Betrayal of Osiris

The Osiris myth is the most elaborate and influential story in Akhmun religion and mythology. It concerns the murder of the god Osiris, presumed to be a primeval king of Akhmun, and its consequences. Osiris's murderer, his protege Set, usurps his throne. Meanwhile, Isis, the mother of Osiris, forms the god Sobek from the blood of the slain Osiris. In most versions, the story ends with the prophesised restoration of Osiris' body by Sobek and his son Horus, and Sobek's revenge upon Set as well as the gods that betrayed the people of Akhmun.

Betrayal and Death of Osiris
At the start of the story, Osiris rules the land, having inherited the kingship from his ancestors in a lineage stretching back to the creation of the world by Ra. Little information about the reign of Osiris appears in Akhmun sources; the focus is on his death and the events that follow. Osiris is connected with civilisation, righteous kingship, and the rule of maat, the ideal order whose maintenance is a fundamental goal in Akhmun culture. Set is closely associated with wildness, savagery and the arcane. Therefore, the slaying of Osiris symbolizes the struggle between order and disorder, civilisation and the return to barbarity, and the disruption of life by death.

The story goes that Set cut Osiris's body into pieces and scattered them across the land, with most buried underground. Cult centers of Osiris all over Akhmun have, at various times, claimed to possess pieces of the corpse.