ANOTHER ORIGIN OF DRAMA: EGYPTIAN ORIGIN

THE ABYDOS PASSION PLAY - HOW DRAMA BEGAN

       Very many years ago in Egypt, precisely around 2000 BC, the first drama was acted. Legend has it that Osiris a wise Egyptian king and great warrior was brutally murdered by his brother named Seth and the Queen of Ethiopia along with about 72 others who aided the plot. It was said that he was deceived into lying in a coffin and this coffin was immediately locked by his brother with lead and thrown into the Nile. After he died,  he was cut into many pieces and scattered. His wife Isis was angry and sorrowful and along with her son Horus vowed to avenge the death of her husband.  Isis gathered up the pieces of her husband's body, proclaimed that he had become a god and established a cult in his honor.
       Every year after that, the worshipers acted the death of Osiris which was titled, "THE ABYDOS PASSION PLAY". The drama ended with the resurrection of Osiris. It is said that in the performance of the death of Osiris often led to many deaths but the resurrection of the god Osiris, worshipers were assured that they too would resurrect.