Behold, I will liken you to a cedar in Lebanon, with fair branches and forest shade, and of great height, its top among the clouds. -Ezekiel 31:3
Isaiah 2:13
"And upon all the cedars of Lebanon, [that are] high and lifted up, and upon all the oaks of Bashan,"
Lebanon is exactly halfway between Jerusalem and Egypt. When the chest holding Osiris body was set afloat on the mediteranian sea by the workers of the devil god Set, it came to rest in a tree in Lebanon. I will quote the story from E.A. Wallis Budge, "If Osiris will live forever, then will the people live forever..." The body of Osiris had been lost purposely by Set, Budge says, "Isis tracked him by the help of dogs, and bred him up to be her guard and attendant. Soon after, she learned that the chest had been carried by the sea to Byblos, Lebanon. Where it had been gently laid by waves among the branches of a cedar tree, which in a very short time had grown to a magnificent size and had enclosed the chest within its trunk. The king of the country, admiring the tree, cut it down and made a pillar for the roof of his house of that part which contained the body of Osiris. When Isis heard of this she went to Byblos, and, gaining admittance to the palace through the report of the royal maidens, she was made nurse to one of the King's sons. Instead of nursing the child in the ordinary way, Isis gave him her finger to suck, and each night she put him into the fire to consume his mortal parts, changing herself the while into a swallow bemoaning her fate. But the Queen once saw her child in the flames and cried out, thus depriving him of Immortality. The Isis told the Queen her story and begged for the Pillar which supported the roof. This she cut open, and took out the chest and he husband's body, and her lamentations were so terrible that one of the royal children died of fright. She then brought the chest by ship to Egypt, where she opened it and embraced the body of her husband, weeping bitterly.bitterly." This is yet another one of those little interlappings of the egyptian mythos with the judao-christian mythos. It is as if Jesus is the Cedar of lebanon, Ezekiel said this referring to the Tetragrammaton YHVH, "Behold, I will liken you to a cedar in Lebanon, with fair branches and forest shade, and of great height, its top among the clouds." -Ezekiel 31:3 So, obviously it is christian and approved by the various churches that Jesus is the Cedar of Lebanon. And it refers to him by this title in many christian prayerbooks. In conclusion, I would like to leave you with this thought. Perhaps the Osiris mythos were a prophecy of the future rather than a lesson in history. Aren't the most compelling books in the bible and other literature genres actually books about the future? The Book of Revelations for instance is a book about the future, the Quatrains of Nostradamus, why do we always assume that Osiris, Isis, Horus story is about Gods who lived before history? Maybe it's an analogy or a metaphor for something that will happen in the future or something that happened between pre-history and modern times...
'Cedar of Lebanon was important to various civilizations. The trees were used by the ancient Phoenicians for building trade and military ships, as well as houses and temples. The Egyptians used its resin for mummification, and its sawdust was found in the pharaoh's tombs. The Sumerian Epic of Gilgamesh designates the cedar groves of Lebanon as the dwelling of the gods to where Gilgamesh ventured. They once burned cedar in their ceremonies. Jewish priests were ordered by Moses to use the bark of the Lebanon Cedar in circumcision and treatment of leprosy. Isaiah used the Lebanon Cedars as a metaphore for the pride of the world[16] According to the Talmud, Jews once burned Lebanese cedar wood on the Mount of Olives to announce the new year. Kings far and near requested the wood for religious and civil constructs, the most famous of which are King Solomon's Temple in Jerusalem and David's and Solomon's Palaces. It was also used by Romans, Greeks, Persians, Assyrians and Babylonians.[17]' -(wikipedia.com)