Greeting+Osiris

Greeting Osiris

"Blessed be Osiris. Blessed be the god in His names, The salvation of priests and goatherds, The King of Kings, the Lord of Lords. He hears the prayers of all men, animals, Bas. He hears the dead murmur with their mouths full of sand. He uplifts the sky, rents the veil, reveals the temple.

His flesh is burnished bright as copper. His eyes are like blue stones underwater. Priest and man, his body shimmers turquoise green. He is light, the White Crown, the joy of heaven and earth. He is solitude and perfection, the strength of earth. His body widens and people are welcomed into it; His embrace is sleep.

He is the fire dancing about the heads of dreamers, The instant of forever which sparks poet and lovers. He is the mind of the ibis, the instinct of animals, The strength of bone, the pulse of blood. The living soul of the land, he is matter and mind taking form. He is what he imagines, divine, a spark thrown into dust. He is a star in a dark tomb, a shadow cast by sunlight. He is life that cannot be contained."

Hymns of Osiris