Osirian

English Etymology From en Osiris ian. Adjective Of or pertaining to Osiris. en 1928 w:Lewis Spence Mysteries of Britain v. 123 It is, indeed, part of the ritual of the candidate for adeptship into the British mysteries, resembling that for the neophyte into the Osirian, Cabiric or Orphean mysteries. en 1981 w:William Irwin Thompson The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture Rider/Hutchinson & Co. London 242 Nevertheless it is a potentiality, for out of it rises the beetle, the sign for "form" and "coming into being." In the next, the Osirian stage, the night sun penetrates to the Underworld and its rays fall upon the soul in its new form as the body of Osiris. en eponyms