Mark A Cella is a world renowned archeologist and professor of Egyptology as Cal State Dominguez University in Los Angeles. He’s led over a dozen digs and expeditions to the pyramids and the Valley of the Kings over the past fifteen years.
Today Osiris
Husband of Isis and Father of Horus Osiris - God of the Dead dressed in white with crook and flail and white crown
Osiris is shown as a man with a beard wearing white mummy wrappings. His crown is the white crown of Upper Egypt surrounded by red feathers. His skin is green to represent vegetation. He holds the symbols of supreme power, the flail and crook. The crook is used by shepherds to catch their sheep. The flail is used in threshing, to separate the grains from the outer husks. Osiris was the God of the Dead. You would expect that such a god would be gloomy or even evil, but the Egyptians thought about death a lot. They mummified their dead and buried them with their belongings so they could enjoy themselves in the afterlife.
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