Another Egyptian descent story is that of Setne and his son, Si-Osire.
In this story, an Egyptian is allowed to return to the land of the living to
deal with a Nubian magician who has been overpowering Egypt’s magicians. This
emissary is reincarnated as Si-Osire, the child of Setne and his wife. At a
funeral for a rich man and a pauper, Si-Osire hears his father express his
longing that he might have the fate of the rich man. He subsequently takes his
father on a tour of the Underworld that highlights the fate of three classes of
the dead: those whose good deeds outnumber their bad ones, like the pauper;
those whose bad deeds dominate, like the rich man; and those whose good and bad
deeds essentially balance out. The tour shows the rich man degraded and the
pauper elevated to sit beside Osiris (compare Luke 16:19–31). When Si-Osire
grows up, he vanquishes the Nubian magician and returns to the Underworld.
(Dale A. Brueggemann, “Descent into the Underworld, Critical Issues,” in The
Lexham Bible Dictionary, ed. John D. Barry et al. [Bellingham, Wash.:
Lexham Press, 2016], Logos Bible Software edition)
