E.A. Wallis Budge says that resurrection was the "central hope" of Osiran religion.
E.A. Wallis Budge, Osiris and the Egyptian Resurrection, vol. 1 (London: Phillip Lee Warner, 1911), vii
The central figure of the ancient Egyptian Religion was Osiris, and the chief fundamentals of his cult were the belief in his divinity, death, resurrection, and absolute control of the destinies of the bodies and souls of men. The central point of each Osiran's Religion was his hope of resurrection in a transformed body and of immortality, which could only be realized by him through the death and resurrection of Osiris.