(urth) The Osiris complex

David Stockhoff dstockhoff at verizon.net
Fri Nov 18 11:41:18 PST 2011


On 11/18/2011 2:03 PM, James Wynn wrote:
> On 11/18/2011 12:25 PM, David Stockhoff wrote:
>> Upon hearing that Osiris was gone, Isis set out to look for him.
>>
>> [James has identified Isis with Khypris, Pas's daughter, though 
>> Echidna is his wife]
>
> No Kypris is the scan of Typhon's mistress.

OK

Still Isis though? And also a love goddess, correct?
>
>>
>> Isis:
>> Consequently, the story became that before resurrecting Osiris, Isis 
>> put together 13 of the 14 parts, but was unable to find the 14th, his 
>> phallus, which was eaten by the oxyrhynchus fish (a fish with an 
>> unusual curved snout resembling depictions of Set). So Isis created a 
>> phallus for him, and then attempted to revive him.
>
> Regarding the devoured phallus, there is that fish that ate Mamelta, 
> but there is also Tussah who was murdered by the Ayuntamiento (by from 
> their submarine lair) at about the same time as Pas. Once again, it 
> would be handy for Tussah to be a clone of Typhon. This would make 
> Tussah's murder part of the plot against Pas. Still, we could fudge 
> ALL of this by positing that Typhon was possessing Tussah when he made 
> his "Although he is not the son of my body" speech. So Lemur was after 
> Tussah, but the rebel gods were after Pas.


Yep, yep, yep.



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