Detail. Tutankhamun, dressed in a short skirt and nemes headdress, embraces the god Osiris who welcomes him into the afterlife. The king is followed by his ka, who on his head, above his long tripartite wig, bears the hieroglyphic sign 'ka', consisting of two raised arms. The god Osiris, with multiple epithets, was an ancient deified deceased ruler. God of the dead, lord of Busiris and Abydos, Osiris expressed all the cyclical forces of man, society, the earthly world and the entire cosmos.