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Osiris = Dionysus (1)

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04 Religious and philosophical literature and poetry
03 Religious festivals, cults, rituals and practices



 		Keywords
Osiris
Typhon
Period
6th century CE
Roman Empire 		Channel
Christian-Greek philosophers and scholars

Text
pseudo-Nonnus, Epiphany 19 (Scholia):
Osiris was considered among the Egyptians (to be) a god, and some of them say that he is the same as Dionysus, but others some other (god). This Osiris, therefore, they say was torn by Typhon, and there was great mourning among the Egyptians, so that all the time they make memorial of the tearing of Osiris. And they say that, as Dionysus was torn by Titans, so too was Osiris by Typhon; now this Typhon was a demon.

Source (list of abbreviations)
pseudo-Nonnus, Epiphany 19 (Scholia)

Bibliography

Brock 1971, 68Brock, Sebastian. The Syriac Version of the Pseudo-Nonnos Mythological Scholia. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1971.

Amar Annus


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