Post by Auset on Jun 18, 2004 10:34:14 GMT -5
This story of Ausar is to be found in Plutarch, De Iside et Osiride. This tale is mainly from the Margaret Murray version.
When Ausar was born there were man marvels and wonders prodigies and signs. A voice was said to have been heard over all the earth saying "The lord of all comes forward to the light." A woman drawing water from one of the sacred wells rushed out saying "Ausar the king is born."
Now traditionally at the time of the birth of Ausar, Kemit was a barbarous coutnry where men were constatnly at war and where cannibalism was practiced. Ausar became the king of a small state in the delta, Busiris, and from there he moved to become kinf of all Kemit. He taught his people to cultivate the land and to plant grain, weat and barley, to grow vines to make lawas and to abolish their savage customs. This he continued to do for many years, until having subduded the Kemetics her went on to give the arts of civilzation to Western Asia.
His brohter Seth hated Ausar, and while Ausar was away he gathered together seventy two conspiritors who planned to destroy Ausar. When Ausar returned they met him and invited him to a banquet where the prize was to be a splendid coffin mad to fit Ausar although he had no idea of this. They held a great feast and when it was over they invited all the guest to try the coffin for size. For one it was too smal, for one it was too large, for one it was toolong. Only when Ausar got into it did it fit perfectly. Then before he had time to get out they nailed down the top and poured molten lead into hte cracks so that he should have no air to breath. Thus died Ausar Unifer, he who is called "Triumphant." and so he became ruller of the Dead and all who are in the west. (the Kemetics regarded the afterward as being in the west).
When Ausar was born there were man marvels and wonders prodigies and signs. A voice was said to have been heard over all the earth saying "The lord of all comes forward to the light." A woman drawing water from one of the sacred wells rushed out saying "Ausar the king is born."
Now traditionally at the time of the birth of Ausar, Kemit was a barbarous coutnry where men were constatnly at war and where cannibalism was practiced. Ausar became the king of a small state in the delta, Busiris, and from there he moved to become kinf of all Kemit. He taught his people to cultivate the land and to plant grain, weat and barley, to grow vines to make lawas and to abolish their savage customs. This he continued to do for many years, until having subduded the Kemetics her went on to give the arts of civilzation to Western Asia.
His brohter Seth hated Ausar, and while Ausar was away he gathered together seventy two conspiritors who planned to destroy Ausar. When Ausar returned they met him and invited him to a banquet where the prize was to be a splendid coffin mad to fit Ausar although he had no idea of this. They held a great feast and when it was over they invited all the guest to try the coffin for size. For one it was too smal, for one it was too large, for one it was toolong. Only when Ausar got into it did it fit perfectly. Then before he had time to get out they nailed down the top and poured molten lead into hte cracks so that he should have no air to breath. Thus died Ausar Unifer, he who is called "Triumphant." and so he became ruller of the Dead and all who are in the west. (the Kemetics regarded the afterward as being in the west).
