Osiris

Summary

Dominique Pagani mentions Osiris mainly through the myth of his dismemberment. He returns to this motif several times between 2017 and 2023. In the sessions on Nerval's Angélique, he presents Osiris as the martyred, dismembered god whose fragments Isis searches for and gathers, with emphasis on the fragmented phallus12. In later sessions, he gives the number of pieces: fourteen. He adds that these pieces fell into the Nile and fertilise its water. This is the case in a session on the standing stones of the Corsican Neolithic3 and in a session on art4. In 2023, he recalls that Osiris was torn apart by an enemy brother5. In another context, during a session devoted to Adotevi and negritude, he mentions Osiris for a different reason: in the scribes' hagiographic accounts, Pharaoh claims to be his descendant6.

1. 1#4.3 Angélique (by Nerval)11 Dec 2017 · 1:31:14
2. 2#4.7 Angélique (by Nerval)12 Apr 2018 · 1:30:48
3. 3Between sea and mountain, the standing stones of Valinco (the Corsican Neolithic)24 Nov 2020 · 24:04
4. 4#9 Pictures at an Exhibition: art, seen from here or from the other side?10 Feb 2022 · 34:49
5. 5A springtime of the peoples?18 Mar 2023 · 1:19:06
6. 6Adotevi: Negritude and negrologists (2017)8 Jun 2017 · 39:53

Summary produced automatically from 8 of the passages below, to be reviewed; the numbers link to the moment in the session.