Mother: Nut, god of the sky Brother/Husband: Osiris, god of the dead and resurrection Brother: Set, god of evil and darkness Sister: Nepthys, goddess of darkness, decay and death Brother/Son: Horus, sky god, god of kingship Nephew/Son:Anubis, god of embalming. Anubis was the son of ...
She obtained immortality by tricking Ra, the Sun God. When Ra was an old man, Isis fashioned a snake from earth that Ra had spat upon. She placed it in his path so that it bit him, then offered to save him with her magical arts, but only if he told her his true name (see ...
Isis, through courageous cunning, became the most powerful of the gods and goddesses in the ancient world by tricking Ra, the God of the Sun, who originally had the greatest power. Ra was uncaring and could be brutal, and the people of the world suffered greatly during his reign. The...
Twitter Google Share on Facebook Isis Thesaurus Financial Acronyms Encyclopedia Wikipedia Related to Isis:Levant I·sis (ī′sĭs) n.Mythology An ancient Egyptian goddess of fertility and magic who was the sister and wife of Osiris. [LatinĪsis, from Greek, from Egyptian'st.] ...
She was the queen of Egypt and ruled with her husband and brother Osiris. She and Osiris were both Egyptian deities belonging to the Ennead of Heliopolis, the first nine descendants of the creator god Ra. Isis represented every positive feminine quality to ancient believers. They viewed her as...
Break out, scorpions! Leave Re! Eye of Horus, leave the god! Flame of the mouth – I am the one who made you, I am The one who sent you – come to the earth, powerful poison! See, the great god has given his name away. Re shall live, Once the poison has died ...
A new paradigm emerged in which Osiris ruled the underworld, Horus ruled Egypt (and the Pharaohs were considered the incarnation of Horus) and Ra the sun god ruled the heavens. But Isis as mistress of magic resurrected Osiris, and thus was superior to him. She conceived her son Horus magica...
The great mother goddess of ancient Egypt, Isis was the sister and wife of the god Osiris*. Together these two deities played a major role in many stories in Egyptian mythology, particularly in myths about rebirth and resurrection. The cult of Isis became very popular in Egypt and ...
I first met Isis, the Egyptian Goddess, at East Preston Junior School. I was seven and we were learning about Ancient Egyptians. One of our tasks was to draw a God or Goddess. We had to find a picture and copy it. I love to draw so this was something I enjoyed and after perusing...
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