Osiris, God of the Afterlife

Where did Osiris come from?

Osiris was the son of Geb, the Earth God, and Nut the Sky Goddess. This was a divine pairing that flipped the usual mythological roles of Earth mother and Sky father. Osiris was not an only child. He was brother to Isis, Set, and Nephthys, and sometimes Horus the Elder. Osiris’s role initially was to be a god of fertility and agriculture. He later evolved into the god of the afterlife resurrection, and the dead, embodying the cycle of death and rebirth.

Luke 20: ³⁷But in the account of the burning bush, even Moses showed that the dead rise, for he calls the Lord ‘the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.’^[b] ³⁸He is not the God of the dead, but of the living, for to him all are alive.”

The God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob is the God of the Living.

Osiris began as a local deity of Busiris, a city in Egypt, where he may have represented chthonic fertility – the life giving power of the underworld. He rose to prominence around 2400 BCE. Osiris’s skin color is green or black skin symbolizing (rebirth or justice) life and resurrection.

This goes into the Buddhist beliefs on reincarnation as you come back to life in the form that will meet out the most justice to you for your former life and lifestyle. Core beliefs about rebirth include no permanent soul. Unlike Hinduism, Buddhism denies the existence of an eternal, unchanging soul. What we call the self is a temporary bundle of five aggregates; form, sensation, perception, mental formations, and consciousness which constantly change. Rebirth is driven by karma, the moral quality of one’s actions. Good actions, kusala karm, lead ot favorable rebirths while harmful actions, ajusala karma, lead to suffering in future lives. Samsara is the cycle of birth, death, and rebirth. It is considered unsatisfactory, dukkha, and painful. The goal is to break free from samsara by attaining nirvana, the cessation of craving and the cessation of ignorance.

In Buddhism, there is no soul, so what continues is a stream of consciousness or casual continuity. Some traditions liken it to a flame passing from one candle to another but not the same flame yet not entirely different either.

The six realms of rebirth depends on your karma. You may be reborn in one of the six as gods, demi-gods, humans, animals, hungry ghosts, or hell beings.

Tibetan Buddism bardo are traditions which describe an intermediate state or bardo between death and rebirth, lasting up to 49 days. This belief shapes many Tibetan funeral rituals.

So, simply Buddhism teaches that life is a flow, not a fixed identity. Rebirth is less about who you were and more about the conditions you create now.

Robert says rebirth to him is like when you accept Christ, you have a rebirth you are in the same body but your spirit is changed, cleansed, renewed and form that initial rebirth you are becoming more holy each day.

In the Bible, fire is often depicted as a means of purification and refining God’s people. It symbolizes God’s presence, judgment, and transformative power.

For instance, in Malachi 3:2- 3, God describes Himself as a refiner’s fire, purifying His people like gold and silver.

Hinduism and the unchanging soul…Atman, is the one of its most profound and poetic teachings. Atman is the true self, the eternal essence within every living being. It does not change. It is indivisible and beyond the body and mind. It is the pure consciousness that witnesses your personality, emotions, and thoughts.

Atman is not bound by time, space or form unlike the ego, ahankare or the mind, citta.

School of Thought	View of Ātman and Brahman
Advaita Vedanta	Ātman is Brahman—there is no separation.
Dvaita Vedanta	Ātman and Brahman are distinct but eternally linked.
Vishishtadvaita	Ātman is part of Brahman, like a spark from a fire.

Osiris is the god of the dead. It is an interesting realm and how it envelopes and distributes the soul isn’t it.