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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...
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...
Hathor was also closely associated with the concept of the divine feminine and was seen as a symbol of femininity and the female body in ancient Egypt. She was revered as a mother goddess and a protector of the pharaoh and the Egyptian people and was thought to embody the nurturing and car...
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...
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...
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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...
"[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...
Many nations, of course, have deities of love, marriage or at least of fertility. Among the better known are Ishtar of Babylonia-Assyria, Isis of Egypt and Aphrodite and Eros of Greek mythology, whom the Romans equated with Venera and Cupid (Amor), and Freyja, t...