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Isis was the ancient Egyptian goddess ofmarriage, fertility, motherhood, magic and medicine. Many myths and legends exist about Isis in Egypt and Egyptian literature uses several names and titles for this goddess. Worship of Isis, her temples and her cult spread through Egypt and parts of Europe...
However, after realizing the extent of the destruction she had caused, Hathor relented and returned to Ra, who reconciled with the people of Egypt. Other versions of her origins myth state that Hathor was born from the union of Ra and the sky goddess Nut. In these versions of the myth, ...
Isis was the Goddess of the Earth in ancient Egypt and loved her brother Osiris. When they married, Osiris became the first King of Earth. Their brother Set, immensely jealous of their powers, murdered Osiris so he could usurp the throne. Osiris’ Death Set tricked Osiris into steppi...
Yet, he found solace in the symbolic importance of the saying,“Water brings fertility to the land”. The representation of water on the fertility wheel aligns precisely with the celebration of the annual flooding of the Nile in Egypt on August 15th. Thus, the concept of the “Fertility Whee...
A “sacred marriage” between the god, represented by the king, and the goddess, represented by a hierodule, also was believed to promote the fertility of the land. The sacred prostitution of Astarte and of Aphrodite also was directed to this end. In Egypt Osiris was killed by his brother...
In most of the ancient world, kourotrophic iconography was relatively rare in comparison to other images of women and served a number of different symbolic functions, ranging from honoring the king of Egypt to adding strength to magical spells to depicting scenes of daily life. This work ...
"[A description of an ancient Greek statue :] On a Satyros (Satyr). There was a certain cave near Thebes in Egypt which resembled a shepherd's pipe, since as it followed its winding course in the depths of the earth it formed a natural spiral; for it did not take a straight course...
The Chachapoyan Fertility Idol, also known as the Idol of the Chachapoyan Warriors (shortened to Idol of the Warriors), Golden Idol,[4] or the misnomer Idol of the Incas, was a six-inch tall, solid gold representation of the Chachapoyan goddess of fertility known to the Inca as Pacham...
Water puzzled me until I read about Egypt’s annual Nile flood, celebrated in August. Water brings fertility to the land, just as Inanna brings fertility to all life. Suddenly, it all clicked: the zodiac wasn’t just a set of symbols—it was a fertility wheel, an agricultural calendar, ...