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The moral element which distinguished the Osirian faith has disappeared, and salvation is made to depend on the knowledge of a mystical apocalypse.

From The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia by Sayce, A. H. (Archibald Henry)

The Osirian heaven had no place for the idle and inactive.

From The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia by Sayce, A. H. (Archibald Henry)

At death the corpse of a Mexican was dressed in the robes peculiar to his guardian deity, and in this can be perceived an analogy to every dead Egyptian becoming an Osirian, or Osiris himself.

From The Mythologies of Ancient Mexico and Peru by Spence, Lewis

Here on his judgment throne sat Osiris, surrounded by the forty-two assessors of divine justice from the forty-two nomes of Egypt, while Thoth and the other deities of the Osirian cycle stood near at hand.

From The Religions of Ancient Egypt and Babylonia by Sayce, A. H. (Archibald Henry)

Upon an image of immortal stone, Seated and vast, the moon of Luxor falls, Lending to it a stillness that appals, A mystery Osirian and strange.

From Many Gods by Rice, Cale Young