I thought Osiris in his earliest form was a vegetation deity, associated with death in Nature and the annual inundation of the river Nile.

The great mystery festival which began at Abydos was also the same day that grain was planted in the ground.

Osirian seed beds - a perfect example being found in Tut's tomb by Carter - attest to this cult practice,

The germination of the seed symbolised the 'resurrection' of Osiris or life-in-Nature.

Osiris and the myths surrounding him seem to have appeared quite suddenly and fully formed.

I thought Egyptologists contend that the Osiris associated with human death and spiritual resurrection was a later incarnation of the vegetation deity Khenti Amentiu.

The mortuary texts from the fourth dynasty do not seem to associate Osiris with the dead for their "htp di nsw" offerings are to "Inpw" and not to "Asir". It is only by the end of the fifth dynasty that the mortuary offerings are made to Osiris, thereby demonstrating that his role evolved and he supplanted Anubis as the deity associated with human death and spiritual resurrection.