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[Alexandr Korol]

began presiding over the court of the dead in place of Osiris.” I noted this. I became curious about why there were so many contenders and figures responsible for judging the dead and the realm of the afterlife. Why so many? That’s when I started digging deeper and recording my findings. “Occupying a special place among the ancient Greek gods, He was more powerful than Osiris and even the God Ra. He was present at the judgment of the dead by Osiris, where He is called the Scribe of Ma’at in the Ennead of gods. In depictions in the Book of the Dead, He holds writing instruments: a palette and a reed pen. He was considered the author of several funerary texts.” “Thoth was also credited with inventing a year of 365 days instead of 360. According to Plutarch, He won these additional five days – amounting to 1.72 years – in a game of dice and added them to the end of the year, dedicating them to the celebrations honoring Osiris, Set, Haroeris, Isis, and Nephthys, the gods born on these five extra days. A later version of the myth tells that the Goddess Nut was forbidden from giving birth during the 360 calendar days, so her children were born during the five days won by Thoth.” I noted this detail about how He, in a way, contributed to the calendar. “The Egyptians also believed that He kept track of time and created its division into months and years. Thoth held the title of Lord of Time and was considered one of its gods alongside Heh.” I recorded this as well. Then, after what caught my attention while reading the basic, standard information about Thoth on Wikipedia, I started reading about Osiris. “Osiris is the God of Resurrection, the king of the afterlife, and, in Greek mythology, the judge of the souls of the deceased.” “According to the Heliopolitan legend, Osiris established civilization in Egypt, teaching people religion and agriculture, particularly the cultivation of grapevines, thereby ending barbarism. This incited jealousy in his younger brother, Set.” What I found interesting about Osiris was... let me check Wikipedia again. “Osiris was the fourth of the gods who ruled on Earth in primordial times, inheriting power from his great-grandfather Ra, his grandfather Shu, and his father Geb.” It’s also intriguing that “originally, Anubis was the sole judge of the dead in Duat. However, this high office was usurped by Osiris at the end of the Old Kingdom, around the end of the third millennium BCE. Osiris, considered a deceased pharaoh, took over Anubis’s titles, including ‘Lord of the West’ and ‘Lord of Those Who Are in the West.’” “A popular scene of the Judgment of Osiris began