however was the advanced science society has today, which in turn left the ancestral peoples of the world grasping for explanations to the unknown. These curiosities were sated with stories meant to explain how things came to be and why everything happened as it did. These myths and oral traditions that were created shaped how early civilizations both saw and interacted with the world in a variety of interesting ways. Sumar was the first
Accordingly, there several ways in which ancient Egyptian mythology played a part in the shaping of their civilization, the first of which including the gods Osiris and Isis. The legend tells of the popular pharaoh Osiris, who was beloved by all of his people, his wife Isis the most of all. However, their nefarious brother Set, jelous of his brother’s power and popularity puts it to his mind to kill the first pharaoh. He successfully accomplishes this terrible task by constructing a sarcophagus and sealing him inside during a party. Isis, able to recover her beloved’s body, enrages Set, who then chops his brother’s body into many pieces, leaving the grieving Isis to reassemble it. It is said that through this action Isis brought life back to her cherished brother, thus conceiving their son Horus, who later avenged his
To illustrate, by the Pharaohs marrying within their own bloodlines they were keeping their family in an undisputed role of power, as it was believed that they were descended from the gods themselves. Doing as the gods did only further enhanced their divine image. In addition to acting as the gods did within marriage, following the burial practice that Osiris underwent gave the Egyptian people hope for an afterlife, as Osiris came back to rule again in the conclusion of the story. Kings hoped that by following the rituals that Isis preformed for her husband that they too would come back to rule