Osiris

Osiris, greatest of Egyptian gods, is the son of Seb (the Earth—here the father) and Nut (Heaven—the mother). He wedded Isis his sister while they were yet in the womb; was slain by Set, was avenged by his son Horus, and judges the dead in the nether world. The myth is generally interpreted by taking Osiris for the Sun, Set for darkness. Osiris had by Nephtys another son Anubis (i.e. Dusk), who is said to have swallowed his father. Osiris has also been identified with the god Ra, with the Moon, with the Nile, and with the annual sun-period or summer (as against the daily appearing sun). For further discussion of the myth, see Isis, and works there quoted; also Wiedemann, Die Religion der Alten Ägypter (1890).