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Plutarch also states that Set steals and dismembers the corpse only after Isis has retrieved it.

Isis then finds and buries each piece of her husband's body, with the exception of the penis, which she has to reconstruct with magic, because the original was eaten by fish in the river.

According to Plutarch, this is the reason the Egyptians had a taboo against eating fish.

In Egyptian accounts, however, the penis of Osiris is found intact, and the only close parallel with this part of Plutarch's story is in " The Tale of Two Brothers ", a folk tale from the New Kingdom with similarities to the Osiris myth.