Golden Bough. A Study in Magic and Religion. Part 4. Adonis Attis Osiris. Volume 1
Author: first_name:  James
last_name: Frazer
Language: English
Year: 1914

The fifth volume and the first of two in the fourth part of Frazer's seminal work on the evolution of belief deals with the semi mythological legends of the Mediterranean and the eastern civilizations. Many analogies are traced between the worship of Osiris and the worship of the dead, especially of dead kings. The conclusion to which these analogies appear to the point is that under the mythical pall of the glorified Osiris, the god who died and rose again from the dead, there once lay the body