Abydos

Abydos was revered as Egypt's most sacred city: the burial place of Osiris and a gateway to the afterlife. Its first lord of the dead was the jackal god Khentiamentiu, 'Foremost of the Westerners', who merged with Osiris. The earliest kings were buried here, and from the Middle Kingdom the tomb of King Djer was honored as Osiris's own.

Each year the Osiris Mysteries reenacted his death and return, with Wepwawet leading the procession to defend his father, as the stela of Ikhernofret records. The myth, with Isis, Nephthys, Anubis and Horus, is told in The Osiris Myth: Murder and Dismemberment and Isis Resurrects Osiris.