Osiris · Chapter 6 of 7
The Contendings
A tribunal · Comedy · A letter from the dead
The succession was settled by paperwork, eventually.
A single New Kingdom papyrus preserves the succession dispute as farce, and it is the fullest source for the quarrel. Horus and Set argue their claim before a tribunal for eighty years; the judges dither, take bribes and change their minds. There are boat races in ships of stone, a severed hand, an ill-advised night together. Osiris, dead and off-stage, finally writes in to point out that everyone eating barley owes it to him, and that the underworld's monsters answer to him. The tribunal finds for Horus shortly afterwards.
- A disputed throne
- Judges at a loss
- A letter from below
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