THE PYRAMIDS of the COLD • Chapter 23 The true meaning of the Osiris beds is about replicating the impactor's composite design by placing Osiris inside some kind of brick

Statuette of Osiris at the Metropolitan Museum of Art: https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/545802

THE PYRAMIDS of the COLD • Study written by Bruno COURSOL (January 2021 to September 2025)

Section C • The composite weighted impactor of the Great Pyramid of Khufu

It is because of the impactor that both pressurized air and pressurized water could have been produced within the Great Pyramid of Khufu. Its composite nature and operating cycle is what the Osiris myth is all about.

Chapter 23 • The true meaning of the Osiris beds is about replicating the impactor's original composite design by placing the body of Osiris inside some kind of brick, immerse the brick into water and then pull it up out of the water

In summary: in previous chapter of The Pyramids of the Cold, we’ve seen the real meaning of the Osiris myth, and that Ra and Osiris are nothing but the reinterpretation and glorification of the two major parts of the Great Pyramid’s impactor. When Ra is about the wooden part of the impactor (Ra was seen as the ‘soul’ of the single Ra-Osiris deity, because the soul doesn’t have any weight), Osiris is about the weight of the impactor (Osiris was seen as the ‘body’ of the single Ra-Osiris deity, because the body does have a weight). Now we’re gonna better understand Osiris.

The process used by the ancient Egyptians to glorify all their scientific knowledge and technological advances metaphorically by creating an entire mythology based on the creation of several thousand gods, goddesses, and myths was based on the idea of representing each of them from as many different perspectives as possible. Every particularity of what was to be reinterpreted in Egyptian religion had to be exploited and put to good use through the glorification process: what it looked like, how it behaved, was it small, fat, thin, wide, slow, fast; or what animal or other element of daily life could it be compared to, etc. It is no coincidence that Osiris became one of the most important gods in the Egyptian pantheon and the star of the famous Osiris myth, and if the ancient Egyptians were eager to obtain copies of the Osiris Beds, it was simply because through these beds, the very nature of Osiris, housed inside a sort of wooden chest, could be represented and idolized. But the Osiris weight was not only that, since he was also constantly literally propelled into water, again and again, the Egyptians therefore naturally compared Osiris to a seed, buried in the ground, which is regularly watered.

[Germinating beds of Osiris] at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New-York. Object Number: 20.2.30. "Beginning in Dynasty 18, beds were made on which soil was molded into the shape of the god of regeneration and ruler of the dead, Osiris." https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/553820

Operating diagram of the Great Pyramid of Khufu showing the crucial role of the composite impactor, similar to that of a piston. The myth of Osiris is nothing more than a reinterpretation and glorification of this particular design, and the ancient Egyptians would likely have used this type of piston-like structure to generate the pressurized air and pressurized water needed for their scientific and technological research.

The fact that the weight of the impactor was placed inside the wooden structure made it look like a seed buried in the ground, ready to germinate; and by being permanently thrown into the waters of the inclined  well, it was as if it were constantly watered. "Epigeal vs. hypogeal germination", by Kat1992: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epigeal_germination  Ancient Egyptian god Osiris by Jeff Dahl: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osiris#/media/File:Standing_Osiris_edit1.svg

23.01  Osiris and the seed metaphor

I initially thought that Osiris was depicted with green skin because the impactor's weight was made of bronze, and that the Egyptians would have represented the glorification of this weight in green, as bronze turns green over time. But there could be another explanation, because Osiris was also the god of fertility and agriculture. If we step back and try to imagine how the ancient Egyptians might have seen Osiris, completely invisible because he was hidden in the wooden coffin and constantly immersed in the waters of the inclined well, we could see him as a seed simply planted in the earth and regularly watered.

Just as the seed contains all the strength of the future plant, Osiris contains all the power of the impactor; and hidden in the wooden cradle Ra, Osiris would have been associated with a well-watered seed, freshly planted in the earth, preparing to germinate. This would explain why Osiris would have become the god of fertility and agriculture.

Diagram of the Great Pyramid's impactor, showing its composite structure, the result of combining a wooden container and a weight. The myth of Osiris is nothing more than a reinterpretation and glorification of this particular design, and the ancient Egyptians would likely have used this type of piston-like structure to generate the pressurized air and pressurized water needed for their scientific and technological research.

23.02  It is perfectly known that Osiris and Ra merged together, and that the Banebdjedet form of Osiris was indeed about some kind of ramming power

Not only the germinating beds of Osiris is a perfect reinterpretation of the composite original design of the impactor, but the idea itself of Osiris merging with Ra, and giving to him all his force and power is already perfectly known, in one of Osiris' aspect: Banebdjedet (also "Banebdjed").

“Ra at this time becomes merged with Osiris, the judge of the dead, and Osiris is seen as the “corpse” and Ra as the “soul” of the single deity Ra-Osiris.” https://www.worldhistory.org/Ra_(Egyptian_God)/

"Osiris' soul, or rather his Ba, was occasionally worshipped in its own right, almost as if it were a distinct god […] This aspect of Osiris was referred to as Banebdjedet. […] As Banebdjed, Osiris was given epithets such as Lord of the Sky and Life of the (sun god) Ra. Ba does not mean "soul" in the western sense, and has to do with power, reputation, force of character, especially in the case of a god. […] Since the ba was associated with power, and also happened to be a word for ram in Egyptian, Banebdjed was depicted as a ram, or as Ram-headed." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osiris  (‘Ram god')

Granite gneiss of the Ram of Amun. Standing figure of King Taharqa. 25th Dynasty, c. 680 BCE, Temple T, Kawa, Egypt. (Ashmolean Museum, Oxford). Photo by James Blake Wiener: https://www.worldhistory.org/image/4955/ram-of-amun/

23.03  When Osiris and Horus are directly associated with 'cooling' and 'cold water'

"Osiris N, take this fresh water, cooled for you by Horus, in your name of He-who-is-come-from-the-fresh-water". […] "The most complete ancient work in existence of the myth of Osiris which we know is that of Plutarch, in his 'De Iside et Osiride'. We know the stratagem used by Seth and his associates, and we know how the conspirator, having locked Osiris precisely by guile in a chest made to his measurements, threw it into the sea, an episode which Plutarch is the only one to relate, began the mourning and the quest of Isis. […] Osiris is designated as the one who had been "put in a chest (deben), in a box and in a bag".Nadine GUILHOU: Les deux morts d'Osiris, d'après les textes des Pyramides." Extracted from the magazine "Egypte", N°10, August 1998: https://www.osirisnet.net/dieux/osiris/e_osiris_03.htm

"But I am parched with thirst and I perish. Give me quickly the cold water flowing forth from the Lake of Memory". Delia, D. (1992). The Refreshing Water of Osiris, page 189. Journal of the American Research Center in Egypt, 29, 181–190. https://doi.org/10.2307/40000492

Germinating beds of Osiris at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New-York. Object Number: 20.2.30. "Beginning in Dynasty 18, beds were made on which soil was molded into the shape of the god of regeneration and ruler of the dead, Osiris." https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/553820

23.04  The reproduction of the impactor's cycle in and out of the well: keeping the grain moist, then left to dry

With the famous 'beds of Osiris' or 'bricks of Osiris', the ancient Egyptians once again demonstrated an extraordinary capacity for the reinterpretation through the mastery of metaphors of how was operated the piston-like impactors they’ve been using for who knows how long before they finally mastered the design in the Great Pyramid. Their reinterpretation was so simple and efficient that probably each Egyptian could, in his own way, relive or replay the true role that Osiris had played in the functioning of the Great Pyramid. Whatever the true nature of the impactor's weight (most likely granite or bronze), the 'Osiris bricks' served to recreate two things:

1 • The fact that Osiris was a weight and that he had been placed inside a sort of wooden chest-impactor

2 • The fact that this impactor, in which Osiris was imprisoned, was constantly thrown into water, then taken out of this water, again and again

The metaphor used here by the ancient Egyptians is that of the seed, which, like the Osiris weight, is both buried and constantly watered from a well.

The germinating wooden beds of Osiris, or bricks of Osiris, are particularly interesting, because the endless cycle of the impactor, constantly beeing thrown in and out of the water of the inclined well, is also duplicated: first the seeds are kept moist until germination, and then the sprouted grain is allowed to dry.

"Beginning in Dynasty 18, beds were made on which soil was molded into the shape of the god of regeneration and ruler of the dead, Osiris. Thickly sown with grain and kept moist until the grain sprouted and grew, then left to dry again, these figures were created as part of a ritual carried out in association with the Osirian Festival of Khoiak."  https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/553820

Osiris-Nepra (E. A Wallis Budge), with wheat growing from his body. From a bas-relief at Philae:   https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Osiris

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