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The Animals of the desert heard of the Death of Osiris first. The Howled and screamed in panic, alerting the people. Those that slept awoke with awful nightmares of drowning or murder. Those awake shouted the news in the street. Mean while the body of Osiris still entrapped within the coffin floated down the nile unseen.
The Howling of the wolves and Jackals alerted Anubis to the news of his fathers death and how it came to be. When he alerted Isis of this Isis Grabbing her sacred knife began to plunge it into her heart, but at the last second began to cut her beautiful hair. She screamed in pain "My husband dead, by his brother! Woo is this day on our mother. Two brothers now cursed for all time. How I loved them both.
With tears in her
eyes she sent Anubis to go and comfort Nephthys her dear sister.
While Isis bear foot began to search the banks of the nile for her beloved.
She came upon a village and in her desperate state the villagers did not
recognize her as The Goddess Isis but as a crazed women ranting.
She asked them "have you seen my king in his golden coffin?" But
they responded "Away with you! and your evil eye. A curse be upon
you!"
"A curse be upon us all!" Isis cried.
For Weeks Isis roomed the banks and the desert Asking all if they had seen him. But they all looked upon her as being mad. The Jackals watched over her at night. One night as Isis lay weeping upon the bank of the nile Sobek a secret companion of Set Came from the river as a Crocodile. He had come to Devour the Goddess. But upon seeing her in such a state took pity and turned away. Isis Screamed out "Have you Seen Him!!" But Sobek kept silent.
Many more weeks passed
and Isis passed a man. She asked him about her beloved, but the man
pushed her aside and said "Away with you old hag"
"Have I grown old
as well?" she wondered. Then from the Papyrus growing in the nile
came a white cow that spoke in a gentle voice "I have seen him. I
have seen your brother your beloved your husband. He dwells now with
me in the womb of time."
"Mother!" cried
Isis. "Nuit!"
Then Isis came upon some children playing with dolls. They put the dolls in a cradle. Then Isis realized this was not a cradle but a coffin. Isis came up to them and asked "What game is this you play?"
The girls know that this was Isis, for they where young and destined to become priestesses of the Goddess. The cried for joy at her visit and explained they had a dream that a man was placed in a jeweled coffin and it floated down the nile to Tanis and out to sea.
