Every episode is researched before a word is written. These are the companion notes: what the sources actually say, where scholars genuinely disagree, and the claims we caught and corrected in our own scripts before recording.
He was the sole lord of the dead, and then Osiris took the title. On the black that is not fur, the jackal that may not be a jackal, and a parentage that changes by era.
Egypt never wrote the story out in full. The version everyone knows comes from a Greek writer roughly 2,400 years later, and scholars question how Egyptian it really is.
The forty-two assessors are not in the painting everyone pictures. Our first script put them there, over a plate where you can count the figures on screen.
The peer-reviewed entry devoted to this myth never names her once. It calls her Hathor. We verified that by scanning the full text, and it caught us overstating.
Our draft said Egypt had no group of twelve. A peer-reviewed entry refuted it: twelve primordial gods stand on a wall at Karnak. Just not the twelve you were handed.
Son of Osiris, or brother of Osiris? Egypt wrote down both and the standard reference refuses to pick. He is also not the god of war, and that mistake has a named cause.
Seventy-five names on one tomb wall, a holy city the earliest evidence gives to another god, and a sun drawn as a wrapped corpse. Also the correction almost every retelling needs: it is Hathor he sends, not Sekhmet.
Egypt's god of chaos spent every night in the bow of the sun boat, fighting the serpent. He was not the villain until about two thousand years after he was the hero.
Notes are published once their episode is public, so nothing here spoils an unreleased film. If you find an error, leave a comment on the episode it concerns; substantiated corrections are pinned there and fixed here.