A god between life and death

The mythological Trinity or Triad: Osiris, Horus and Isis

In Egyptian mythology there are many legends about the relationship between life and death, often expressed in a struggle between light and dark.
In the myth of Osiris and Isis, as a life-death-rebirth deity, Horus/Osiris (life/death) became a reflection of the annual cycle of crop harvesting as well as reflecting people's desires for a successful afterlife, and so the legend became extremely important, outstripping all others.

The myth concerns the death of Osiris, the god of the Afterlife and the dead, the travel of his sister-wife Isis searching his body and the birth of Horus, the ancient Egyptian's national patron god.