King Seti I addressing Osiris |
In contrast to this correspondence between the king and Osiris, sentiments can be found that reveal an apprehensiveness or dread of the ruler of the Underworld. This ponders the underlying hope of the monarch to be with the sun-god in the sky as a raw phenomenon rather than to live in the unknown and sick regions of Duat. Therefore one text informs us that God Ra will not hand over the king to Osiris while another orders the Underworld-deity to leave the royal tomb outstanding of his bad. Even later when the tutelary role of Osiris offers beyond the sphere of royalty in the Middle Kingdom, in that location exist in the Coffin Texts descriptions of Osiris that stir up a picture of a threatening demon. He glories in massacre, utters cancerous spells against a dead person and works a mafia lying of executioners called Osiriss butcherers painful of fingers or Osiriss fishermen. However, this darker aspect of Osiris is never granted to overbalance his role as the incarnation of dead kingship.