Archetypes and Myths


Mythic themes are emerging as archetypes now because they are becoming realized in
our collective experience. Myths provide a understanding for our existential living, clarifying,
giving understanding and meaning as to what is being played out, what our role is, and who
we are in the greater scheme of things. The story of Osiris begins with Osiris' murder
by his evil brother, Set. His body was cast into the river, washed ashore and entombed
within a great tree a type of the Djed/Pillar that grew around him.


Eventually he was discovered and extricated from the tree by the great goddess Isis. Isis retrieved and re-membered his parts after which Isis raises Osiris' spine to a vertical position, "making him stable." Resurrecting him to life by means of the words of power taught her by Thoth, the Master Initiator of Light.

The dismembered parts of Osiris represent the spiritual fragmentation of the human condition. His restoration was of the human body, the spiritual body and the seven distinct spiritual bodies comprised the risen Osiris body. As such, the raising of Osiris was the central fact in the structure of the Egyptian universe, for each person aspired to become resurrected after death. To become as Divine energy.

In the Egyptian book of the Dead, Making the Transformation into the God Osiris. He who Giveth Light in the Darkness is uniting the two fighters Horus and Set, deities who represent the principles of light and darkness who live in the body, raising him that hath fallen Osiris. I, Thoth have re-membered him, I have overthrown the destroyers , I have lighted the darkness. This was the chanting expressed in the Book of the Dead. There is light and meaning for a person in this.



The Djed/ Pillar

 

 

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