Goddess Isis
The goddess Isis is the Mother of Horus, sister, and wife of Osiris; symbolically mother of the king and guardian of the dead, and She was represented as a human female or as a tree goddess.
This Goddess was first mentioned in the old kingdom period (2686 – c. 2181 BCE ) as one of the main characters of Osiris’s myth in which she restores her slain brother and husband.
Goddess Isis is The divine Osiris, producing and protecting his heir, Horus.
She was believed to help the dead enter immortality as she had helped Osiris, and she was considered the divine mother of the Pharaoh, who was likened to Horus.
She was usually portrayed in art as a human woman wearing a throne-like on her head.
In the first millennium BCE, the gods Osiris and goddess Isis became the most widely honored
Egyptian deities and goddess Isis absorbed characteristics from many other goddesses.
Isis is treated as the mother of Horus even in the earliest copies of the Pyramid Texts.
She helped to restore the souls of deceased humans to wholeness as she had done for Osiris, But for much of Egyptian history, male deities such as Osiris.
They were believed to supply regenerative forces, including sexual strength, that was vital for rebirth.
Rulers in Egypt and its neighbor to the south Nubia built temples dedicated primarily to her, and her temple at Philae was a religious center for Egyptians and Nubians alike.
The role of Goddess Isis
The goddess Isis was thought to simply assist by producing this power.
various Ptolemaic funerary texts emphasize that Isis took an active role in Horus’s conception by sexually stimulating her inert husband.
Some tombs decorations from the Roman era depict Isis in a major role in the afterlife.
Goddess Isis was the patroness of magical powers The feminine holy powers became more influential in immortality thoughts.
In the late New Kingdom, Assorted Ptolemaic funerary texts emphasize that she assumed an active role in Horus’s conception by sexually stimulating her inert husband.
The funerary text from that era suggests that women were thought able to join the retinue of goddess Isis and Nephthys in the afterlife.
Isis is treated as the mother of Horus even in the earliest copies of the Pyramid Texts.
Yet there are signs that Hathor was originally regarded as his mother, and other habits make an elder form of Horus the son of Nut and a sibling of Isis and Osiris.
In the developed form of the myth, Isis gives birth to Horus, after a long pregnancy and a difficult labor, in the papyrus thickets of the Nile Delta.
As in Egypt, the goddess Isis was said to have power over fate, which in traditional Greek religion was a power, not even the gods could defy.
Valentino Gasparini says this control over the future binds together Isis’s disparate traits.
She handles the cosmos, yet she also relieves people of their comparatively trivial misfortunes, and her power rises into the empire of death, which is “individual and universal at the same time”.
Egyptian magic began to incorporate Christian concepts as Christianity was appointed in Egypt, but Egyptian and Greek deities continued to appear in spells long after their temple worship had ceased.
As her child grows she must protect him from Set and many other hazards—snakes, scorpions, and simple illness.
Spells that may date to the 6th, 7th, or 18th centuries CE invoke the name of Isis alongside Christian figures
Isis may only have come to be Horus’s mother as the Osiris myth took shape during the Old Kingdom.
But through her relationship with him, she came to be seen as the epitome of maternal devotion.
