Osiris
the green lord of the silent land
earthSlain and remade, Osiris rules the dead not as a terror but as a gardener of souls; to dream of him is to sense that endings are only the dark soil in which something patient is preparing to grow.
Fragments
Sealed in a chest measured to his own body and cast upon the river, he drifted to a far shore and grew into the heart of a tamarisk tree.
Where his body lay the grain rose green each spring, and the people learned that a buried king could rise as wheat and feed the living.
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