Isis, one of the most important deities of the Egyptian pantheon, Isis was the wife and sister of Osirus and the mother of Horus. She was the patron of magic, learning, love, and motherhood; she was the power of the Pharoahs and usually portrayed as a throne or wearing a throne on her head. She is also the goddess of day, a counterpart to her sister Nephthys, or night.
The city of Paris (Per-Ise) is named for her.
Alternate Spellings:Yse, Aset, Auset, Ast
2006-09-22 01:46:34
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answered by Anonymous
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Isis is a goddess in Egyptian mythology. She was most prominent mythologically as the wife of Osiris and mother of Horus, and was worshipped as the archetypical wife and mother.
Her name literally means (female) of throne, i.e. Queen of the throne, which was portrayed by the emblem worn on her head, that of a throne. However, the hieroglyph for her name used originally meant (female) of flesh, i.e. mortal, and she may simply have represented deified, historical queens.
Her origins are uncertain but are believed to have come from the Nile Delta; however, unlike other Egyptian deities, she did not have a centralised cult at any point throughout her worship. First mentions of Isis date back to the Fifth dynasty of Egypt which is when the first literary inscriptions are found, but her cult became prominent late in Egyptian history, when it began to absorb the cults of many other goddesses. It eventually spread outside Egypt throughout the Middle East and Europe, with temples dedicated to her built as far away as the British Isles. Pockets of her worship remained in Christian Europe as late as the 6th centur
2006-09-22 00:52:22
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answered by brinlarrr 5
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Isis was an Egyptian Goddess that was a part of a trinity.
There were triads of deities and even triple triads, or "enneads." One of the popular triads consisted of Osiris, his consort Isis, and their son Horus.
The mythological accounts portray the Egyptian deities as having human weaknesses and imperfections. They were said to have experienced anguish and fright and repeatedly found themselves in peril. The god Osiris was slain. Horus, in childhood, was said to have suffered from internal pains, headaches, and dysentery and to have died from a scorpion's sting, but then was said to have been restored to life. Isis was believed to have suffered from abscess of the breast. With advancing years, it was taught, the strength of the sun-god Ra waned and saliva dripped from his mouth. His very life was in jeopardy after being bitten by a magical serpent formed by Isis, although he recovered as a result of Isis' words of magic
2006-09-22 00:51:15
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answered by rangedog 7
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The Goddess Isis was a real person. She wasn't born a Goddess. She was a great, powerful, enlightened woman who was deified as a goddess after her death. A great world religion was founded on her works and teachings. This website is dedicated to restoring Isis to her rightful place in history and in the living memory of humankind.
Isis is Eve. The original Isis was born a natural genius. She was "twice wise." She was born about 6000 years ago in that area of Africa which later became Ethiopia. She was born amongst a race of Homo sapiens who had a flat forehead and one eyebrow without the gap at the middle. Isis had a high rounded forehead and a parted eyebrow. She was a mutant. She was the first of her kind. She was the first "twice wise" Homo sapien sapien with two eyebrows. She is the ancestral mother of the present species of Homo sapiens sapiens, twice-wise humans with two eyebrows.
The words Genesis, genius, and genus, are all derived from genes-of-Isis. The Genesis of Isis went everywhere. Her twice-wise genus has since become the genotype of all humankind.
The throne atop her head and the babe at her breast identify Isis as the founding mother of the Egyptian kingdom, religion, and civilization. Her bloodline founded Egypt and other great civilizations. The Genesis of Isis went everywhere. She is the founding mother of all that is human civilization of this day.
The Goddess Isis, was a deified ancestress who was deified for good reason. Isis was a brilliant, powerful and enlightened being like a Buddha, a Moses, or Jesus. A great world religion was founded upon her teachings and her deeds. Her religion was annihilated and her followers were brutally suppressed, partly because she was a woman, but mostly for political reasons.
Monotheists were engaged in a political power struggle to gain control of the Roman Empire. The patrician "fathers" of Rome were Pagans of the Isis bloodline. That made them "descendants of the gods." Their descent from the gods gave them hereditary control of the empire. Their Isis bloodline was the source of their legitimacy as hereditary rulers. The monotheists who were not descendants of the gods, who were not "patricians" of the Isis bloodline, had no legitimate claims to political power. The monotheists had powerful motives to eliminate the Isis bloodline as the only path to political power in Rome.
Those Roman patricians of the Isis bloodline were some of the original "highbrows." They had the high foreheads and parted eyebrows that set them as a race apart from, and above, the people they governed. They were alarmed because the Temple of Isis was spreading the Genesis of Isis to the lower classes. The patrician fathers couldn't bear the thought of commoners and slaves being of the same bloodline as themselves. Pagan Roman royalty had little interest in protecting the Temple of Isis from the monotheists. It served their interests to see the Temple destroyed.
The monotheist conquest of Rome was a long and brutal revolution. The Temple of Isis was trying to breed the masses up out of their ignorance and misery. In so doing, the goddess of love placed herself in the middle of a war in which both sides had an interest in her destruction. Before Rome fell to the monotheists, Pagan emperors paid lip-service to protecting the Temple of Isis, but they did nothing. They let the Temple fall to the monotheists. All that is left of Isis' religion today is submerged in Christianity.
Her life and her works have been grossly misrepresented and distorted in history. She has been unjustly exiled into the darknes of ignorance and "mythology." She is sadly unknown and underappreciated by us all.
Today, we are all wearing the mark of Isis in the middle of our foreheads. Isis is the EarthMother Goddess. She is the ancestral mother of all people who have two eyebrows. The Genesis of Isis' genius has already reached all of humankind. We are all Homo sapiens sapiens, "twice wise" humans. Children of Isis, now includes everyone on earth. We are a WorldFamily of EarthMother's chidren. Once we recognize who and what she was, and realize who and what we are, we will be able to lay aside our family squabbles. We will be able to build a WorldCulture civilization that leaves out no part of humanity.
this link is apic of isis:
http://www.newton.mec.edu/Bigelow/classroom/walker/egypt/14egyptwebgmhjpsak4/isis.jpg
2006-09-22 01:33:09
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answered by ? 2
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An Egyptian Goddess.
2006-09-22 00:52:45
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answered by Marvin R 7
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see below...
2006-09-22 00:51:38
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answered by St♥rmy Skye 6
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