Osiris Reconsidered — The Black God as Shadow Authority

In many modern esoteric circles, Osiris is praised as a god of rebirth, fertility, and sacred mystery. Yet in the work of J. Daniel Gunther, Osiris occupies a far more sobering role.

Osiris is not the Absolute.
Osiris is not the Source.

Osiris is what Gunther calls a Black God—not meaning racial, fertile, or primordial, but derivative.

In this system, blackness signifies absence of original light. Osiris governs death, judgment, and post-mortem order, which immediately places him inside the cosmic system rather than beyond it.

Osiris rules because beings die.
He judges because souls are bound to form.
He reigns because separation already exists.

That alone disqualifies him from ultimacy.

A true God does not require death to demonstrate authority. Osiris does.

Thus, Osiris is a shadow cast by the Real God, not the origin of light itself.