Berlin State Museums
After Mark Anthony's campaign to Egypt, the cult of Isis made its way into early Rome. The focus of the cult was due to the myth of death and rebirth of the god Osiris. In the myth Osiris's brother Seth was jealous of his rule, and so he murdered Osiris and cut him into pieces. Osiris's wife, Isis, took his pieces and ate them, later resurrected Osiris by giving birth to him. The rituals of the cult are unknown however there's slight evidence that to be initiated a person had to experience something symbolic to death and rebirth. The evidence is that of a man named Apuleius and his story titled the Golden Ass. Where he was interested in the cult, and later declared he would be reborn into a new person.
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