“By the end of the New Kingdom, a tradition had developed that Set had cut Osiris's body into pieces and scattered them across Egypt.
Cult centers of Osiris all over the country claimed that the corpse,
or particular pieces of it,
were found near them.
The dismembered parts could be said to number
as many as forty-two,
each piece being equated with one of the forty-two nomes,
or provinces, in Egypt.
Thus The God of Kingship becomes the embodiment of His Kingdom.”
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