CHAPTER 8 - The Legend of Osiris and Isis

This fascinating legend covers the entire period of Cyclic Catastrophism including proto-Venus’ role in its initiation. As is true in a number of ancient cultures, the primary deity, Osiris in Egypt, was originally associated with the flaming proto-Venus. As discussed previously, its birth out of Jupiter triggered the entire period of one-hundred 30-year cyclic encounters of priori-Mars with the Earth. For a few centuries after its ‘birth’, it was so bright that it could be seen in the day sky along with the Sun, as evidenced by one name for proto-Venus in the Rg Veda, Surya, meaning ‘sun maiden’. In the night sky it trailed a glorious tail, similar to, but millions of times brighter than any comet. On its first close pass, as Narmer/Osiris, proto-Venus scorched the Earth, creating the Sahara desert, desiccating the Middle East and central Asia all the way to Tibet. A clue to its comet-like form is found in the so-called ‘crown of Upper and lower Egypt’ (pschent), associated with Osiris in the first dynasty (Figures 1 & 2).

8.1 Osiris’ Casket

When proto-Venus first raged through the solar system it was unrivaled in power (brightness or radiant power). In the Rg Veda, it was said to have had ‘innumerable’ battles (close encounters) with priori-Mars (Indra), which proto-Venus (as Agni) ‘usually won’. The closest of these encounters tidally raised what is now known as the Tharsis Bulge on Mars, forming its ancient ‘dog-star’ shape, and subsequent encounters ejected priori-Mars into an eccentric orbit that intersected that of the Earth. Within a few hundred years proto-Venus’ encounters with priori-Mars, the Earth and the Sun at perihelion passes, reduced its orbital eccentricity to the point that it’s aphelion barely approached Earth’s orbit. Lacking further close encounters, the molten proto-Venus began to cool down and a thin crust formed, which muted its bright glow. This was incorporated in the legend, as Osiris having been tricked by his enemies and sealed in a coffin or casket.


Around this date the first capture of priori-Mars in Earth orbit occurred and the Nun, the Oceanus Borealis (northern ocean identified on Mars) formed as the tidal influence of the Earth drew all the water in its northern hemisphere toward its north pole. Thus the Osiris legend couches the transfer of Osiris’ power from proto-Venus to priori-Mars in terms of his coffin being thrown into the sea. This power, manifested by the subsequent extension (over 2000 km) of the spectacular, flaming lava-column at its north pole, surrounded by the Nun, gave rise to the notion that Osiris’ coffin had become encased in a tree trunk, because of the vertical lava tubes that encased the column. When priori-Mars left its geostationary orbit at the end of each fifteen-year encounter, Osiris was merely imagined to sleep within the Amenta (the underworld of priori-Mars) and would rise up again fifteen years later after the next capture.

8.2 The Death of Osiris

Believe it or not, the lunar maria, currently believed to be 4 billion year old ‘lava flows’, were created as the people of the Earth watched in awe less than 3,000 years ago. This is quite clearly described, as the legend of Osiris and Isis continues. The 30-year closest approach of proto-Venus (Set) triggered the release of priori-Mars, establishing the adversarial relationship between Set and Osiris. These releases also involved the alignment of the Sun and Moon with the planet, which occurred at a vernal equinox. The enormous convulsions at these times resulted in the shattering of the Osiris column due to the blasting of enormous glowing, hot rock bodies into space through the same volcanic vent at the north pole. On such occasions, the Moon (Isis), Osiris’ consort, passed behind him (was obscured) as usual. In the legend this is stated as ‘One time when Isis was away, Set, (proto-Venus) killed Osiris, cutting his body into fourteen pieces and spreading them far apart so that he could never be resurrected’. Physically, this described fourteen large hot bodies being ejected in rapid-fire succession from deep inside priori-Mars through the same vent from which the lava column (Osiris) rose. The notion of the spreading of his body parts was based on the resulting stream of fourteen large glowing bodies which arced outward and impacted the near-side of the (now reappeared) Moon, one after another. The legend concludes with Isis, going all ‘around the world’, finding the fourteen pieces of Osiris’ body and placing a monument at each location.

The Rg Veda uses a specific term, ambhamsi (streams), to describe such rapid-fire sequences ejected from the same volcanic vent, which were apparently quite common during the convulsions. Astronomical evidence of these ‘streams’ is still present in the form of many identified ‘families’ of near earth asteroids, which remain in similar orbits to this day.


The fourteen large hot glowing bodies from deep within priori-Mars barely reached the orbit of the Moon and impacted one after another at low velocities on its near side, where a kilometer thick layer of small rocks and dust, ejected by many previous convulsions of priori-Mars, had accumulated. This regolith cushioned their impacts and because the bodies were still very hot, therefore soft, they shattered upon impact on the Moon and remained in the basins created by their impacts, forming the lunar maria shown in Figure 13.

Not realizing any connection with an Egyptian legend, modern science has determined there are exactly fourteen maria. Thus the lunar maria are the monuments placed by Isis, the Moon, in the Egyptian myth. Perhaps, because the ‘monuments’ on the Moon remained so visible, this event was considered the death of Osiris, and subsequent appearances of the great lava column were considered to be Osiris’ ‘son’, Horus. ... In fact, there is a holiday, celebrated to this day in Egypt, called ‘the day that Osiris entered into the Moon’.