In Shaktism (a form of Hinduism), the dismemberment of Sati is somewhat similar to that of Osiris, except that Sati kills herself through immolation, and afterwards Vishnu dismembers the body (I guess she doesn't burn completely) and scatters her remains throughout India, but then she never gets put back together. Instead she gets "remembered" in the traditional sense, as each of her body parts becomes a pilgrimage site known as a Pitha, not to be confused with a type of rice cake eaten throughout India. Wikipedia, take note, for you need a disambiguation page for this term. In another version of the story, Sati kills herself in an unspecified way, whereupon Shiva hoists her body onto his shoulder and begins a dance which puts the universe in danger; "the gods," alarmed at this, then cause Sati's body to disintegrate, and the pieces fall all over the country. Abu al-Fazi ibn Mubarak, by contrast, states that Mahamaya (another name for Sati) cut HERSELF into pieces, while on the same page in a footnote he claims that according to one Professor Cowell it was indeed Vishnu who did the honors, with his discus, "bit by bit." I'm going to go with Professor Cowell on this one, given that Sati, so far as I can tell, has only two hands, unlike various other Hindu deities, making the ability to cut herself to pieces more difficult than it otherwise need be, and necessitating that the arm attached to the slaying hand be the last body part to go, perhaps at the shoulder joint, from the perspective of physics; but perhaps I presume too much in assuming that it is one of her hands that holds something sharp enough with which to cut herself. For those who believe that the number of severed body parts is 51, there is a handy list of which body part corresponds with which Pitha, and I note that the right hand and right wrist both appear therein, as well as the left arm; but there is no left hand or left wrist, leading to the conclusion that Sati could indeed had dismembered herself, but that she must have been left-handed to do so, and furthermore that her combined left-wrist-left-hand-stump never made it back to earth. Sati was eventually reborn as Parvati, through reincarnation (not resurrection); her name ( the Sanskrit सती ) is the origin of the word suttee, at least according to Augusta Klein.