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**Abydos**      [|http://www.all-abegypt.com/abydos.htmlout-] http://www.1worldtours.com/Abydos.htm http://www.kch42.dial.pipex.com/egypttour_abydos.htm http://www.mysteries-in-stone.co.uk/abydos.htm  We are the nome of Abydos.Our colors are green,black and white. This is a little background about us!

Abydos was the favored burial ground of the Egyptians for over 3000 years. Everyone thought that if you had a tomb or monument in Abydos then you would share in Osiris' resurrection. Our pharoh, or Noble man, was considered "the Living Horus." Abydos was known for monuments to those who had lived in "the Land of the Nile." Osiris, Isis, and Horus were the traid of gods for Abydos. All egyptians tried to make a pilgrimage to the main cult center in Abydos sometime in their lifetimes or, at the very least to be burried there. The Abydeans claimed to have Osiris' head from his dismemberment by his evil brother Set. The myth of Osiris told of a pharaoh, beloved of Isis, who was killed by his jealous brother Set. Set cut Osiris into fourteen pieces, and using a magic formula given her by Thoth, raised him to live again. After his rebirth he begot his son Horus, who later avenged his father. Osiris became the symbolic of the hope for rebirth. Also we have two tools the flail and the crook.The sun's power was given to Horus through Isis."The eye of Horus"