Name:_____________________________________
Mythology
Date: _____________

OSIRIS AND IRIS LEGEND

Who are these characters? List defining characteristics and what each is most known for.

6. Who set down laws, taught peace and set off to spread this way of life to other people?________________

7. Who was consumed with jealousy? ______________________________

8. How did Set murder his brother?

a. He booby-trapped the royal pyramid.
b. He trapped him in a fancy box.
c. He dipped his sleeping mattress in burning ointment that caused Osiris's skin to burn him to death.

9. What blessing did Isis give children?

a. the ability to play and have fun
b. wisdom and telling future
c. health and the desire to learn

10. Where did Isis find the body of Osiris?

a. The Nile River
b. The Phoenician town of Byblos
c. In the Great Pyramid in the Desert

11. Who liked to hunt wild boars in the dead of night with evil all around? ____________________

12. Once Set found his brother he was mad and had what done?

a. He had Osiris transformed into a snake to forever slither on his belly before him.
b. He cut him into 14 peices and scattered them over the Nile River
c. He fed his body to hundred of scorpions who devoured him in an hour

13. Isis looked again for her brother, Osiris. Once she had him mostly back, what did she do?

a. Recreated his body, using magic, embalmed it and then hid it.
b. Joined with him to create an army to defeat Set.
c. She transformed him into a living being once again.

14. Why does Horus prefer to take into battle a horse rather than a fierce lion?

a. A lion is for someone needing help killing the prey, but a horse is best for a strategy preventing an enemy's escape.
b. Lions are not tame and cannot be told what to do like horses.

15. What two ways did Set disguise himself as?

a. a white horse and then a camel
b. a beautiful, charming woman and a little girl
c. a black boar and a hippopopotamus

16. What did Horus disguise himself as?

a. A handsome giant, 12 foot tall, with a 30 foot harpoon
b. The sun, blinding all who came near
c. A beautiful woman

17. Now what do Horus and Set spend their time doing?

a. They cause wars between men by encouraging enmity between them
b. They each compete for the souls of the dead and the rule of the world
c. They rule the underworld

18. Why did the Egyptians embalm the dead and set their bodies beneath great pyramids?

a. They feared their dead spirits
b. So that they wouldn't be eaten
c. So that they are prepared to rise again with Osiriis and come back to life