The Coffin and the Nile
Set secretly measured Osiris's body and had a magnificent chest made, then announced at a banquet: whoever fits inside exactly may keep it. Guest after guest tried lying in it, and the moment Osiris lay down, Set's accomplices slammed the lid, nailed it shut, sealed it with lead, and cast the chest into the Nile. The coffin drifted out to sea and washed up at Byblos in Phoenicia, where a growing tree enclosed it. Isis tracked it there and recovered the coffin — the death of Osiris began as a banquet game about "who fits."
Cut Into Fourteen Pieces
Isis hid her husband's body, but Set found it while hunting by night, hacked the corpse into fourteen pieces (forty-two by one account), and scattered them across Egypt to end all hope of resurrection. Isis and her sister Nephthys took the form of two birds and traveled the whole land to recover the limbs one by one; only a single piece, eaten by a fish, could not be found. She wrapped the remains in linen — the mythic archetype of the mummy — and by magic revived Osiris for a moment, conceiving and bearing Horus. Thereafter Osiris returned no more to the mortal world but became king of the underworld: death did not cancel him, only moved him to another throne.