Whether I live or die I am Osiris.
I enter in and reappear through you,
I decay in you, I grow in you.
The gods are living in me
For I live and grow in the corn
That sustains the honoured ones.
Whether I live or die I am barley,
I am not destroyed.
I have entered in the cycle.
I emerge in the cycle.

— Egyptian Coffin Texts, Spell 330 (adapted)