From my diary : The Source of Isis

 

 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.

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 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.
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She is often rendered on the foot of coffins with long wing spread to protect the deceased.

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.

 

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".

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.

From my diary : Pharaoh divine incarnation

             

 The Egyptian pharaon the " Son of Re". 

    "Born as Horus living in the horizon sits on the 

          throne of Horus of the living ". 
( Pyramid Text )

The word pharaon is derived from the
 words " per aa " meaning 'great house '.The pharaoh was seen as a divine incarnation.He was son of Ra , the son god and would ultimately rejoin his divine parent in the sky.His role on earth was to intercede on behalf of the country with his god. Pharaoh life was encased in a set of ritual practices and religious ceremonies.
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The pharaoh was a high priest above all others and all strands of Egyptian life ultimately came together in the person of tne king.He also had a decisive secular role in his person the divine and the mortal came together.

 

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   Ideology of royal power  

 

Horus initially  the dominant  falcon god gliding across the distant sky is ever more identified as the son of Osiris

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Isis

   

      Pharaoh Scorpion

Narmer's Tablet

In the Predinastic period the first known to us  pharaoh called Scorpion and Narmer (Menes) were closely  linked to  Horus.Lived in 3000 B.C.The strenght of the belief that pharaoh united and so recreated the kingdom is shown on the Narmer's Tablet.
 

The symbiosis of king and falcon sculpturally introduced in the images of Khafre.The most impresive representations of a tutelary god.


Horus as falcon spreading his wings around the head of the king protecting him.The pharaoh is personifications of the gods themselves.

                                  Royal titulary

          Pharaoh chooses a set names on his accession to the throne. 

• The Horus name.It present the pharaoh as the incarnation of the falcon god Horus.
• The Nebti name.It places pharaoh under the protection of the two tutelary goddesses of Egypt Nekhbet the vulture goddess of Upper Egypt and Wadjit the cobra goddess of Lower Egypt.
• The Golden Horus name.Introduced Horus sitting on the sign for gold,nub this name reaffirms the unchangeable divine and sublime nature of the body of Horus.Pharaoh is the living incarnation of the Horus.