Abydos acquired holiness for choosing its cemetery as a burial place for the rulers of the pre-dynastic period and the archaic period . The First Intermediate Period brought about great changes. The popularity of Osiris, the god of the afterlife, increased, and he became the god of Abydos. Individuals, especially in the Twelfth Dynasty, erected stelae in the region of the terrace of the great god in Abydos. They contained inscriptions of the owner and his family, biography, offerings, gods, especially Osiris. The stelae registered the wishes and petitions of the deceased he wished for in the afterlife. He wished to be a follower of Osiris, to be welcomed by the greats of Abydos, to be transfigured as Akh , to receive offerings, to take part in the procession of the "Neshmet boat", and to take part in ceremonies and festivals. The wishes reached twenty wishes in some of the stelae. While some stelae were limited to the minimum required. the wishes was called the Abydos Formula. The Abydos formula is considered a stage in the development of religious thought, It had its cultural and religious connotations and characteristics .