Which god murdered Osiris?

The story behind the answer

Set murdered Osiris. In the famous myth, Set, Osiris’s jealous brother and god of chaos and the desert, tricks Osiris into a fitted chest, seals it, and later dismembers his body. Isis and Nephthys recover the pieces; Anubis embalms Osiris, and he becomes lord of the underworld. Horus, Osiris’s son, later battles Set to avenge his father and restore cosmic order.

To remember: Set “sets” the plot in motion and “upsets” order. Contrast the options: Horus is the avenger, Anubis oversees mummification and funerary rites, and Ra is the sun god. Set’s role as chaos makes him the natural murderer in Egypt’s central tale of death and rebirth.