Osiris

“He was murdered, dismembered, scattered across Egypt, and yet he rose — not to walk the earth again, but to rule the world beyond death.”

The parallels between Osiris and Christ are among the most discussed (and most controversial) in comparative religion. Both die. Both are resurrected. Both become lords of the afterlife and judges of the dead. Both offer their followers life beyond death. The differences are critical — Osiris remains in the underworld; Christ ascends; Osiris is reassembled by magic; Christ rises by divine power — but the structural parallels are undeniable and were noted as early as the Church Fathers (Plutarch, Isis and Osiris). As god of vegetation and harvest, Osiris was also the target of the 8th plague: locusts that devoured every green thing in Egypt. The god of agricultural abundance could not protect a single crop.