venicebard
(I have to say this)
Upon reading a bit of that thread isthmus nekoi linked (whose first post is thought-provoking), I realized the origin of the version where Osiris's member is fish-devoured: it refers to the moving of nun, originally pisces (the little fishies), to scorpio when the simples were re-arranged in constructing the alef-bet order. If one could date this version of the myth, therefore, one could get a handle on the exact era of the change! (I'm off to investigate)
Upon reading a bit of that thread isthmus nekoi linked (whose first post is thought-provoking), I realized the origin of the version where Osiris's member is fish-devoured: it refers to the moving of nun, originally pisces (the little fishies), to scorpio when the simples were re-arranged in constructing the alef-bet order. If one could date this version of the myth, therefore, one could get a handle on the exact era of the change! (I'm off to investigate)