Abstract
This two-part lecture examines the ways in which man interacts with Osiris, through his definition as " savior " of mankind. The starting point is the study of the forms of Osiris present in the chapel of Osiris " master of life / who rescues the unfortunate " at Karnak, including in particular that of Osiris " the savior " (pȝ šd). This divine qualification became particularly frequent from the New Kingdom onwards, whether it gave its name to an independent god, Shed, responsible for healing the bites and stings of venomous animals, or whether it was applied to already well-established gods, first Amun, then Khonsu and Osiris. The salvation provided by the latter god is specified by his epiclesis " who saves his servant from douat ", which appears on the foundation stele of a Kushite Osirian chapel studied and published by E. Graefe and M. Wassef. To understand this possibility of escaping the douat offered through divine mediation, we have a number of sources at our disposal : the phraseology of religious monuments describing the respective powers of the divinities, onomastics, but also literary texts, mainly those from the end of Pharaonic history, which evoke the idea of a possible exit from the underworld.
