I always wondered what was the intended carry-away when Isis supposedly got him all back together except for 'little Osiris.' Did the priests of the religion deem sex to be beneath the gods? Was it that Isis saw her chance to make him over and just didn't try too hard to find the royal unit? Did she think if he was a god he could grow a new and better obelisk?

I think that myth likes its Gods castrated, figuratively or literally. I like the way Anne Rice drew the connections between her vampires and the ancient Egyptian gods...