Heart — Busiris

Ib and the birthplace tradition

The anatomical identity is the heart (ib), placed in the cardiac region as the centre of Osirian personhood and renewed life. Busiris is the relic-site claim rendered here because Plutarch preserves a tradition locating Osiris's body there; the heart-to-Busiris pairing is an editorial correspondence rather than a stated ancient anatomical assignment.

Head — Abydos / MemphisRight eye — HeliopolisLeft eye — LetopolisMouth and tongue — White Wall (Memphis)Neck — Diospolis ParvaHeart — BusirisHeart — BusirisRight hand — Athribite nomeLeft hand — SaisLiver — Heracleopolis (Naref)Spleen — Hermopolis ParvaBackbone — White Wall / RosetauRight leg and foot — Letopolis nomeLeft leg and foot — AbydosPhallus — Mendes

Point 6 of 14 in Osiris — the fourteen scattered parts

Cross-tradition overlaps

No overlapping points are registered for this point.

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Sources

Plutarch, De Iside et Osiride §21 (secondary_translation)

Plutarch reports Eudoxus's claim that Osiris's body lies at Busiris, his birthplace.

Coffin Texts (primary_canonical)

Osirian funerary identity treats the heart and bodily integrity as central to continued life; it does not identify Busiris as a heart relic site.

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