The Myths/Folklore Blog

For this week’s reading, I decided to go over the Ancient Egypt stories because I’ve always found the gods of Egypt extremely interesting. First off, these stories were definitely not what I was expecting – I never realized that the gods of Egypt were at one point human. That makes the gods that much more relatable in the stories told about them, that they walked the Earth just like their believers/subjects, that their power could be seen directly by those who followed them. However, moving on from this, some of these stories were a little disturbing. The most obvious disturbing event from these stories happened in the “Death of Osiris” story, where his brother Set tricks him into laying in a coffin, thereby trapping and killing him. Furthermore, the coffin is thrown into the Nile, where it eventually lands in Syria. It doesn’t end there, though. Osiris’s wife, Isis is so distraught over his death that she endlessly looks for his coffin – when she finds it, she winds up slaying m...