Isis is one of the earliest and most
important goddess in ancient Egypt. She was regarded as the feminine
counterpart to Osiris, a role she probably occupied before the dawn of
dynastic Egypt.She is the daughter of Geb the earth and Nut the sky,wife and sister of
god Osiris.
No other Egyptian deity has stood the test of time as
well as Isis.Together with Thoth, she taught mankind the secrets of
medicine. She was the embalmer and gaurdian of Osiris.
Isis is portrayed as a woman with a throne on her head which is a hieroglyphic sign used to write her name.Over the centuries she has assumed the many feminine goddesses.
Isis carries a many attributes and their iconography belonging to Hathor,Neith,Satis,Sakhmet,Opet,Serket or Renenutet.http://www.flickr.com/photos/nennass1/8442466416/in/set-72157632013662376/
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rendered on the foot of coffins with long wing spread to protect the
deceased. |
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Isis is universal goddess with many roles,who acts in all circumstances in the world of the living as well as in the other world.
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| The egyptian Isis is protector of children and woman ,great magician, protector of the mymmy  of the deceased.
She is a mother of sun god Horus.
She was worshipped above all in Philae.As a god's mother, divine adoratrice,lady of the sky, the her cult together with Osiris spread the furthest in the late period.
Powerful Tutelary
Isis belonged to the Heliopolitan ennead she is guardian and magician.Powerful tutelary " great in magic" and " mother goddess".
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In the legend of Osiris,Isis are the main actors in which concerns Seth murder of Osiris.Isis with her sister Nephthys to look for all the disembered pieces that have been strewn across Egypt. She ask god Anubis to help her to create the Osiris and in same time she made the first mummy.
Under the Ptolemaic and Roman dynasties Isis became the universal goddess and her cult spread far beyond Egypt's.
In Roman Empire she lasted for an extraordinarily long time.Isis temple in Philae is shut in 551 under the regin of Emperor Justinian.It is very difficult to describe the personality of Isis who appears in a great many myths.She is protector of life in the other world and she protects the royal function and ensures the balance of the Universe.
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