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The perilous journey swelled with love as did Isis with the conception of a son, Horus. They arrived home, in Egypt cloaked in secrecy for the threat of Seth was still upon them. Isis thus hid Osiris in the marshes by the Nile, going off to make preparations for a more suitable home for her beloved, Egypt’s cherished king.
Yet chaos never sleeps. Seth was watching her movements. Seeing his plan to be rid of Osiris had failed, he leapt upon the sleeping form and with a dagger, dis membered him into fourteen pieces. He threw these pieces all over the land of KMT. Osiris’ blood soaked the land as his splintered parts flew to the heavens, becoming one with the moon…..appearing and disappearing fourteen times over the turning of the year’s wheel……Isis was once again distraught with grief….As a kite she flew to the moon…keening…..screeching….
Beloved ! Beloved! How long beloved? Why must I suffer your disappearance? Osiris….I shall not rest until I rest with thee…..
As a kite she flew over the land…..feeling….seeking her beloved. One piece at a time, painfully recovered…..painfully sought for union…..without knowing where the next would be found….Isis, great mistress of magic, would not give up…..
One, two………six, seven……nine, ten……twelve, thirteen……Thirteen in all….one missing piece. She stretched her mind to distant memory….and she witnessed in sorrow as a fish devoured the missing fourteenth piece. Returning to the Great of Great, in the watery Nun, she cast upon the great potter’s wheel, the lost phallus….
Asking help from her sister, Nephytes, the two joined forces, love united, to re member Osiris, to bring him back to life. Flying about him they sang the lamentations, the song of love, of longing, of union….
So it was Osiris, cruelly dis membered, was lovingly re membered…..
My heart of hearts....gladdened...Honey dripping upon my heart! I resume my place in the heavens viewing the fertile land.....
I see beloved Egypt….I hear laughter, love songs, and prayers….drifting to me like stars, each a flame of love…..
Osiris remains in the Land Beyond, appearing and disappearing with the cycle of the moon…..germinating the seeds and seasons, guiding growth, life, and re birth....
Horus, too continues his presence as champion of truth and justice…..as protector of the people, living in the winged scarab that flies above the many portals in the great temples……
And Isis…..the Lady known by a thousand times a thousand names…..She is the creative loving force guiding birth and death…..As one who knows the way in and out of the great Nun she is a guide and teacher, , helping each find their way through the dangerous and confusing maze of life…..
Now you re member….you see the streams that run from the Nun……follow them through time…..follow them through cycles of memory….through union and separation……See the flowering of the blue lotus, of KMT, beloved Egypt….Celebrate the glory of the birthplace of civilization!
Come, re member….Fly above the great temple of Abydos in Upper Egypt….come…with your mind’s eye see upon the wall of the temple, the hall of re membrance….