Osirian

Andjety

ꜥnḏty

KingshipThe deadBusiris

How it changed

A local Delta god of Busiris swallowed by Osiris very early, to the point that he survives mainly as a set of things Osiris inherited from him: the town of Busiris, and quite possibly the crook and flail themselves, which look like a herdsman's tools and may have been Andjety's before they became the emblems every image of Osiris carries.

Cult centre

Busiris (Djedu), in the Delta

Best attested

Old Kingdom onward, and early absorbed

Family

Absorbed almost entirely into Osiris.

Epithets

“Foremost of Busiris”

How to recognise the figure

A man holding the crook and flail, wearing a crown of two feathers on a support.

Others in this group

Osiris

Abydos

Isis

Philae, and Behbeit el-Hagar

Horus

Edfu, Hierakonpolis

Set

Ombos, Avaris