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class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Mother_goddess"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">1.2.2</span> <span>Mother goddess</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Mother_goddess-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Goddess_of_kingship_and_protection_of_the_kingdom" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Goddess_of_kingship_and_protection_of_the_kingdom"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">1.2.3</span> <span>Goddess of kingship and protection of the kingdom</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Goddess_of_kingship_and_protection_of_the_kingdom-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Goddess_of_magic_and_wisdom" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Goddess_of_magic_and_wisdom"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">1.2.4</span> <span>Goddess of magic and wisdom</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Goddess_of_magic_and_wisdom-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Sky_goddess" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Sky_goddess"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">1.2.5</span> <span>Sky goddess</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Sky_goddess-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Universal_goddess" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Universal_goddess"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">1.2.6</span> <span>Universal goddess</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Universal_goddess-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Iconography" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Iconography"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">1.3</span> <span>Iconography</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Iconography-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Worship" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Worship"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">1.4</span> <span>Worship</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Worship-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Relationship_with_royalty" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Relationship_with_royalty"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">1.4.1</span> <span>Relationship with royalty</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Relationship_with_royalty-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Temples_and_festivals" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Temples_and_festivals"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">1.4.2</span> <span>Temples and festivals</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Temples_and_festivals-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Funerary" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Funerary"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">1.4.3</span> <span>Funerary</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Funerary-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Popular_worship" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Popular_worship"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">1.4.4</span> <span>Popular worship</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Popular_worship-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-In_the_Greco-Roman_world" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#In_the_Greco-Roman_world"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">2</span> <span>In the Greco-Roman world</span> </div> </a> <button aria-controls="toc-In_the_Greco-Roman_world-sublist" 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href="#Relationships_with_other_deities"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">2.3</span> <span>Relationships with other deities</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Relationships_with_other_deities-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Iconography_2" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Iconography_2"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">2.4</span> <span>Iconography</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Iconography_2-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Worship_2" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Worship_2"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">2.5</span> <span>Worship</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Worship_2-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Adherents_and_priests" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Adherents_and_priests"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">2.5.1</span> <span>Adherents and priests</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Adherents_and_priests-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Temples_and_daily_rites" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Temples_and_daily_rites"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">2.5.2</span> <span>Temples and daily rites</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Temples_and_daily_rites-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Personal_worship" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Personal_worship"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">2.5.3</span> <span>Personal worship</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Personal_worship-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Initiation" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Initiation"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">2.5.4</span> <span>Initiation</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Initiation-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Festivals" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Festivals"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">2.5.5</span> <span>Festivals</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Festivals-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Possible_influence_on_Christianity" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Possible_influence_on_Christianity"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">3</span> <span>Possible influence on Christianity</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Possible_influence_on_Christianity-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Influence_in_later_cultures" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" 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<span>References</span> </div> </a> <button aria-controls="toc-References-sublist" class="cdx-button cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only vector-toc-toggle"> <span class="vector-icon mw-ui-icon-wikimedia-expand"></span> <span>Toggle References subsection</span> </button> <ul id="toc-References-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Citations" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Citations"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">7.1</span> <span>Citations</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Citations-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Works_cited" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Works_cited"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">7.2</span> <span>Works cited</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Works_cited-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Further_reading" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Further_reading"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">8</span> <span>Further reading</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Further_reading-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-External_links" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#External_links"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> <span class="vector-toc-numb">9</span> <span>External links</span> </div> </a> <ul id="toc-External_links-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </div> </div> </nav> </div> </div> <div class="mw-content-container"> <main id="content" class="mw-body"> <header class="mw-body-header vector-page-titlebar"> <nav aria-label="Contents" class="vector-toc-landmark"> <div id="vector-page-titlebar-toc" class="vector-dropdown vector-page-titlebar-toc vector-button-flush-left" > <input type="checkbox" id="vector-page-titlebar-toc-checkbox" role="button" aria-haspopup="true" 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Alemannic" lang="gsw" hreflang="gsw" data-title="Isis" data-language-autonym="Alemannisch" data-language-local-name="Alemannic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Alemannisch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ar badge-Q17437796 badge-featuredarticle mw-list-item" title="featured article badge"><a href="https://ar.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A5%D9%8A%D8%B2%D9%8A%D8%B3" title="إيزيس – Arabic" lang="ar" hreflang="ar" data-title="إيزيس" data-language-autonym="العربية" data-language-local-name="Arabic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>العربية</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hyw mw-list-item"><a href="https://hyw.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D4%BB%D5%BD%D5%AB%D5%BD" title="Իսիս – Western Armenian" lang="hyw" hreflang="hyw" data-title="Իսիս" data-language-autonym="Արեւմտահայերէն" data-language-local-name="Western Armenian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Արեւմտահայերէն</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-as mw-list-item"><a href="https://as.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%86%E0%A6%87%E0%A6%9A%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%9B" title="আইচিছ – Assamese" lang="as" hreflang="as" data-title="আইচিছ" data-language-autonym="অসমীয়া" data-language-local-name="Assamese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>অসমীয়া</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ast mw-list-item"><a href="https://ast.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isis" title="Isis – Asturian" lang="ast" hreflang="ast" data-title="Isis" data-language-autonym="Asturianu" data-language-local-name="Asturian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Asturianu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-az mw-list-item"><a href="https://az.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C4%B0sida" title="İsida – Azerbaijani" lang="az" hreflang="az" data-title="İsida" data-language-autonym="Azərbaycanca" data-language-local-name="Azerbaijani" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Azərbaycanca</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bn mw-list-item"><a href="https://bn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A6%86%E0%A6%87%E0%A6%B8%E0%A6%BF%E0%A6%B8" title="আইসিস – Bangla" lang="bn" hreflang="bn" data-title="আইসিস" data-language-autonym="বাংলা" data-language-local-name="Bangla" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>বাংলা</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-be mw-list-item"><a href="https://be.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%86%D1%81%D1%96%D0%B4%D0%B0" title="Ісіда – Belarusian" lang="be" hreflang="be" data-title="Ісіда" data-language-autonym="Беларуская" data-language-local-name="Belarusian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Беларуская</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bg mw-list-item"><a href="https://bg.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%98%D0%B7%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B0" title="Изида – Bulgarian" lang="bg" hreflang="bg" data-title="Изида" data-language-autonym="Български" data-language-local-name="Bulgarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Български</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bo mw-list-item"><a href="https://bo.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%BD%91%E0%BD%96%E0%BE%B1%E0%BD%B2%E0%BC%8B%E0%BD%9E%E0%BD%B2%E0%BC%8B%E0%BD%A6%E0%BD%B2%E0%BC%8D" title="དབྱི་ཞི་སི། – Tibetan" lang="bo" hreflang="bo" data-title="དབྱི་ཞི་སི།" data-language-autonym="བོད་ཡིག" data-language-local-name="Tibetan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>བོད་ཡིག</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bs mw-list-item"><a href="https://bs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Izida" title="Izida – Bosnian" lang="bs" hreflang="bs" data-title="Izida" data-language-autonym="Bosanski" data-language-local-name="Bosnian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bosanski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-br mw-list-item"><a href="https://br.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isis" title="Isis – Breton" lang="br" hreflang="br" data-title="Isis" data-language-autonym="Brezhoneg" data-language-local-name="Breton" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Brezhoneg</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ca mw-list-item"><a href="https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isis" title="Isis – Catalan" lang="ca" hreflang="ca" data-title="Isis" data-language-autonym="Català" data-language-local-name="Catalan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Català</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cv mw-list-item"><a href="https://cv.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%98%D1%81%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B0" title="Исида – Chuvash" lang="cv" hreflang="cv" data-title="Исида" data-language-autonym="Чӑвашла" data-language-local-name="Chuvash" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Чӑвашла</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cs mw-list-item"><a href="https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eset" title="Eset – Czech" lang="cs" hreflang="cs" data-title="Eset" data-language-autonym="Čeština" data-language-local-name="Czech" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Čeština</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cy mw-list-item"><a href="https://cy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isis" title="Isis – Welsh" lang="cy" hreflang="cy" data-title="Isis" data-language-autonym="Cymraeg" data-language-local-name="Welsh" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Cymraeg</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-da mw-list-item"><a href="https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isis" title="Isis – Danish" lang="da" hreflang="da" data-title="Isis" data-language-autonym="Dansk" data-language-local-name="Danish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Dansk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-de mw-list-item"><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isis" title="Isis – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="Isis" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Deutsch</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-et mw-list-item"><a href="https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isis" title="Isis – Estonian" lang="et" hreflang="et" data-title="Isis" data-language-autonym="Eesti" data-language-local-name="Estonian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Eesti</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-el mw-list-item"><a href="https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%8A%CF%83%CE%B9%CF%82" title="Ίσις – Greek" lang="el" hreflang="el" data-title="Ίσις" data-language-autonym="Ελληνικά" data-language-local-name="Greek" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Ελληνικά</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es badge-Q17437798 badge-goodarticle mw-list-item" title="good article badge"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isis" title="Isis – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="Isis" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Español</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eo mw-list-item"><a href="https://eo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iziso" title="Iziso – Esperanto" lang="eo" hreflang="eo" data-title="Iziso" data-language-autonym="Esperanto" data-language-local-name="Esperanto" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Esperanto</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eu mw-list-item"><a href="https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isis" title="Isis – Basque" lang="eu" hreflang="eu" data-title="Isis" data-language-autonym="Euskara" data-language-local-name="Basque" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Euskara</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fa mw-list-item"><a href="https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%DB%8C%D8%B2%DB%8C%D8%B3" title="ایزیس – Persian" lang="fa" hreflang="fa" data-title="ایزیس" data-language-autonym="فارسی" data-language-local-name="Persian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>فارسی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr badge-Q17437796 badge-featuredarticle mw-list-item" title="featured article badge"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isis" title="Isis – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="Isis" data-language-autonym="Français" data-language-local-name="French" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Français</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fy mw-list-item"><a href="https://fy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isis" title="Isis – Western Frisian" lang="fy" hreflang="fy" data-title="Isis" data-language-autonym="Frysk" data-language-local-name="Western Frisian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Frysk</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ga mw-list-item"><a href="https://ga.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%8Dsis_(miotaseola%C3%ADocht_na_h%C3%89igipte)" title="Ísis (miotaseolaíocht na hÉigipte) – Irish" lang="ga" hreflang="ga" data-title="Ísis (miotaseolaíocht na hÉigipte)" data-language-autonym="Gaeilge" data-language-local-name="Irish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Gaeilge</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gl mw-list-item"><a href="https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isis" title="Isis – Galician" lang="gl" hreflang="gl" data-title="Isis" data-language-autonym="Galego" data-language-local-name="Galician" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Galego</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gu mw-list-item"><a href="https://gu.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%AA%86%E0%AA%88%E0%AA%9D%E0%AA%BF%E0%AA%B8" title="આઈઝિસ – Gujarati" lang="gu" hreflang="gu" data-title="આઈઝિસ" data-language-autonym="ગુજરાતી" data-language-local-name="Gujarati" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ગુજરાતી</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ko mw-list-item"><a href="https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EC%9D%B4%EC%8B%9C%EC%8A%A4" title="이시스 – Korean" lang="ko" hreflang="ko" data-title="이시스" data-language-autonym="한국어" data-language-local-name="Korean" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>한국어</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hy mw-list-item"><a href="https://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D4%BB%D5%BD%D5%AB%D5%A4%D5%A1" title="Իսիդա – Armenian" lang="hy" hreflang="hy" data-title="Իսիդա" data-language-autonym="Հայերեն" data-language-local-name="Armenian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Հայերեն</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hi mw-list-item"><a href="https://hi.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A4%88%E0%A4%B8%E0%A4%BF%E0%A4%B8" title="ईसिस – Hindi" lang="hi" hreflang="hi" data-title="ईसिस" data-language-autonym="हिन्दी" data-language-local-name="Hindi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>हिन्दी</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hr mw-list-item"><a href="https://hr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Izida" title="Izida – Croatian" lang="hr" hreflang="hr" data-title="Izida" data-language-autonym="Hrvatski" data-language-local-name="Croatian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Hrvatski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-id badge-Q17437796 badge-featuredarticle mw-list-item" title="featured article badge"><a href="https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isis" title="Isis – Indonesian" lang="id" hreflang="id" data-title="Isis" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Indonesia" data-language-local-name="Indonesian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Indonesia</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-is mw-list-item"><a href="https://is.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%8Dsis" title="Ísis – Icelandic" lang="is" hreflang="is" data-title="Ísis" data-language-autonym="Íslenska" data-language-local-name="Icelandic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Íslenska</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-it mw-list-item"><a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iside" title="Iside – Italian" lang="it" hreflang="it" data-title="Iside" data-language-autonym="Italiano" data-language-local-name="Italian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Italiano</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-he mw-list-item"><a href="https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%90%D7%99%D7%A1%D7%99%D7%A1" title="איסיס – Hebrew" lang="he" hreflang="he" data-title="איסיס" data-language-autonym="עברית" data-language-local-name="Hebrew" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>עברית</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-kn mw-list-item"><a href="https://kn.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B2%90%E0%B2%B8%E0%B2%BF%E0%B2%B8%E0%B3%8D" title="ಐಸಿಸ್ – Kannada" lang="kn" hreflang="kn" data-title="ಐಸಿಸ್" data-language-autonym="ಕನ್ನಡ" data-language-local-name="Kannada" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ಕನ್ನಡ</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ka mw-list-item"><a href="https://ka.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%83%98%E1%83%A1%E1%83%98%E1%83%93%E1%83%90" title="ისიდა – Georgian" lang="ka" hreflang="ka" data-title="ისიდა" data-language-autonym="ქართული" data-language-local-name="Georgian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ქართული</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sw mw-list-item"><a href="https://sw.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isis" title="Isis – Swahili" lang="sw" hreflang="sw" data-title="Isis" data-language-autonym="Kiswahili" data-language-local-name="Swahili" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Kiswahili</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-la mw-list-item"><a href="https://la.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isis" title="Isis – Latin" lang="la" hreflang="la" data-title="Isis" data-language-autonym="Latina" data-language-local-name="Latin" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Latina</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lv mw-list-item"><a href="https://lv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iz%C4%ABda" title="Izīda – Latvian" lang="lv" hreflang="lv" data-title="Izīda" data-language-autonym="Latviešu" data-language-local-name="Latvian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Latviešu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lt mw-list-item"><a href="https://lt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Izid%C4%97" title="Izidė – Lithuanian" lang="lt" hreflang="lt" data-title="Izidė" data-language-autonym="Lietuvių" data-language-local-name="Lithuanian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Lietuvių</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lfn mw-list-item"><a href="https://lfn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isis" title="Isis – Lingua Franca Nova" lang="lfn" hreflang="lfn" data-title="Isis" data-language-autonym="Lingua Franca Nova" data-language-local-name="Lingua Franca Nova" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Lingua Franca Nova</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hu mw-list-item"><a href="https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%8Dzisz" title="Ízisz – Hungarian" lang="hu" hreflang="hu" data-title="Ízisz" data-language-autonym="Magyar" data-language-local-name="Hungarian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Magyar</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mk mw-list-item"><a href="https://mk.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%98%D0%B7%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B0" title="Изида – Macedonian" lang="mk" hreflang="mk" data-title="Изида" data-language-autonym="Македонски" data-language-local-name="Macedonian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Македонски</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ml mw-list-item"><a href="https://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B4%90%E0%B4%B8%E0%B4%BF%E0%B4%B8%E0%B5%8D" title="ഐസിസ് – Malayalam" lang="ml" hreflang="ml" data-title="ഐസിസ്" data-language-autonym="മലയാളം" data-language-local-name="Malayalam" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>മലയാളം</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-xmf mw-list-item"><a href="https://xmf.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%83%98%E1%83%A1%E1%83%98%E1%83%93%E1%83%90" title="ისიდა – Mingrelian" lang="xmf" hreflang="xmf" data-title="ისიდა" data-language-autonym="მარგალური" data-language-local-name="Mingrelian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>მარგალური</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-arz mw-list-item"><a href="https://arz.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%8A%D8%B2%D9%8A%D8%B3" title="ايزيس – Egyptian Arabic" lang="arz" hreflang="arz" data-title="ايزيس" data-language-autonym="مصرى" data-language-local-name="Egyptian Arabic" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>مصرى</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ms mw-list-item"><a href="https://ms.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isis" title="Isis – Malay" lang="ms" hreflang="ms" data-title="Isis" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Melayu" data-language-local-name="Malay" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Bahasa Melayu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-mni mw-list-item"><a href="https://mni.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EA%AF%91%EA%AF%A5%EA%AF%8F%EA%AF%81%EA%AF%A4%EA%AF%81" title="ꯑꯥꯏꯁꯤꯁ – Manipuri" lang="mni" hreflang="mni" data-title="ꯑꯥꯏꯁꯤꯁ" data-language-autonym="ꯃꯤꯇꯩ ꯂꯣꯟ" data-language-local-name="Manipuri" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ꯃꯤꯇꯩ ꯂꯣꯟ</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cdo mw-list-item"><a href="https://cdo.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isis" title="Isis – Mindong" lang="cdo" hreflang="cdo" data-title="Isis" data-language-autonym="閩東語 / Mìng-dĕ̤ng-ngṳ̄" data-language-local-name="Mindong" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>閩東語 / Mìng-dĕ̤ng-ngṳ̄</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-my mw-list-item"><a href="https://my.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%80%A1%E1%80%AD%E1%80%AF%E1%80%80%E1%80%BA%E1%80%85%E1%80%85%E1%80%BA%E1%80%94%E1%80%90%E1%80%BA%E1%80%98%E1%80%AF%E1%80%9B%E1%80%AC%E1%80%B8%E1%80%99" title="အိုက်စစ်နတ်ဘုရားမ – Burmese" lang="my" hreflang="my" data-title="အိုက်စစ်နတ်ဘုရားမ" data-language-autonym="မြန်မာဘာသာ" data-language-local-name="Burmese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>မြန်မာဘာသာ</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nah mw-list-item"><a href="https://nah.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isis" title="Isis – Nahuatl" lang="nah" hreflang="nah" data-title="Isis" data-language-autonym="Nāhuatl" data-language-local-name="Nahuatl" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Nāhuatl</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-nl mw-list-item"><a href="https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isis_(godin)" title="Isis (godin) – Dutch" lang="nl" hreflang="nl" data-title="Isis (godin)" data-language-autonym="Nederlands" data-language-local-name="Dutch" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Nederlands</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ja mw-list-item"><a href="https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%A4%E3%82%B7%E3%82%B9" title="イシス – Japanese" lang="ja" hreflang="ja" data-title="イシス" data-language-autonym="日本語" data-language-local-name="Japanese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>日本語</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-no mw-list-item"><a href="https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isis" title="Isis – Norwegian Bokmål" lang="nb" hreflang="nb" data-title="Isis" data-language-autonym="Norsk bokmål" data-language-local-name="Norwegian Bokmål" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Norsk bokmål</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-oc mw-list-item"><a href="https://oc.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isis" title="Isis – Occitan" lang="oc" hreflang="oc" data-title="Isis" data-language-autonym="Occitan" data-language-local-name="Occitan" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Occitan</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-uz mw-list-item"><a href="https://uz.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isis" title="Isis – Uzbek" lang="uz" hreflang="uz" data-title="Isis" data-language-autonym="Oʻzbekcha / ўзбекча" data-language-local-name="Uzbek" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Oʻzbekcha / ўзбекча</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pa mw-list-item"><a href="https://pa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%A8%86%E0%A8%88%E0%A8%B8%E0%A9%B1%E0%A8%B8" title="ਆਈਸੱਸ – Punjabi" lang="pa" hreflang="pa" data-title="ਆਈਸੱਸ" data-language-autonym="ਪੰਜਾਬੀ" data-language-local-name="Punjabi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ਪੰਜਾਬੀ</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ps mw-list-item"><a href="https://ps.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%8A%D8%B3%D9%8A%D8%B3" title="ايسيس – Pashto" lang="ps" hreflang="ps" data-title="ايسيس" data-language-autonym="پښتو" data-language-local-name="Pashto" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>پښتو</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pl mw-list-item"><a href="https://pl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Izyda" title="Izyda – Polish" lang="pl" hreflang="pl" data-title="Izyda" data-language-autonym="Polski" data-language-local-name="Polish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Polski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-pt mw-list-item"><a href="https://pt.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%8Dsis" title="Ísis – Portuguese" lang="pt" hreflang="pt" data-title="Ísis" data-language-autonym="Português" data-language-local-name="Portuguese" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Português</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ro mw-list-item"><a href="https://ro.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isis" title="Isis – Romanian" lang="ro" hreflang="ro" data-title="Isis" data-language-autonym="Română" data-language-local-name="Romanian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Română</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ru mw-list-item"><a href="https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%98%D1%81%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B0" title="Исида – Russian" lang="ru" hreflang="ru" data-title="Исида" data-language-autonym="Русский" data-language-local-name="Russian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Русский</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sco mw-list-item"><a href="https://sco.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isis" title="Isis – Scots" lang="sco" hreflang="sco" data-title="Isis" data-language-autonym="Scots" data-language-local-name="Scots" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Scots</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-scn mw-list-item"><a href="https://scn.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isidi" title="Isidi – Sicilian" lang="scn" hreflang="scn" data-title="Isidi" data-language-autonym="Sicilianu" data-language-local-name="Sicilian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Sicilianu</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-simple mw-list-item"><a href="https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isis" title="Isis – Simple English" lang="en-simple" hreflang="en-simple" data-title="Isis" data-language-autonym="Simple English" data-language-local-name="Simple English" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Simple English</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sd mw-list-item"><a href="https://sd.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A7%D9%8A%D8%B2%D9%8A%D8%B3" title="ايزيس – Sindhi" lang="sd" hreflang="sd" data-title="ايزيس" data-language-autonym="سنڌي" data-language-local-name="Sindhi" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>سنڌي</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sk mw-list-item"><a href="https://sk.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eset" title="Eset – Slovak" lang="sk" hreflang="sk" data-title="Eset" data-language-autonym="Slovenčina" data-language-local-name="Slovak" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Slovenčina</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sl mw-list-item"><a href="https://sl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Izida" title="Izida – Slovenian" lang="sl" hreflang="sl" data-title="Izida" data-language-autonym="Slovenščina" data-language-local-name="Slovenian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Slovenščina</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ckb mw-list-item"><a href="https://ckb.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A6%DB%8C%D8%B2%DB%8C%D8%B3" title="ئیزیس – Central Kurdish" lang="ckb" hreflang="ckb" data-title="ئیزیس" data-language-autonym="کوردی" data-language-local-name="Central Kurdish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>کوردی</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sr mw-list-item"><a href="https://sr.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%98%D0%B7%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B0" title="Изида – Serbian" lang="sr" hreflang="sr" data-title="Изида" data-language-autonym="Српски / srpski" data-language-local-name="Serbian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Српски / srpski</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sh mw-list-item"><a href="https://sh.wikipedia.org/wiki/Izida" title="Izida – Serbo-Croatian" lang="sh" hreflang="sh" data-title="Izida" data-language-autonym="Srpskohrvatski / српскохрватски" data-language-local-name="Serbo-Croatian" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Srpskohrvatski / српскохрватски</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fi mw-list-item"><a href="https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isis" title="Isis – Finnish" lang="fi" hreflang="fi" data-title="Isis" data-language-autonym="Suomi" data-language-local-name="Finnish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Suomi</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-sv mw-list-item"><a href="https://sv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isis" title="Isis – Swedish" lang="sv" hreflang="sv" data-title="Isis" data-language-autonym="Svenska" data-language-local-name="Swedish" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Svenska</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-tl mw-list-item"><a href="https://tl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isis_(diyosa)" title="Isis (diyosa) – Tagalog" lang="tl" hreflang="tl" data-title="Isis (diyosa)" data-language-autonym="Tagalog" data-language-local-name="Tagalog" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>Tagalog</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ta mw-list-item"><a href="https://ta.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%AE%87%E0%AE%9A%E0%AE%BF%E0%AE%9A%E0%AF%81" title="இசிசு – Tamil" lang="ta" hreflang="ta" data-title="இசிசு" data-language-autonym="தமிழ்" data-language-local-name="Tamil" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>தமிழ்</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-th mw-list-item"><a href="https://th.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B9%84%E0%B8%AD%E0%B8%8B%E0%B8%B4%E0%B8%AA" title="ไอซิส – Thai" lang="th" hreflang="th" data-title="ไอซิส" data-language-autonym="ไทย" data-language-local-name="Thai" class="interlanguage-link-target"><span>ไทย</span></a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-tr mw-list-item"><a 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For the modern terrorist group commonly abbreviated as ISIS, see <a href="/wiki/Islamic_State" title="Islamic State">Islamic State</a>. For other uses, see <a href="/wiki/Isis_(disambiguation)" class="mw-disambig" title="Isis (disambiguation)">Isis (disambiguation)</a>.</div> <p class="mw-empty-elt"> </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1257001546">.mw-parser-output .infobox-subbox{padding:0;border:none;margin:-3px;width:auto;min-width:100%;font-size:100%;clear:none;float:none;background-color:transparent}.mw-parser-output .infobox-3cols-child{margin:auto}.mw-parser-output .infobox .navbar{font-size:100%}@media screen{html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .infobox-full-data:not(.notheme)>div:not(.notheme)[style]{background:#1f1f23!important;color:#f8f9fa}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .infobox-full-data:not(.notheme) div:not(.notheme){background:#1f1f23!important;color:#f8f9fa}}@media(min-width:640px){body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table{display:table!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table>caption{display:table-caption!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table>tbody{display:table-row-group}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table tr{display:table-row!important}body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table th,body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table td{padding-left:inherit;padding-right:inherit}}</style><table class="infobox"><tbody><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-above" style="font-size:125%;background-color: #DECD87;">Isis</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><span class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Frameless"><a href="/wiki/File:Isis.svg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="Profile of a woman in ancient Egyptian clothing. She has yellow skin and wears a headdress shaped like a tall chair." src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ec/Isis.svg/220px-Isis.svg.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="483" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ec/Isis.svg/330px-Isis.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/ec/Isis.svg/440px-Isis.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="350" data-file-height="768" /></a></span><div class="infobox-caption">Composite image of Isis's most distinctive Egyptian iconography, based partly on images from the <a href="/wiki/QV66" class="mw-redirect" title="QV66">tomb of Nefertari</a></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label">Name in <a href="/wiki/Egyptian_hieroglyphs" title="Egyptian hieroglyphs">hieroglyphs</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Egyptian_language" title="Egyptian language">Egyptian</a>: Ꜣūsat<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEHart200579_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHart200579-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEQuack2018108_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEQuack2018108-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <table class="mw-hiero-table mw-hiero-outer" dir="ltr"><tbody><tr><td> <table class="mw-hiero-table"><tbody><tr> <td><img class="skin-invert" style="margin: 1px;" src="/w/extensions/wikihiero/img/hiero_Q1.png?30a23" height="38" title="Q1" alt="Q1" /></td><td><img class="skin-invert" style="margin: 1px;" src="/w/extensions/wikihiero/img/hiero_X1.png?f2a8c" height="11" title="X1" alt="X1" /><br /><img class="skin-invert" style="margin: 1px;" src="/w/extensions/wikihiero/img/hiero_H8.png?530f1" height="18" title="H8" alt="H8" /></td> <td><img class="skin-invert" style="margin: 1px;" src="/w/extensions/wikihiero/img/hiero_B1.png?ca40a" height="38" title="B1" alt="B1" /></td></tr></tbody></table> </td></tr></tbody></table> <p><a href="/wiki/Meroitic_script" title="Meroitic script">Meroitic</a>: <i>Wos[a]</i> or <i>Wusa</i><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEQuack2018108_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEQuack2018108-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTERillyde_Vogt201237_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERillyde_Vogt201237-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <table class="mw-hiero-table mw-hiero-outer" dir="ltr"><tbody><tr><td> <table class="mw-hiero-table"><tbody><tr> <td><img class="skin-invert" style="margin: 1px;" src="/w/extensions/wikihiero/img/hiero_V4.png?e648c" height="36" title="V4" alt="V4" /></td><td><img class="skin-invert" style="margin: 1px;" src="/w/extensions/wikihiero/img/hiero_F1.png?8f0ee" height="18" title="F1" alt="F1" /></td><td><img class="skin-invert" style="margin: 1px;" 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title="Cavern deities of the underworld">Cavern deities</a></li></ul> <p><b>D</b> </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Dedun" title="Dedun">Dedun</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Duau_(god)" title="Duau (god)">Duau (god)</a></li></ul> <p><b>F</b> </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Four_sons_of_Horus" title="Four sons of Horus">Four sons of Horus</a></li></ul> <p><b>G</b> </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Gate_deities_of_the_underworld" title="Gate deities of the underworld">Gate deities</a></li></ul> <p><b>H</b> </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ha_(mythology)" title="Ha (mythology)">Ha</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hapi_(Nile_god)" title="Hapi (Nile god)">Hapi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hauron" title="Hauron">Hauron</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hathor" title="Hathor">Hathor</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hatmehit" title="Hatmehit">Hatmehit</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hedetet" title="Hedetet">Hedetet</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hedjhotep" title="Hedjhotep">Hedjhotep</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Heka_(god)" title="Heka 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title="Ikhemu-sek">Ikhemu-sek</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Imentet" title="Imentet">Imentet</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Imhotep" title="Imhotep">Imhotep</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ipy_(goddess)" title="Ipy (goddess)">Ipy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Iunit" title="Iunit">Iunit</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Iusaaset" title="Iusaaset">Iusaaset</a></li></ul> <p><b>K</b> </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Kebechet" title="Kebechet">Kebechet</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Khensit" title="Khensit">Khensit</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Khenti-Amentiu" title="Khenti-Amentiu">Khenti-Amentiu</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Khenti-kheti" title="Khenti-kheti">Khenti-kheti</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Khepri" title="Khepri">Khepri</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kherty" title="Kherty">Kherty</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Khnum" title="Khnum">Khnum</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Khonsu" title="Khonsu">Khonsu</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kothar-wa-Khasis" title="Kothar-wa-Khasis">Kothar-wa-Khasis</a></li></ul> <p><b>M</b> </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Maahes" title="Maahes">Maahes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Maat" title="Maat">Ma'at</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mandulis" title="Mandulis">Mandulis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Medjed_(god)" class="mw-redirect" title="Medjed (god)">Medjed</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mafdet" title="Mafdet">Mafdet</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mehen" title="Mehen">Mehen</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mehet-Weret" title="Mehet-Weret">Mehet-Weret</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mehit" title="Mehit">Mehit</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Menhit" title="Menhit">Menhit</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Meret" title="Meret">Meret</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Meretseger" title="Meretseger">Meretseger</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Meskhenet" title="Meskhenet">Meskhenet</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Min_(god)" title="Min (god)">Min</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mnevis" title="Mnevis">Mnevis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Montu" title="Montu">Montu</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mut" title="Mut">Mut</a></li></ul> <p><b>N</b> </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Nebethetepet" title="Nebethetepet">Nebethetepet</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nebtuwi" title="Nebtuwi">Nebtuwi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nefertem" title="Nefertem">Nefertem</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nehebkau" title="Nehebkau">Nehebkau</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nehmetawy" title="Nehmetawy">Nehmetawy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Neith" title="Neith">Neith</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nemty" title="Nemty">Nemty</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nekhbet" title="Nekhbet">Nekhbet</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Neper_(mythology)" title="Neper (mythology)">Neper</a></li></ul> <p><b>P</b> </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Pakhet" title="Pakhet">Pakhet</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Perit_(goddess)" title="Perit (goddess)">Perit</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Petbe" title="Petbe">Petbe</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ptah" title="Ptah">Ptah</a></li></ul> <p><b>Q</b> </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Qebui" title="Qebui">Qebui</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Qed-her" title="Qed-her">Qed-her</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Qetesh" title="Qetesh">Qetesh</a></li></ul> <p><b>R</b> </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ra" title="Ra">Ra</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Raet-Tawy" title="Raet-Tawy">Raet-Tawy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rekhyt" title="Rekhyt">Rekhyt</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rem_(mythology)" title="Rem (mythology)">Rem</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Renenutet" title="Renenutet">Renenutet</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Renpet" title="Renpet">Renpet</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Renpetneferet" title="Renpetneferet">Renpetneferet</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Repyt" title="Repyt">Repyt</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Resheph" title="Resheph">Resheph</a></li></ul> <p><b>S</b> </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Sah_(god)" title="Sah (god)">Sah</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Satis_(goddess)" title="Satis (goddess)">Satis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sebiumeker" title="Sebiumeker">Sebiumeker</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sekhmet" title="Sekhmet">Sekhmet</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Seker" title="Seker">Seker</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Serapis" title="Serapis">Serapis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Serket" title="Serket">Serket</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Seshat" title="Seshat">Seshat</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shai" title="Shai">Shai</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shed_(deity)" title="Shed (deity)">Shed</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shesmetet" title="Shesmetet">Shesmetet</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shezmu" title="Shezmu">Shezmu</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sia_(god)" title="Sia (god)">Sia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sobek" title="Sobek">Sobek</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sopdet" title="Sopdet">Sopdet</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sopdu" title="Sopdu">Sopdu</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Souls_of_Pe_and_Nekhen" title="Souls of Pe and Nekhen">Souls of Pe and Nekhen</a></li></ul> <p><b>T</b> </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Tatenen" title="Tatenen">Tatenen</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Taweret" title="Taweret">Taweret</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tayt" title="Tayt">Tayt</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ta-Bitjet" title="Ta-Bitjet">Ta-Bitjet</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thoth" title="Thoth">Thoth</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Hermes_Trismegistus" title="Hermes Trismegistus">Hermes Trismegistus</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tjenenyet" title="Tjenenyet">Tjenenyet</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tutu_(Egyptian_god)" title="Tutu (Egyptian god)">Tutu</a></li></ul> <p><b>U</b> </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Unut" title="Unut">Unut</a></li></ul> <p><b>W</b> </p> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Wadjet" title="Wadjet">Wadjet</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wadj-wer" title="Wadj-wer">Wadj-wer</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Weneg_(Egyptian_deity)" title="Weneg (Egyptian deity)">Weneg</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wepset" title="Wepset">Wepset</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wepwawet" title="Wepwawet">Wepwawet</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Werethekau" title="Werethekau">Werethekau</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wosret" title="Wosret">Wosret</a></li></ul></div></td></tr></tbody></table></div></div></div></td> </tr><tr><td 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world</a>. Isis was first mentioned in the <a href="/wiki/Old_Kingdom" class="mw-redirect" title="Old Kingdom">Old Kingdom</a> (<abbr title="circa">c.</abbr><span style="white-space:nowrap;"> 2686</span> – c.<span style="white-space:nowrap;"> 2181 BCE</span>) as one of the main characters of the <a href="/wiki/Osiris_myth" title="Osiris myth">Osiris myth</a>, in which she resurrects her slain brother and husband, the divine king <a href="/wiki/Osiris" title="Osiris">Osiris</a>, and produces and protects his heir, <a href="/wiki/Horus" title="Horus">Horus</a>. She was believed to help the dead enter the <a href="/wiki/Ancient_Egyptian_afterlife_beliefs" title="Ancient Egyptian afterlife beliefs">afterlife</a> as she had helped Osiris, and she was considered the divine mother of the <a href="/wiki/Pharaoh" title="Pharaoh">pharaoh</a>, who was likened to Horus. Her maternal aid was invoked in healing <a href="/wiki/Spell_(paranormal)" class="mw-redirect" title="Spell (paranormal)">spells</a> to benefit ordinary people. Originally, she played a limited role in royal rituals and <a href="/wiki/Egyptian_temple" title="Egyptian temple">temple</a> rites, although she was more prominent in <a href="/wiki/Ancient_Egyptian_burial_customs" class="mw-redirect" title="Ancient Egyptian burial customs">funerary practices</a> and magical texts. She was usually portrayed in art as a human woman wearing a throne-like <a href="/wiki/Egyptian_hieroglyphs" title="Egyptian hieroglyphs">hieroglyph</a> on her head. During the <a href="/wiki/New_Kingdom_of_Egypt" title="New Kingdom of Egypt">New Kingdom</a> (<abbr title="circa">c.</abbr><span style="white-space:nowrap;"> 1550</span> – c.<span style="white-space:nowrap;"> 1070 BCE</span>), as she took on traits that originally belonged to <a href="/wiki/Hathor" title="Hathor">Hathor</a>, the preeminent goddess of earlier times, Isis was portrayed wearing Hathor's headdress: a sun disk between the horns of a <a href="/wiki/Cattle_in_religion_and_mythology" title="Cattle in religion and mythology">cow</a>. </p><p>In the first millennium BCE, <a href="/wiki/Osiris" title="Osiris">Osiris</a> and Isis became the most widely worshipped Egyptian deities, and Isis absorbed traits from many other goddesses. Rulers in Egypt and its southern neighbor <a href="/wiki/Nubia" title="Nubia">Nubia</a> built temples dedicated primarily to Isis, and her temple at <a href="/wiki/Philae" class="mw-redirect" title="Philae">Philae</a> was a religious center for Egyptians and Nubians alike. Her reputed <a href="/wiki/Heku" class="mw-redirect" title="Heku">magical power</a> was greater than that of all other gods, and she was said to govern the natural world and wield power over <a href="/wiki/Fate" class="mw-redirect" title="Fate">fate</a> itself. </p><p>In the <a href="/wiki/Hellenistic_period" title="Hellenistic period">Hellenistic period</a> (323–30 BCE), when Egypt was ruled and settled by <a href="/wiki/Greeks" title="Greeks">Greeks</a>, Isis was worshipped by Greeks and Egyptians, along with a new god, <a href="/wiki/Serapis" title="Serapis">Serapis</a>. Their worship diffused into the wider <a href="/wiki/Mediterranean" class="mw-redirect" title="Mediterranean">Mediterranean</a> world. Isis's Greek devotees ascribed to her traits taken from <a href="/wiki/Greek_deities" class="mw-redirect" title="Greek deities">Greek deities</a>, such as the invention of marriage and the protection of ships at sea. As Hellenistic culture was absorbed by <a href="/wiki/Ancient_Rome" title="Ancient Rome">Rome</a> in the first century BCE, the <a href="/wiki/Cult_(religious_practice)" title="Cult (religious practice)">cult</a> of Isis became a part of <a href="/wiki/Religion_in_ancient_Rome" title="Religion in ancient Rome">Roman religion</a>. Her devotees were a small proportion of the <a href="/wiki/Roman_Empire" title="Roman Empire">Roman Empire</a>'s population but were found all across its territory. Her following developed distinctive <a href="/wiki/Roman_festival" class="mw-redirect" title="Roman festival">festivals</a> such as the <a href="/wiki/Navigium_Isidis" title="Navigium Isidis">Navigium Isidis</a>, as well as <a href="/wiki/Mysteries_of_Isis" title="Mysteries of Isis">initiation ceremonies</a> resembling those of other <a href="/wiki/Greco-Roman_mysteries" title="Greco-Roman mysteries">Greco-Roman mystery cults</a>. Some of her devotees said she encompassed all feminine divine powers in the world. </p><p>The worship of Isis was ended by the rise of <a href="/wiki/Christianity" title="Christianity">Christianity</a> in the fourth through sixth centuries CE. Her worship may have influenced Christian beliefs and practices such as the <a href="/wiki/Veneration_of_Mary" class="mw-redirect" title="Veneration of Mary">veneration of Mary</a>, but the evidence for this influence is ambiguous and often controversial. Isis continues to appear in <a href="/wiki/Western_culture" title="Western culture">Western culture</a>, particularly in <a href="/wiki/Western_esotericism" title="Western esotericism">esotericism</a> and <a href="/wiki/Modern_Paganism" class="mw-redirect" title="Modern Paganism">modern paganism</a>, often as a <a href="/wiki/Veil_of_Isis" title="Veil of Isis">personification of nature</a> or the feminine aspect of divinity. </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="In_Egypt_and_Nubia">In Egypt and Nubia</h2></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Name_and_origins">Name and origins</h3></div> <p>Whereas some <a href="/wiki/Ancient_Egyptian_deities" title="Ancient Egyptian deities">Egyptian deities</a> appeared in the late <a href="/wiki/Predynastic_Egypt" class="mw-redirect" title="Predynastic Egypt">Predynastic Period</a> (before <abbr title="circa">c.</abbr><span style="white-space:nowrap;"> 3100 BCE</span>), neither Isis nor her husband <a href="/wiki/Osiris" title="Osiris">Osiris</a> were mentioned by name before the <a href="/wiki/Fifth_Dynasty_of_Egypt" title="Fifth Dynasty of Egypt">Fifth Dynasty</a> (<abbr title="circa">c.</abbr><span style="white-space:nowrap;"> 2494–2345 BCE</span>).<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWilkinson200312–14,_146_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEWilkinson200312–14,_146-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGriffiths198041_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGriffiths198041-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> An inscription that may refer to Isis dates to the reign of <a href="/wiki/Nyuserre_Ini" title="Nyuserre Ini">Nyuserre Ini</a> during that period,<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMünster1968159_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMünster1968159-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and she appears prominently in the <a href="/wiki/Pyramid_Texts" title="Pyramid Texts">Pyramid Texts</a>, which began to be written down at the end of the dynasty and whose content may have developed much earlier.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEPinch20029–11_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEPinch20029–11-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Several passages in the Pyramid Texts link Isis with the region of the <a href="/wiki/Nile_Delta" title="Nile Delta">Nile Delta</a> near <a href="/wiki/Behbeit_el-Hagar" class="mw-redirect" title="Behbeit el-Hagar">Behbeit el-Hagar</a> and <a href="/wiki/Sebennytos" class="mw-redirect" title="Sebennytos">Sebennytos</a>, and her <a href="/wiki/Cult_(religious_practice)" title="Cult (religious practice)">cult</a> may have originated there.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMünster1968158_10-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMünster1968158-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>Note 2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Many scholars have focused on Isis's name in trying to determine her origins. Her <a href="/wiki/Egyptian_language" title="Egyptian language">Egyptian</a> name was written as <span title="Ancient Egyptian-language text"><span lang="egy"><span style="font-family:'Egyptian Text', 'Noto Sans Egyptian Hieroglyphs'"><span style="vertical-align:sub;"><span style="vertical-align:sub;line-height:180%"><span style="font-size:180%; vertical-align:sub;"><b>𓊨𓏏𓆇𓁐</b></span></span></span></span></span></span> (<span title="Ancient Egyptian-language romanization"><i lang="egy-Latn">ꜣst</i></span>), the pronunciation of which changed over time: <i>Rūsat</i> > <i>Rūsaʾ</i> > <i>ʾŪsaʾ</i> > <i>ʾĒsə</i>,<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEQuack2018108_2-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEQuack2018108-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> which became <span title="Coptic-language text"><span lang="cop">ⲎⲤⲈ</span></span> (<span title="Coptic-language romanization"><i lang="cop-Latn">Ēse</i></span>) in the <a href="/wiki/Coptic_language" title="Coptic language">Coptic form of Egyptian</a>, <span title="Meroitic-language romanization"><i lang="xmr-Latn">Wusa</i></span> in the <a href="/wiki/Meroitic_language" title="Meroitic language">Meroitic language</a> of Nubia, and <span title="Ancient Greek (to 1453)-language text"><span lang="grc">Ἶσις</span></span>, on which her modern name is based, in <a href="/wiki/Ancient_Greek_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Ancient Greek language">Greek</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEQuack2018108–109_16-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEQuack2018108–109-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-17" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>Note 3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The <a href="/wiki/Egyptian_hieroglyphs" title="Egyptian hieroglyphs">hieroglyphic</a> writing of her name incorporates the sign for a throne, which Isis also wears on her head as a sign of her identity. The symbol serves as a <a href="/wiki/Phonogram_(linguistics)" title="Phonogram (linguistics)">phonogram</a>, spelling the <i>st</i> sounds in her name, but it may have also represented a link with actual thrones. The Egyptian term for a throne was also <i>st</i> and may have shared a common <a href="/wiki/Etymology" title="Etymology">etymology</a> with Isis's name. Therefore, the Egyptologist <a href="/wiki/Kurt_Sethe" title="Kurt Sethe">Kurt Sethe</a> suggested she was originally a personification of thrones.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGriffiths198091,_95–97_18-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGriffiths198091,_95–97-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Henri_Frankfort" title="Henri Frankfort">Henri Frankfort</a> agreed, believing that the throne was considered the king's mother, and thus a goddess, because of its power to make a man into a king.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEFrankfort197843–44,_108_19-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEFrankfort197843–44,_108-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Other scholars, such as Jürgen Osing and Klaus P. Kuhlmann, have disputed this interpretation, because of dissimilarities between Isis's name and the word for a throne<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGriffiths198091,_95–97_18-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGriffiths198091,_95–97-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> or a lack of evidence that the throne was ever deified.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEKuhlmann20112_20-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEKuhlmann20112-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Roles">Roles</h3></div> <p>The <a href="/wiki/Osiris_myth" title="Osiris myth">cycle of myth surrounding Osiris's death and resurrection</a> was first recorded in the Pyramid Texts and grew into the most elaborate and influential of all <a href="/wiki/Egyptian_myths" class="mw-redirect" title="Egyptian myths">Egyptian myths</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWilkinson2003119_21-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEWilkinson2003119-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Isis plays a more active role in this myth than the other protagonists, so as it developed in <a href="/wiki/Ancient_Egyptian_literature" title="Ancient Egyptian literature">literature</a> from the <a href="/wiki/New_Kingdom_of_Egypt" title="New Kingdom of Egypt">New Kingdom</a> (<abbr title="circa">c.</abbr><span style="white-space:nowrap;"> 1550</span>–1070 BCE) to the <a href="/wiki/Ptolemaic_Period" class="mw-redirect" title="Ptolemaic Period">Ptolemaic Period</a> (305–30 BCE), she became the most complex literary character of all Egyptian deities.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEVinson2008313–316_22-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEVinson2008313–316-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> At the same time, she absorbed characteristics from many other goddesses, broadening her significance well beyond the Osiris myth.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEDunandZivie-Coche2004235–237_23-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEDunandZivie-Coche2004235–237-23"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Wife_and_mourner">Wife and mourner</h4></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Terre_cuite_pleureuse_Louvre_E27247.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="Terracotta sculpture of a woman with her arm flung across her forehead" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/45/Terre_cuite_pleureuse_Louvre_E27247.jpg/220px-Terre_cuite_pleureuse_Louvre_E27247.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="257" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/45/Terre_cuite_pleureuse_Louvre_E27247.jpg/330px-Terre_cuite_pleureuse_Louvre_E27247.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/45/Terre_cuite_pleureuse_Louvre_E27247.jpg/440px-Terre_cuite_pleureuse_Louvre_E27247.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2427" data-file-height="2832" /></a><figcaption>Sculpture of a woman, possibly Isis, in a pose of mourning; fifteenth or fourteenth century BCE</figcaption></figure> <p>Isis is part of the <a href="/wiki/Ennead_of_Heliopolis" class="mw-redirect" title="Ennead of Heliopolis">Ennead of Heliopolis</a>, a family of nine deities descended from the creator god, <a href="/wiki/Atum" title="Atum">Atum</a> or <a href="/wiki/Ra" title="Ra">Ra</a>. She and her siblings—Osiris, <a href="/wiki/Set_(mythology)" class="mw-redirect" title="Set (mythology)">Set</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Nephthys" title="Nephthys">Nephthys</a>—are the last generation of the Ennead, born to <a href="/wiki/Geb" title="Geb">Geb</a>, god of the earth, and <a href="/wiki/Nut_(goddess)" title="Nut (goddess)">Nut</a>, goddess of the sky. The creator god, the world's original ruler, passes down his authority through the male generations of the Ennead, so that Osiris becomes king. Isis, who is Osiris's <a href="/wiki/Sibling_relationship#Sibling_marriage_and_incest" title="Sibling relationship">wife as well as his sister</a>, is his queen.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEPinch200266,_68,_76–78_24-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEPinch200266,_68,_76–78-24"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Set kills Osiris and, in several versions of the story, dismembers his corpse. Isis and Nephthys, along with other deities such as <a href="/wiki/Anubis" title="Anubis">Anubis</a>, search for the pieces of their brother's body and reassemble it. Their efforts are the mythic prototype for <a href="/wiki/Mummification" class="mw-redirect" title="Mummification">mummification</a> and other <a href="/wiki/Ancient_Egyptian_funerary_practices" title="Ancient Egyptian funerary practices">ancient Egyptian funerary practices</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEPinch200279–80,_178–179_25-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEPinch200279–80,_178–179-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> According to some texts, they must also protect Osiris's body from further desecration by Set or his servants.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEPinch200280,_150_26-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEPinch200280,_150-26"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>23<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Isis is the epitome of a mourning widow. Her and Nephthys's love and grief for their brother help restore him to life, as does Isis's recitation of <a href="/wiki/Spell_(paranormal)" class="mw-redirect" title="Spell (paranormal)">magical spells</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEAssmann200532–36,_115–118_27-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEAssmann200532–36,_115–118-27"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>24<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Ancient_Egyptian_funerary_texts" title="Ancient Egyptian funerary texts">Funerary texts</a> contain speeches by Isis in which she expresses her sorrow at Osiris's death, her sexual desire for him, and even anger that he has left her. All these emotions play a part in his revival, as they are meant to stir him into action.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTESmith200954–55,_97–99_28-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESmith200954–55,_97–99-28"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>25<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Finally, Isis restores breath and life to Osiris's body and copulates with him, conceiving their son, <a href="/wiki/Horus" title="Horus">Horus</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEPinch200279–80,_178–179_25-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEPinch200279–80,_178–179-25"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> After this point Osiris lives on only in the <a href="/wiki/Duat" title="Duat">Duat</a>, or underworld. But by producing a son and heir to avenge his death and carry out funerary rites for him, Isis has ensured that her husband will endure in the afterlife.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEAssmann2001129–131,_144–145_29-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEAssmann2001129–131,_144–145-29"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>26<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Isis's role in <a href="/wiki/Ancient_Egyptian_afterlife_beliefs" title="Ancient Egyptian afterlife beliefs">afterlife beliefs</a> was based on that in the myth. She helped to restore the souls of deceased humans to wholeness as she had done for Osiris. Like other goddesses, such as <a href="/wiki/Hathor" title="Hathor">Hathor</a>, she also acted as a mother to the deceased, providing protection and nourishment.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTECooney2010227–228_30-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTECooney2010227–228-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Thus, like Hathor, she sometimes took the form of <a href="/wiki/Imentet" title="Imentet">Imentet</a>, the goddess of the west, who welcomed the deceased soul into the afterlife as her child.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEAssmann2005151–154_31-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEAssmann2005151–154-31"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>28<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> But for much of Egyptian history, male deities such as Osiris were believed to provide the regenerative powers, including sexual potency, that were crucial for rebirth. Isis was thought to merely assist by stimulating this power.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTECooney2010227–228_30-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTECooney2010227–228-30"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>27<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Feminine divine powers became more important in afterlife beliefs in the late New Kingdom.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTECooney2010235–236_32-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTECooney2010235–236-32"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>29<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Various Ptolemaic funerary texts emphasize that Isis took the active role in Horus's conception by sexually stimulating her inert husband,<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTESmith2009119,_141_33-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESmith2009119,_141-33"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>30<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> some tomb decoration from the <a href="/wiki/Roman_Egypt" title="Roman Egypt">Roman period in Egypt</a> depicts Isis in a central role in the afterlife,<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEVenit201098,_107_34-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEVenit201098,_107-34"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>31<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and a funerary text from that era suggests that women were thought able to join the retinue of Isis and Nephthys in the afterlife.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTESmith2017386_35-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESmith2017386-35"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>32<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Mother_goddess">Mother goddess</h4></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Egyptian_-_Isis_with_Horus_the_Child_-_Walters_54416_-_Three_Quarter_Right.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="Small statue of a seated woman, with a headdress of horns and a disk, holding an infant across her lap" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/91/Egyptian_-_Isis_with_Horus_the_Child_-_Walters_54416_-_Three_Quarter_Right.jpg/220px-Egyptian_-_Isis_with_Horus_the_Child_-_Walters_54416_-_Three_Quarter_Right.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="290" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/91/Egyptian_-_Isis_with_Horus_the_Child_-_Walters_54416_-_Three_Quarter_Right.jpg/330px-Egyptian_-_Isis_with_Horus_the_Child_-_Walters_54416_-_Three_Quarter_Right.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/91/Egyptian_-_Isis_with_Horus_the_Child_-_Walters_54416_-_Three_Quarter_Right.jpg/440px-Egyptian_-_Isis_with_Horus_the_Child_-_Walters_54416_-_Three_Quarter_Right.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1319" data-file-height="1741" /></a><figcaption>Isis nursing <a href="/wiki/Horus" title="Horus">Horus</a>, a sculpture from the 7th century BCE</figcaption></figure> <p>Isis is treated as the mother of Horus even in the earliest copies of the Pyramid Texts.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTELesko1999158–159_36-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTELesko1999158–159-36"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>33<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Yet there are signs that Hathor was originally regarded as his mother,<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGriffiths198014–17_37-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGriffiths198014–17-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and other traditions make an elder form of Horus the son of Nut and a sibling of Isis and Osiris.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGriffiths1970300–301_38-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGriffiths1970300–301-38"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>35<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Isis may only have come to be Horus's mother as the Osiris myth took shape during the Old Kingdom,<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGriffiths198014–17_37-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGriffiths198014–17-37"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>34<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> but through her relationship with him she came to be seen as the epitome of maternal devotion.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEPinch2002149_39-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEPinch2002149-39"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>36<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In the developed form of the myth, Isis gives birth to Horus, after a long pregnancy and a difficult labor, in the <a href="/wiki/Cyperus_papyrus" title="Cyperus papyrus">papyrus</a> thickets of the Nile Delta. As her child grows she must protect him from Set and many other hazards—snakes, scorpions, and simple illness.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEPinch200280–81,_146_40-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEPinch200280–81,_146-40"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>37<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In some texts, Isis travels among humans and must seek their help. According to one such story, seven minor scorpion deities travel with and guard her. They take revenge on a wealthy woman who has refused to help Isis by stinging the woman's son, making it necessary for the goddess to heal the blameless child.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMeeksFavard-Meeks199682,_86–87_41-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMeeksFavard-Meeks199682,_86–87-41"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>38<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Isis's reputation as a compassionate deity, willing to relieve human suffering, contributed greatly to her appeal.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTELesko1999182_42-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTELesko1999182-42"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>39<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Isis continues to assist her son when he challenges Set to claim the kingship that Set has usurped,<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTELesko1999176_43-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTELesko1999176-43"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>40<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> although mother and son are sometimes portrayed in conflict, as when Horus beheads Isis and she replaces her original head with that of a cow—an <a href="/wiki/Origin_myth" title="Origin myth">origin myth</a> explaining the cow-horn headdress that Isis wears.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGriffiths2001189_44-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGriffiths2001189-44"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>41<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Isis's maternal aspect extended to other deities as well. The <a href="/wiki/Coffin_Texts" title="Coffin Texts">Coffin Texts</a> from the <a href="/wiki/Middle_Kingdom_of_Egypt" title="Middle Kingdom of Egypt">Middle Kingdom</a> (<abbr title="circa">c.</abbr><span style="white-space:nowrap;"> 2055</span>–1650 BCE) say the <a href="/wiki/Four_sons_of_Horus" title="Four sons of Horus">Four sons of Horus</a>, funerary deities who were thought to protect the internal organs of the deceased, were the offspring of Isis and the elder form of Horus.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEPinch2002145_45-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEPinch2002145-45"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>42<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In the same era, Horus was syncretized with the <a href="/wiki/List_of_fertility_deities" title="List of fertility deities">fertility god</a> <a href="/wiki/Min_(god)" title="Min (god)">Min</a>, so Isis was regarded as Min's mother.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWilkinson2003115_46-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEWilkinson2003115-46"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>43<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> A form of Min known as Kamutef, "bull of his mother", who represented the cyclical regeneration of the gods and of kingship, was said to impregnate his mother to engender himself.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTETraunecker2001221–222_47-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETraunecker2001221–222-47"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>44<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Thus, Isis was also regarded as Min's consort.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMünster1968134–135_48-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMünster1968134–135-48"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>45<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The same ideology of kingship may lie behind a tradition, found in a few texts, that Horus raped Isis.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGriffiths196048–50_49-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGriffiths196048–50-49"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>46<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMeeksFavard-Meeks199667_50-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMeeksFavard-Meeks199667-50"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>47<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Amun" title="Amun">Amun</a>, the foremost Egyptian deity during the Middle and New Kingdoms, also took on the role of Kamutef, and when he was in this form, Isis often acted as his consort.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMünster1968134–135_48-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMünster1968134–135-48"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>45<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Apis_(god)" class="mw-redirect" title="Apis (god)">Apis</a>, a bull that was worshipped as a living god at <a href="/wiki/Memphis,_Egypt" title="Memphis, Egypt">Memphis</a>, was said to be Isis's son, fathered by a form of Osiris known as Osiris-Apis. The biological mother of each Apis bull was thus known as the "Isis cow".<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTESmith2017393_51-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESmith2017393-51"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>48<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Isis was said to be the mother of <a href="/wiki/Bastet" title="Bastet">Bastet</a> by <a href="/wiki/Ra" title="Ra">Ra</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEPinch2002115_52-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEPinch2002115-52"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>49<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>A story in the <a href="/wiki/Westcar_Papyrus" title="Westcar Papyrus">Westcar Papyrus</a> from the Middle Kingdom includes Isis among a group of goddesses who serve as midwives during the delivery of three future kings.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTELesko1999180–181_53-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTELesko1999180–181-53"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>50<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> She serves a similar role in New Kingdom texts that describe the divinely ordained births of reigning pharaohs.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMeeksFavard-Meeks1996185–186_54-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMeeksFavard-Meeks1996185–186-54"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>51<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In the Westcar Papyrus, Isis calls out the names of the three children as they are born. Barbara S. Lesko sees this story as a sign that Isis had the power to predict or influence future events, as did other deities who presided over birth,<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMünster1968134–135_48-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMünster1968134–135-48"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>45<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> such as <a href="/wiki/Shai" title="Shai">Shai</a> and <a href="/wiki/Renenutet" title="Renenutet">Renenutet</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEVanderlip197293–96_55-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEVanderlip197293–96-55"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>52<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Texts from much later times call Isis "mistress of life, ruler of fate and destiny"<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMünster1968134–135_48-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMünster1968134–135-48"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>45<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and indicate she has control over Shai and Renenutet, just as other great deities such as Amun were said to do in earlier eras of Egyptian history. By governing these deities, Isis determined the length and quality of human lives.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEVanderlip197293–96_55-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEVanderlip197293–96-55"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>52<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Goddess_of_kingship_and_protection_of_the_kingdom">Goddess of kingship and protection of the kingdom</h4></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Abydos_Tempelrelief_Sethos_I._15.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="Relief of a seated woman with an elaborate headdress. In her lap is a child with a cap-shaped crown whose head she cradles." src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a5/Abydos_Tempelrelief_Sethos_I._15.JPG/220px-Abydos_Tempelrelief_Sethos_I._15.JPG" decoding="async" width="220" height="445" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a5/Abydos_Tempelrelief_Sethos_I._15.JPG/330px-Abydos_Tempelrelief_Sethos_I._15.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a5/Abydos_Tempelrelief_Sethos_I._15.JPG/440px-Abydos_Tempelrelief_Sethos_I._15.JPG 2x" data-file-width="1754" data-file-height="3550" /></a><figcaption>Isis holds the king, <a href="/wiki/Seti_I" title="Seti I">Seti I</a>, in her lap, thirteenth century BCE</figcaption></figure> <p>Horus was equated with each living pharaoh and Osiris with the pharaoh's deceased predecessors. Isis was therefore the mythological mother and wife of kings. In the Pyramid Texts her primary importance to the king was as one of the deities who protected and assisted him in the afterlife. Her prominence in royal ideology grew in the New Kingdom.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTELesko1999159,_170_56-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTELesko1999159,_170-56"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>53<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Temple reliefs from that time on show the king nursing at Isis's breast; her milk not only healed her child, but symbolized his divine right to rule.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEAssmann2001134_57-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEAssmann2001134-57"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>54<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Royal ideology increasingly emphasized the importance of queens as earthly counterparts of the goddesses who served as wives to the king and mothers to his heirs. Initially the most important of these goddesses was Hathor, whose attributes in art were incorporated into queens' crowns. But because of her own mythological links with queenship, Isis too was given the same titles and regalia as human queens.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTETroy198668–70_58-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETroy198668–70-58"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>55<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Isis's actions in protecting Osiris against Set became part of a larger, more warlike aspect of her character.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEŽabkar198860–62,_72_59-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEŽabkar198860–62,_72-59"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>56<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> New Kingdom funerary texts portray Isis in the barque of Ra as he sails through the underworld, acting as one of several deities who subdue Ra's archenemy, <a href="/wiki/Apep" title="Apep">Apep</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEŽabkar198873–74,_81–82_60-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEŽabkar198873–74,_81–82-60"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>57<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Kings also called upon her <a href="/wiki/Apotropaic" class="mw-redirect" title="Apotropaic">protective magical power</a> against human enemies. In her Ptolemaic temple at <a href="/wiki/Philae" class="mw-redirect" title="Philae">Philae</a>, which lay near the frontier with <a href="/wiki/Nubia" title="Nubia">Nubian</a> peoples who raided Egypt, she was described as the protectress of the entire nation, more effective in battle than "millions of soldiers", supporting Ptolemaic kings and Roman emperors in their efforts to subdue Egypt's enemies.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEŽabkar198860–62,_72_59-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEŽabkar198860–62,_72-59"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>56<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Goddess_of_magic_and_wisdom">Goddess of magic and wisdom</h4></div> <p>Isis was also known for her <a href="/wiki/Heku" class="mw-redirect" title="Heku">magical power</a>, which enabled her to revive Osiris and to protect and heal Horus, and for her cunning.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEPinch2002151_61-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEPinch2002151-61"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>58<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> By virtue of her magical knowledge, she was said to be "more clever than a million gods".<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMeeksFavard-Meeks199698_62-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMeeksFavard-Meeks199698-62"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>59<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEHart200581–82_63-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHart200581–82-63"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>60<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In several episodes in the New Kingdom story "<a href="/wiki/The_Contendings_of_Horus_and_Set" class="mw-redirect" title="The Contendings of Horus and Set">The Contendings of Horus and Set</a>", Isis uses these abilities to outmaneuver Set during his conflict with her son. On one occasion, she transforms into a young woman who tells Set she is involved in an inheritance dispute similar to Set's usurpation of Osiris's crown. When Set calls this situation unjust, Isis taunts him, saying he has judged himself to be in the wrong.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEHart200581–82_63-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHart200581–82-63"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>60<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In later texts, she uses her powers of transformation to fight and destroy Set and his followers.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEPinch2002151_61-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEPinch2002151-61"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>58<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Many stories about Isis appear as <i><a href="/wiki/Historiolae" class="mw-redirect" title="Historiolae">historiolae</a></i>, prologues to magical texts that describe mythic events related to the goal that the spell aims to accomplish.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEVinson2008313–316_22-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEVinson2008313–316-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In one spell, Isis creates a snake that bites Ra, who is older and greater than she is, and makes him ill with its venom. She offers to cure Ra if he will tell her his <a href="/wiki/True_name" title="True name">true, secret name</a>—a piece of knowledge that carries with it incomparable power. After much coercion, Ra tells her his name, which she passes on to Horus, bolstering his royal authority.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEHart200581–82_63-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHart200581–82-63"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>60<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The story may be meant as an origin story to explain why Isis's magical ability surpasses that of other deities, but because she uses magic to subdue Ra, the story seems to treat her as having such abilities even before learning his name.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBaines1996371_64-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBaines1996371-64"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>61<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Sky_goddess">Sky goddess</h4></div> <p>Many of the roles Isis acquired gave her an important position in the sky.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWilkinson2003147_65-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEWilkinson2003147-65"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>62<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Passages in the Pyramid Texts connect Isis closely with <a href="/wiki/Sopdet" title="Sopdet">Sopdet</a>, the goddess representing the star <a href="/wiki/Sirius" title="Sirius">Sirius</a>, whose relationship with her husband <a href="/wiki/Sah_(god)" title="Sah (god)">Sah</a>—the constellation <a href="/wiki/Orion_(constellation)" title="Orion (constellation)">Orion</a>—and their son <a href="/wiki/Sopdu" title="Sopdu">Sopdu</a> parallels Isis's relations with Osiris and Horus. Sirius's <a href="/wiki/Heliacal_rising" title="Heliacal rising">heliacal rising</a>, just before the start of the <a href="/wiki/Flooding_of_the_Nile" title="Flooding of the Nile">Nile flood</a>, gave Sopdet a close connection with the flood and the resulting growth of plants.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGriffiths198012–14,_157–158_66-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGriffiths198012–14,_157–158-66"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>63<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Partly because of her relationship with Sopdet, Isis was also linked with the flood,<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEŽabkar1988114_67-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEŽabkar1988114-67"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>64<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> which was sometimes equated with the tears she shed for Osiris.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTETobin2001466_68-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETobin2001466-68"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>65<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>By Ptolemaic times she was connected with rain, which Egyptian texts call a "Nile in the sky"; with the sun as the protector of Ra's barque;<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEŽabkar198843–44,_81–82_69-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEŽabkar198843–44,_81–82-69"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>66<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and with the moon, possibly because she was linked with the Greek lunar goddess <a href="/wiki/Artemis" title="Artemis">Artemis</a> by a shared connection with an Egyptian fertility goddess, <a href="/wiki/Bastet" title="Bastet">Bastet</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEDelia1998546–547_70-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEDelia1998546–547-70"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>67<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In hymns inscribed at Philae she is called the "Lady of Heaven" whose dominion over the sky parallels Osiris's rule over the Duat and Horus's kingship on earth.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEŽabkar198852–53_71-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEŽabkar198852–53-71"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>68<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Universal_goddess">Universal goddess</h4></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Uc2.ark_13960_t8rb76g72-seq_327_(cropped_Isis).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a1/Uc2.ark_13960_t8rb76g72-seq_327_%28cropped_Isis%29.jpg/220px-Uc2.ark_13960_t8rb76g72-seq_327_%28cropped_Isis%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="274" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a1/Uc2.ark_13960_t8rb76g72-seq_327_%28cropped_Isis%29.jpg/330px-Uc2.ark_13960_t8rb76g72-seq_327_%28cropped_Isis%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a1/Uc2.ark_13960_t8rb76g72-seq_327_%28cropped_Isis%29.jpg/440px-Uc2.ark_13960_t8rb76g72-seq_327_%28cropped_Isis%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="648" data-file-height="807" /></a><figcaption>Isis, crowned with the lotus and bearing the sceptre. An intaglio, of Ptolemaic date, in sardonyx.</figcaption></figure> <p>In Ptolemaic times Isis's sphere of influence could include the entire cosmos.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEŽabkar198852–53_71-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEŽabkar198852–53-71"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>68<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> As the deity that protected Egypt and endorsed its king, she had power over all nations, and as the provider of rain, she enlivened the natural world.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEŽabkar198842–44,_67_72-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEŽabkar198842–44,_67-72"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>69<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The Philae hymn that initially calls her ruler of the sky goes on to expand her authority, so at its climax her dominion encompasses the sky, earth, and Duat. It says her power over nature nourishes humans, the blessed dead, and the gods.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEŽabkar198852–53_71-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEŽabkar198852–53-71"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>68<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Other, Greek-language hymns from Ptolemaic Egypt call her "the beautiful essence of all the gods".<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEAssmann199749–50_73-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEAssmann199749–50-73"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>70<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In the course of Egyptian history, many deities, major and minor, had been described in similar grand terms. Amun was most commonly described this way in the New Kingdom, whereas in Roman Egypt such terms tended to be applied to Isis.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEAssmann2001240–242_74-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEAssmann2001240–242-74"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>71<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Such texts do not deny the existence of other deities but treat them as aspects of the supreme deity, a type of theology sometimes called "<a href="/w/index.php?title=Summodeism&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Summodeism (page does not exist)">summodeism</a>".<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWente2001433–434_75-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEWente2001433–434-75"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>72<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTESmith2010169_76-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESmith2010169-76"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>73<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In the Late, Ptolemaic, and Roman Periods, many temples contained a <a href="/wiki/Ancient_Egyptian_creation_myths" title="Ancient Egyptian creation myths">creation myth</a> that adapted long-standing ideas about creation to give the primary roles to local deities.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMcClain20113–4_77-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMcClain20113–4-77"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>74<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> At Philae, Isis is described as the creator in the same way that older texts speak of the work of the god <a href="/wiki/Ptah" title="Ptah">Ptah</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEŽabkar198852–53_71-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEŽabkar198852–53-71"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>68<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> who was said to have designed the world with his intellect and sculpted it into being.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEPinch200261–62_78-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEPinch200261–62-78"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>75<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Like him, Isis formed the cosmos "through what her heart conceived and her hands created".<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEŽabkar198852–53_71-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEŽabkar198852–53-71"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>68<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Like other deities throughout Egyptian history, Isis had many forms in her individual cult centers, and each cult center emphasized different aspects of her character. Local Isis cults focused on the distinctive traits of their deity more than on her universality, whereas some Egyptian hymns to Isis treat other goddesses in cult centers from across Egypt and the Mediterranean as manifestations of her. A text in her temple at <a href="/wiki/Dendera_temple_complex" class="mw-redirect" title="Dendera temple complex">Dendera</a> says "in each <a href="/wiki/Nome_(Egypt)" title="Nome (Egypt)">nome</a> it is she who is in every town, in every nome with her son Horus."<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEFrankfurter199899–102_79-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEFrankfurter199899–102-79"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>76<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Iconography">Iconography</h3></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Queen_Nefertari_being_led_by_Isis_MET_DP167142.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/39/Queen_Nefertari_being_led_by_Isis_MET_DP167142.jpg/220px-Queen_Nefertari_being_led_by_Isis_MET_DP167142.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="329" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/39/Queen_Nefertari_being_led_by_Isis_MET_DP167142.jpg/330px-Queen_Nefertari_being_led_by_Isis_MET_DP167142.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/39/Queen_Nefertari_being_led_by_Isis_MET_DP167142.jpg/440px-Queen_Nefertari_being_led_by_Isis_MET_DP167142.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2673" data-file-height="4000" /></a><figcaption>Queen <a href="/wiki/Nefertari" title="Nefertari">Nefertari</a> being led by Isis</figcaption></figure> <p>In <a href="/wiki/Art_of_ancient_Egypt" title="Art of ancient Egypt">Ancient Egyptian art</a>, Isis was most commonly depicted as a woman with the typical attributes of a goddess: a sheath dress, a staff of papyrus in one hand, and an <i><a href="/wiki/Ankh" title="Ankh">ankh</a></i> sign in the other. Her original headdress was the throne sign used in writing her name. She and Nephthys often appear together, particularly when mourning Osiris's death, supporting him on his throne, or protecting the <a href="/wiki/Sarcophagi" class="mw-redirect" title="Sarcophagi">sarcophagi</a> of the dead. In these situations their arms are often flung across their faces, in a gesture of mourning, or outstretched around Osiris or the deceased as a sign of their protective role.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWilkinson2003148–149,_160_80-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEWilkinson2003148–149,_160-80"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>77<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In these circumstances they were often depicted as <a href="/wiki/Kite_(bird)" title="Kite (bird)">kites</a> or women with the wings of kites. This form may be inspired by a similarity between the kites' calls and the cries of wailing women,<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGriffiths198049–50_81-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGriffiths198049–50-81"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>78<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> or by a metaphor likening the kite's search for carrion to the goddesses' search for their dead brother.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWilkinson2003148–149,_160_80-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEWilkinson2003148–149,_160-80"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>77<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Isis sometimes appeared in other animal forms: as a sow, representing her maternal character; as a <a href="/wiki/Cattle_in_religion_and_mythology" title="Cattle in religion and mythology">cow</a>, particularly when linked with Apis; or as a scorpion.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWilkinson2003148–149,_160_80-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEWilkinson2003148–149,_160-80"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>77<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> She also took the form of a tree or a woman emerging from a tree, sometimes offering food and water to deceased souls. This form alluded to the maternal nourishment she provided.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWilkinson2003168–169_82-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEWilkinson2003168–169-82"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>79<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Beginning in the New Kingdom, thanks to the close links between Isis and Hathor, Isis took on Hathor's attributes, such as a <a href="/wiki/Sistrum" title="Sistrum">sistrum</a> rattle and a headdress of cow horns enclosing a sun disk. Sometimes both headdresses were combined, so the throne glyph sat atop the sun disk.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWilkinson2003148–149,_160_80-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEWilkinson2003148–149,_160-80"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>77<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In the same era, she began to wear the insignia of a human queen, such as a vulture-shaped crown on her head and the royal <a href="/wiki/Uraeus" title="Uraeus">uraeus</a>, or rearing cobra, on her brow.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTETroy198668–70_58-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETroy198668–70-58"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>55<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In Ptolemaic and Roman times, statues and figurines of Isis often showed her in a <a href="/wiki/Ancient_Greek_sculpture" title="Ancient Greek sculpture">Greek sculptural style</a>, with attributes taken from Egyptian and Greek tradition.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEFrankfurter1998102–103_83-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEFrankfurter1998102–103-83"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>80<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBianchi2007493–494_84-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBianchi2007493–494-84"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>81<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Some of these images reflected her linkage with other goddesses in novel ways. Isis-Thermuthis, a combination of Isis and Renenutet who represented agricultural fertility, was depicted in this style as a woman with the lower body of a snake. Figurines of a woman wearing an elaborate headdress and <a href="/wiki/Anasyrma" title="Anasyrma">exposing her genitals</a> may represent Isis-Aphrodite.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEFrankfurter1998104_85-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEFrankfurter1998104-85"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>82<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-87" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-87"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>Note 4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The <i><a href="/wiki/Tyet" title="Tyet">tyet</a></i> symbol, a looped shape similar to the <i>ankh</i>, came to be seen as Isis's emblem at least as early as the New Kingdom, though it existed long before.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEHart200580_88-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHart200580-88"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>84<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It was often made of red <a href="/wiki/Jasper" title="Jasper">jasper</a> and likened to Isis's blood. Used as a funerary <a href="/wiki/Amulet" title="Amulet">amulet</a>, it was said to confer her protection on the wearer.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEAndrews200180_89-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEAndrews200180-89"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>85<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <ul class="gallery mw-gallery-traditional center" style="max-width: 815px;"> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Isis_(goddess).png" class="mw-file-description" title="An illustration of Isis based on a painting in the tomb of Seti I"><img alt="An illustration of Isis based on a painting in the tomb of Seti I" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/48/Isis_%28goddess%29.png/120px-Isis_%28goddess%29.png" decoding="async" width="120" height="54" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/48/Isis_%28goddess%29.png/180px-Isis_%28goddess%29.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/48/Isis_%28goddess%29.png/240px-Isis_%28goddess%29.png 2x" data-file-width="4332" data-file-height="1940" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">An illustration of Isis based on a painting in the tomb of <a href="/wiki/Seti_I" title="Seti I">Seti I</a></div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Flickr_-_schmuela_-_IMG_6672.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Isis with a combination of throne-glyph and cow horns, as well as a vulture headdress, Temple of Kalabsha, first century BCE or first century CE"><img alt="Relief of a woman in Egyptian clothing with an elaborate headdress" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/36/Flickr_-_schmuela_-_IMG_6672.jpg/90px-Flickr_-_schmuela_-_IMG_6672.jpg" decoding="async" width="90" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/36/Flickr_-_schmuela_-_IMG_6672.jpg/135px-Flickr_-_schmuela_-_IMG_6672.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/36/Flickr_-_schmuela_-_IMG_6672.jpg/180px-Flickr_-_schmuela_-_IMG_6672.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1200" data-file-height="1600" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Isis with a combination of throne-glyph and cow horns, as well as a vulture headdress, <a href="/wiki/Temple_of_Kalabsha" title="Temple of Kalabsha">Temple of Kalabsha</a>, first century BCE or first century CE</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Sarcophage_de_Rams%C3%A8s_III_(Louvre,_D_1)_-_Largeur_cot%C3%A9_sud_cropped_and_sharpened.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Winged Isis at the foot of the sarcophagus of Ramesses III, twelfth century BCE"><img alt="Relief of a woman kneeling on a stool and spreading her arms, to which wings are attached" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/73/Sarcophage_de_Rams%C3%A8s_III_%28Louvre%2C_D_1%29_-_Largeur_cot%C3%A9_sud_cropped_and_sharpened.jpg/119px-Sarcophage_de_Rams%C3%A8s_III_%28Louvre%2C_D_1%29_-_Largeur_cot%C3%A9_sud_cropped_and_sharpened.jpg" decoding="async" width="119" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/73/Sarcophage_de_Rams%C3%A8s_III_%28Louvre%2C_D_1%29_-_Largeur_cot%C3%A9_sud_cropped_and_sharpened.jpg/179px-Sarcophage_de_Rams%C3%A8s_III_%28Louvre%2C_D_1%29_-_Largeur_cot%C3%A9_sud_cropped_and_sharpened.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/73/Sarcophage_de_Rams%C3%A8s_III_%28Louvre%2C_D_1%29_-_Largeur_cot%C3%A9_sud_cropped_and_sharpened.jpg/239px-Sarcophage_de_Rams%C3%A8s_III_%28Louvre%2C_D_1%29_-_Largeur_cot%C3%A9_sud_cropped_and_sharpened.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1967" data-file-height="1977" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Winged Isis at the foot of the sarcophagus of <a href="/wiki/Ramesses_III" title="Ramesses III">Ramesses III</a>, twelfth century BCE</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Philae_Temple_Egypt_Goddess_Isis_As_Angel_Mural_Artwork_2004-10-11.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="A relief of winged Isis from the Philae Temple"><img alt="A relief of winged Isis from the Philae Temple" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/45/Philae_Temple_Egypt_Goddess_Isis_As_Angel_Mural_Artwork_2004-10-11.jpg/90px-Philae_Temple_Egypt_Goddess_Isis_As_Angel_Mural_Artwork_2004-10-11.jpg" decoding="async" width="90" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/45/Philae_Temple_Egypt_Goddess_Isis_As_Angel_Mural_Artwork_2004-10-11.jpg/135px-Philae_Temple_Egypt_Goddess_Isis_As_Angel_Mural_Artwork_2004-10-11.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/45/Philae_Temple_Egypt_Goddess_Isis_As_Angel_Mural_Artwork_2004-10-11.jpg/180px-Philae_Temple_Egypt_Goddess_Isis_As_Angel_Mural_Artwork_2004-10-11.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2112" data-file-height="2816" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">A relief of winged Isis from the <a href="/wiki/Philae_temple_complex" title="Philae temple complex">Philae Temple</a></div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:ThebanTomb335.png" class="mw-file-description" title="Isis, left, and Nephthys stand by as Anubis embalms the deceased, thirteenth century BCE. A winged Isis appears at top."><img alt="Fresco of a mummy lying on a bier. Women stand at the head and foot of the bier, while a winged woman kneels in the register above" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/ThebanTomb335.png/118px-ThebanTomb335.png" decoding="async" width="118" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/ThebanTomb335.png/177px-ThebanTomb335.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/ThebanTomb335.png/235px-ThebanTomb335.png 2x" data-file-width="724" data-file-height="738" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Isis, left, and <a href="/wiki/Nephthys" title="Nephthys">Nephthys</a> stand by as <a href="/wiki/Anubis" title="Anubis">Anubis</a> embalms the deceased, thirteenth century BCE. A winged Isis appears at top.</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Isis_with_Serpent_Tail_LACMA_M.80.202.222.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Figurine of Isis-Thermuthis, second century CE"><img alt="Statue of a snake with the upper torso and head of a woman" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c2/Isis_with_Serpent_Tail_LACMA_M.80.202.222.jpg/83px-Isis_with_Serpent_Tail_LACMA_M.80.202.222.jpg" decoding="async" width="83" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c2/Isis_with_Serpent_Tail_LACMA_M.80.202.222.jpg/125px-Isis_with_Serpent_Tail_LACMA_M.80.202.222.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c2/Isis_with_Serpent_Tail_LACMA_M.80.202.222.jpg/166px-Isis_with_Serpent_Tail_LACMA_M.80.202.222.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1455" data-file-height="2100" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Figurine of Isis-Thermuthis, second century CE</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:%C3%84gyptisches_Museum_Leipzig_206.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Figurine possibly of Isis-Aphrodite, second or first century BCE"><img alt="Statue of a woman with a very tall headdress lifting her dress up to the hips" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/46/%C3%84gyptisches_Museum_Leipzig_206.jpg/82px-%C3%84gyptisches_Museum_Leipzig_206.jpg" decoding="async" width="82" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/46/%C3%84gyptisches_Museum_Leipzig_206.jpg/123px-%C3%84gyptisches_Museum_Leipzig_206.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/46/%C3%84gyptisches_Museum_Leipzig_206.jpg/164px-%C3%84gyptisches_Museum_Leipzig_206.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1707" data-file-height="2492" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Figurine possibly of Isis-<a href="/wiki/Aphrodite" title="Aphrodite">Aphrodite</a>, second or first century BCE</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 155px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 150px; height: 150px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Tit_(Isis_knot)_amulet_MET_DP109370.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="A tyet amulet, fifteenth or fourteenth century BCE"><img alt="A red stone amulet shaped like a column with a looped top and two loops hanging at the sides" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/07/Tit_%28Isis_knot%29_amulet_MET_DP109370.jpg/97px-Tit_%28Isis_knot%29_amulet_MET_DP109370.jpg" decoding="async" width="97" height="120" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/07/Tit_%28Isis_knot%29_amulet_MET_DP109370.jpg/146px-Tit_%28Isis_knot%29_amulet_MET_DP109370.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/07/Tit_%28Isis_knot%29_amulet_MET_DP109370.jpg/194px-Tit_%28Isis_knot%29_amulet_MET_DP109370.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3000" data-file-height="3700" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">A <i><a href="/wiki/Tyet" title="Tyet">tyet</a></i> amulet, fifteenth or fourteenth century BCE </div> </li> </ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Worship">Worship</h3></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Relationship_with_royalty">Relationship with royalty</h4></div> <p>Despite her significance in the Osiris myth, Isis was originally a minor deity in the ideology surrounding the living king. She played only a small role, for instance, in the <a href="/wiki/Dramatic_Ramesseum_Papyrus" title="Dramatic Ramesseum Papyrus">Dramatic Ramesseum Papyrus</a>, the script for royal rituals performed in the reign of <a href="/wiki/Senusret_I" title="Senusret I">Senusret I</a> in the Middle Kingdom.<sup id="cite_ref-90" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-90"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>86<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Her importance grew during the New Kingdom,<sup id="cite_ref-91" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-91"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>87<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> when she was increasingly connected with Hathor and the human queen.<sup id="cite_ref-92" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-92"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>88<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The early first millennium BCE saw an increased emphasis on the family triad of Osiris, Isis, and Horus and an explosive growth in Isis's popularity. In the fourth century BCE, <a href="/wiki/Nectanebo_I" title="Nectanebo I">Nectanebo I</a> of the <a href="/wiki/Thirtieth_Dynasty_of_Egypt" title="Thirtieth Dynasty of Egypt">Thirtieth Dynasty</a> claimed Isis as his patron deity, tying her still more closely to political power.<sup id="cite_ref-93" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-93"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>89<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The <a href="/wiki/Kingdom_of_Kush" title="Kingdom of Kush">Kingdom of Kush</a>, which ruled Nubia from the eighth century BCE to the fourth century CE, absorbed and adapted the Egyptian ideology surrounding kingship. It equated Isis with the <i><a href="/wiki/Kandake" title="Kandake">kandake</a></i>, the queen or <a href="/wiki/Queen_mother" title="Queen mother">queen mother</a> of the Kushite king.<sup id="cite_ref-94" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-94"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>90<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The <a href="/wiki/Ptolemaic_dynasty" title="Ptolemaic dynasty">Ptolemaic</a> Greek kings, who ruled Egypt as pharaohs from 305 to 30 BCE, developed an ideology that linked them with both Egyptian and <a href="/wiki/List_of_Greek_mythological_figures#Immortals" title="List of Greek mythological figures">Greek deities</a>, to strengthen their claim to the throne in the eyes of their Greek and Egyptian subjects. For centuries before, <a href="/wiki/Colonies_in_antiquity#Greek_colonies" title="Colonies in antiquity">Greek colonists</a> and visitors to Egypt had drawn parallels between Egyptian deities and their own, in a process known as <i><a href="/wiki/Interpretatio_graeca" title="Interpretatio graeca">interpretatio graeca</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-95" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-95"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>91<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Herodotus" title="Herodotus">Herodotus</a>, a Greek who wrote about Egypt in the fifth century BCE, likened Isis to <a href="/wiki/Demeter" title="Demeter">Demeter</a>, whose mythical search for her daughter <a href="/wiki/Persephone" title="Persephone">Persephone</a> resembled Isis's search for Osiris. Demeter was one of the few Greek deities to be widely adopted by Egyptians in Ptolemaic times, so the similarity between her and Isis provided a link between the two cultures.<sup id="cite_ref-96" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-96"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>92<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In other cases, Isis was linked with <a href="/wiki/Aphrodite" title="Aphrodite">Aphrodite</a> through the sexual aspects of her character.<sup id="cite_ref-97" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-97"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>93<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Building on these traditions, the first two Ptolemies promoted the cult of the new god <a href="/wiki/Serapis" title="Serapis">Serapis</a>, who combined aspects of Osiris and <a href="/wiki/Apis_(deity)" title="Apis (deity)">Apis</a> with those of Greek gods such as <a href="/wiki/Zeus" title="Zeus">Zeus</a> and <a href="/wiki/Dionysus" title="Dionysus">Dionysus</a>. Isis, portrayed in a <a href="/wiki/Hellenized" class="mw-redirect" title="Hellenized">Hellenized</a> form, was regarded as the consort of Serapis as well as of Osiris. <a href="/wiki/Ptolemy_II" class="mw-redirect" title="Ptolemy II">Ptolemy II</a> and his sister and wife <a href="/wiki/Arsinoe_II" title="Arsinoe II">Arsinoe II</a> developed a <a href="/wiki/Ruler_cult" class="mw-redirect" title="Ruler cult">ruler cult</a> around themselves, so that they were worshipped in the same temples as Serapis and Isis, and Arsinoe was likened to both Isis and Aphrodite.<sup id="cite_ref-98" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-98"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>94<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Some later Ptolemaic queens identified themselves still more closely with Isis. <a href="/wiki/Cleopatra_III" title="Cleopatra III">Cleopatra III</a>, in the second century BCE, used Isis's name in place of her own in inscriptions, and <a href="/wiki/Cleopatra_VII" class="mw-redirect" title="Cleopatra VII">Cleopatra VII</a>, the last ruler of Egypt before it was annexed by <a href="/wiki/Ancient_Rome" title="Ancient Rome">Rome</a>, used the epithet "the new Isis".<sup id="cite_ref-99" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-99"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>95<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Temples_and_festivals">Temples and festivals</h4></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:David_Roberts_Temple_Island_Philae.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="Painting of an island seen from across a river channel. On the island stand a series of stone buildings, gateways, and colonnades." src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d8/David_Roberts_Temple_Island_Philae.jpg/300px-David_Roberts_Temple_Island_Philae.jpg" decoding="async" width="300" height="217" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d8/David_Roberts_Temple_Island_Philae.jpg/450px-David_Roberts_Temple_Island_Philae.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d8/David_Roberts_Temple_Island_Philae.jpg/600px-David_Roberts_Temple_Island_Philae.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2100" data-file-height="1520" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Philae" class="mw-redirect" title="Philae">Philae</a> as seen from <a href="/wiki/Bigeh" title="Bigeh">Bigeh Island</a>, painted by <a href="/wiki/David_Roberts_(painter)" title="David Roberts (painter)">David Roberts</a> in 1838</figcaption></figure> <p>Down to the end of the New Kingdom, Isis's cult was closely tied to those of male deities such as Osiris, Min, or Amun. She was commonly worshipped alongside them as their mother or consort, and she was especially widely worshipped as the mother of various local forms of Horus.<sup id="cite_ref-100" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-100"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>96<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Nevertheless, she had independent priesthoods at some sites<sup id="cite_ref-101" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-101"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>97<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and at least one temple of her own, at Osiris's cult center of <a href="/wiki/Abydos,_Egypt" title="Abydos, Egypt">Abydos</a>, during the late New Kingdom.<sup id="cite_ref-102" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-102"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>98<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The earliest known major temples to Isis were the Iseion at <a href="/wiki/Behbeit_el-Hagar" class="mw-redirect" title="Behbeit el-Hagar">Behbeit el-Hagar</a> in northern Egypt and Philae in the far south. Both began construction during the Thirtieth Dynasty and were completed or enlarged by Ptolemaic kings.<sup id="cite_ref-103" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-103"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>99<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Thanks to Isis's widespread fame, Philae drew pilgrims from across the Mediterranean.<sup id="cite_ref-104" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-104"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>100<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Many other temples of Isis sprang up in Ptolemaic times, ranging from <a href="/wiki/Alexandria" title="Alexandria">Alexandria</a> and <a href="/wiki/Canopus,_Egypt" title="Canopus, Egypt">Canopus</a> on the Mediterranean coast to <a href="/wiki/Triakontaschoinos" title="Triakontaschoinos">Egypt's frontier with Nubia</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-105" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-105"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>101<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> A series of temples of Isis stood in that region, stretching from Philae south to <a href="/wiki/Maharraqa" class="mw-redirect" title="Maharraqa">Maharraqa</a>, and were sites of worship for both Egyptians and various Nubian peoples.<sup id="cite_ref-106" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-106"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>102<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The Nubians of Kush built their own temples to Isis at sites as far south as <a href="/wiki/Wad_ban_Naqa" title="Wad ban Naqa">Wad ban Naqa</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-107" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-107"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>103<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> including one in their capital, <a href="/wiki/Meroe" class="mw-redirect" title="Meroe">Meroe</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-108" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-108"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>104<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The most frequent temple rite for any deity was the daily offering ritual, in which priests clothed the deity's <a href="/wiki/Cult_image" title="Cult image">cult image</a> and offered it food.<sup id="cite_ref-109" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-109"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>105<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In Roman times, temples to Isis in Egypt could be built either in Egyptian style, in which the cult image was in a secluded sanctuary accessible only to priests, and in a Greco-Roman style in which devotees were allowed to see the cult image.<sup id="cite_ref-Dunand_&_Zivie-Coche_300_110-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Dunand_&_Zivie-Coche_300-110"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>106<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Greek and Egyptian culture were highly intermingled by this time, and there may have been no ethnic separation between Isis's worshippers.<sup id="cite_ref-111" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-111"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>107<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The same people may have prayed to Isis outside Egyptian-style temples and in front of her statue inside Greek-style temples.<sup id="cite_ref-Dunand_&_Zivie-Coche_300_110-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Dunand_&_Zivie-Coche_300-110"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>106<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Temples celebrated many festivals in the course of the year, some nationwide and some very local.<sup id="cite_ref-112" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-112"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>108<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> An elaborate series of rites were performed all across Egypt for Osiris during the month of <a href="/wiki/Khoiak" class="mw-redirect" title="Khoiak">Khoiak</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-113" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-113"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>109<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and Isis and Nephthys were prominent in these rites at least as early as the New Kingdom.<sup id="cite_ref-Lesko_172_114-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Lesko_172-114"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>110<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In Ptolemaic times, two women acted out the roles of Isis and Nephthys during Khoiak, singing or chanting in mourning for their dead brother. Their chants are preserved in the <a href="/wiki/Festival_Songs_of_Isis_and_Nephthys" title="Festival Songs of Isis and Nephthys">Festival Songs of Isis and Nephthys</a> and <a href="/w/index.php?title=Lamentations_of_Isis_and_Nephthys&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Lamentations of Isis and Nephthys (page does not exist)">Lamentations of Isis and Nephthys</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Lesko_172_114-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Lesko_172-114"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>110<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-115" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-115"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>111<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Festivals dedicated to Isis eventually developed. In Roman times, Egyptians across the country celebrated her birthday, the Amesysia, by carrying the local cult statue of Isis through their fields, probably celebrating her powers of fertility.<sup id="cite_ref-116" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-116"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>112<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The priests at Philae held a festival every ten days when the cult statue of Isis visited the neighboring island of <a href="/wiki/Bigeh" title="Bigeh">Bigeh</a>, which was said to be Osiris's place of burial, and the priests performed funerary rites for him. The cult statue also visited the neighboring temples to the south, even during the last centuries of activity at Philae when those temples were run by Nubian peoples outside Roman rule.<sup id="cite_ref-117" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-117"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>113<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><a href="/wiki/Christianity" title="Christianity">Christianity</a> became the dominant religion in the Roman Empire, including Egypt, during the fourth and fifth centuries CE. <a href="/wiki/Decline_of_ancient_Egyptian_religion" title="Decline of ancient Egyptian religion">Egyptian temple cults died out</a>, gradually and at various times, from a combination of lack of funds and Christian hostility.<sup id="cite_ref-118" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-118"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>114<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Isis's temple at Philae, supported by its Nubian worshippers, still had an organized priesthood and regular festivals until at least the mid-fifth century CE, making it the last fully functioning temple in Egypt.<sup id="cite_ref-Dijkstra_342_119-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Dijkstra_342-119"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>115<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-121" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-121"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>Note 5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Funerary">Funerary</h4></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Isis_and_Nepthys_as_kites_by_the_bier.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e4/Isis_and_Nepthys_as_kites_by_the_bier.jpg/300px-Isis_and_Nepthys_as_kites_by_the_bier.jpg" decoding="async" width="300" height="131" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e4/Isis_and_Nepthys_as_kites_by_the_bier.jpg/450px-Isis_and_Nepthys_as_kites_by_the_bier.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/e/e4/Isis_and_Nepthys_as_kites_by_the_bier.jpg/600px-Isis_and_Nepthys_as_kites_by_the_bier.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1024" data-file-height="446" /></a><figcaption>Isis, left, and <a href="/wiki/Nephthys" title="Nephthys">Nephthys</a> as <a href="/wiki/Kite_(bird)" title="Kite (bird)">kites</a> near the bier of a <a href="/wiki/Mummy" title="Mummy">mummy</a>, thirteenth century BCE</figcaption></figure><p> In many spells in the Pyramid Texts, Isis and Nephthys help the deceased king reach the afterlife. In the Coffin Texts from the Middle Kingdom, Isis appears still more frequently, though in these texts Osiris is credited with reviving the dead more often than she is. New Kingdom sources such as the <a href="/wiki/Book_of_the_Dead" title="Book of the Dead">Book of the Dead</a> describe Isis as protecting deceased souls as they face the dangers in the Duat. They also describe Isis as a member of the divine councils that judge souls' moral righteousness before admitting them into the afterlife, and she appears in vignettes standing beside Osiris as he presides over this tribunal.<sup id="cite_ref-122" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-122"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>117<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></p><div class="thumb tright"> <div class="thumbinner" style="width: 242px;"> <div class="thumbimage" style="width: 240px; height: 200px; overflow: hidden;"> <div style="position: relative; top: -65px; left: -30px; width: 330px"><div class="noresize"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Toutankamon-expo_36_cercueil-ext.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="Isis with her wings spread on the footend of the outer coffin of Tutankhamun." src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/47/Toutankamon-expo_36_cercueil-ext.JPG/330px-Toutankamon-expo_36_cercueil-ext.JPG" decoding="async" width="330" height="497" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/47/Toutankamon-expo_36_cercueil-ext.JPG/495px-Toutankamon-expo_36_cercueil-ext.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/47/Toutankamon-expo_36_cercueil-ext.JPG/660px-Toutankamon-expo_36_cercueil-ext.JPG 2x" data-file-width="2848" data-file-height="4288" /></a></span></div></div> </div> <div class="thumbcaption"> <div class="magnify"><a href="/wiki/File:Toutankamon-expo_36_cercueil-ext.JPG" title="File:Toutankamon-expo 36 cercueil-ext.JPG"> </a></div>Isis with her wings spread on the footend of the outer coffin of <a href="/wiki/Tutankhamun" title="Tutankhamun">Tutankhamun</a>. </div> </div> </div><p>Isis and Nephthys took part in funeral ceremonies, where two wailing women, much like those in the festival at Abydos, mourned the deceased as the two goddesses mourned Osiris.<sup id="cite_ref-123" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-123"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>118<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Isis was frequently shown or alluded to in funerary equipment: on sarcophagi and <a href="/wiki/Canopic_chest" title="Canopic chest">canopic chests</a> as one of the four goddesses who protected the Four Sons of Horus, in tomb art offering her enlivening milk to the dead, and in the <i>tyet</i> amulets that were often placed on mummies to ensure that Isis's power would shield them from harm.<sup id="cite_ref-124" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-124"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>119<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Late funerary texts prominently featured her mourning for Osiris, and one such text, one of the <a href="/wiki/Books_of_Breathing" title="Books of Breathing">Books of Breathing</a>, was said to have been written by her for Osiris's benefit.<sup id="cite_ref-125" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-125"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>120<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In Nubian funerary religion, Isis was regarded as more significant than her husband, because she was the active partner while he only passively received the offerings she made to sustain him in the afterlife.<sup id="cite_ref-126" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-126"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>121<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Popular_worship">Popular worship</h4></div> <p>Unlike many Egyptian deities, Isis was rarely addressed in prayers,<sup id="cite_ref-127" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-127"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>122<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> or invoked in <a href="/wiki/Theophoric_name" title="Theophoric name">personal names</a>, before the end of the New Kingdom.<sup id="cite_ref-128" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-128"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>123<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> From the Late Period on, she became one of the deities most commonly mentioned in these sources, which often refer to her kindly character and her willingness to answer those who call upon her for help.<sup id="cite_ref-129" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-129"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>124<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Hundreds of thousands of amulets and votive statues of Isis nursing Horus were made during the first millennium BCE,<sup id="cite_ref-130" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-130"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>125<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and in Roman Egypt she was among the deities most commonly represented in household religious art, such as figurines and panel paintings.<sup id="cite_ref-131" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-131"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>126<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Isis was prominent in magical texts from the Middle Kingdom onward. The dangers Horus faces in childhood are a frequent theme in magical healing spells, in which Isis's efforts to heal him are extended to cure any patient. In many of these spells, Isis forces Ra to help Horus by declaring that she will stop the sun in its course through the sky unless her son is cured.<sup id="cite_ref-132" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-132"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>127<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Other spells equated pregnant women with Isis to ensure that they would deliver their children successfully.<sup id="cite_ref-133" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-133"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>128<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Egyptian magic began to incorporate Christian concepts as Christianity was established in Egypt, but Egyptian and Greek deities continued to appear in spells long after their temple worship had ceased.<sup id="cite_ref-134" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-134"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>129<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Spells that may date to the sixth, seventh, or eighth centuries CE invoke the name of Isis alongside Christian figures.<sup id="cite_ref-135" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-135"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>130<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="In_the_Greco-Roman_world">In the Greco-Roman world</h2></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Spread">Spread</h3></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Temple_of_Isis,_Delos_02.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="A hillside littered with broken columns. An intact set of columns, supporting a pediment, still stand." src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/85/Temple_of_Isis%2C_Delos_02.jpg/220px-Temple_of_Isis%2C_Delos_02.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="154" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/85/Temple_of_Isis%2C_Delos_02.jpg/330px-Temple_of_Isis%2C_Delos_02.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/85/Temple_of_Isis%2C_Delos_02.jpg/440px-Temple_of_Isis%2C_Delos_02.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3268" data-file-height="2289" /></a><figcaption>The remains of the temple of Isis on <a href="/wiki/Delos" title="Delos">Delos</a></figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Tempio_di_Iside_12.JPG" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8c/Tempio_di_Iside_12.JPG/220px-Tempio_di_Iside_12.JPG" decoding="async" width="220" height="165" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8c/Tempio_di_Iside_12.JPG/330px-Tempio_di_Iside_12.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8c/Tempio_di_Iside_12.JPG/440px-Tempio_di_Iside_12.JPG 2x" data-file-width="2048" data-file-height="1536" /></a><figcaption>The <a href="/wiki/Temple_of_Isis_(Pompeii)" title="Temple of Isis (Pompeii)">Temple of Isis</a> in <a href="/wiki/Pompeii" title="Pompeii">Pompeii</a></figcaption></figure> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Cossura_Isis_bronze_coin.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/59/Cossura_Isis_bronze_coin.jpg/220px-Cossura_Isis_bronze_coin.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="110" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/59/Cossura_Isis_bronze_coin.jpg/330px-Cossura_Isis_bronze_coin.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/59/Cossura_Isis_bronze_coin.jpg/440px-Cossura_Isis_bronze_coin.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1000" data-file-height="500" /></a><figcaption><a href="/wiki/Cossura" class="mw-redirect" title="Cossura">Cossura</a> bronze coin showing a portrait of Isis with <a href="/wiki/Punic_language" title="Punic language">Punic</a> legend</figcaption></figure> <p>Cults based in a particular city or nation were the norm across the ancient world until the mid- to late first millennium BCE, when increased contact between different cultures allowed some cults to spread more widely. Greeks were aware of Egyptian deities, including Isis, at least as early as the <a href="/wiki/Archaic_Greece" title="Archaic Greece">Archaic Period</a> (<abbr title="circa">c.</abbr><span style="white-space:nowrap;"> 700</span>–480 BCE), and her first known temple in Greece was built during or before the fourth century BCE by Egyptians living in <a href="/wiki/Athens" title="Athens">Athens</a>. The <a href="/wiki/Wars_of_Alexander_the_Great" title="Wars of Alexander the Great">conquests of Alexander the Great</a> late in that century created Hellenistic kingdoms around the Mediterranean and Near East, including Ptolemaic Egypt, and put Greek and non-Greek religions in much closer contact. The resulting <a href="/wiki/Trans-cultural_diffusion" class="mw-redirect" title="Trans-cultural diffusion">diffusion of cultures</a> allowed many religious traditions to spread across the Hellenistic world in the last three centuries BCE. The new mobile cults adapted greatly to appeal to people from a variety of cultures. The cults of Isis and Serapis were among those that expanded in this way.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWoolf201473–79_136-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEWoolf201473–79-136"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>131<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Spread by merchants and other Mediterranean travelers, the cults of Isis and Serapis were established in Greek port cities at the end of the fourth century BCE and expanded throughout Greece and Asia Minor during the third and second centuries. The Greek island of <a href="/wiki/Delos" title="Delos">Delos</a> was an early cult center for both deities, and its status as a trading center made it a springboard for the Egyptian cults to diffuse into Italy.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBommas2012428–429_137-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBommas2012428–429-137"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>132<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Isis and Serapis were also worshipped at scattered sites in the <a href="/wiki/Seleucid_Empire" title="Seleucid Empire">Seleucid Empire</a>, the Hellenistic kingdom in the Middle East, as far east as <a href="/wiki/Iran" title="Iran">Iran</a>, though they disappeared from the region as the Seleucids lost their eastern territory to the <a href="/wiki/Parthian_Empire" title="Parthian Empire">Parthian Empire</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMa2014133–134_138-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMa2014133–134-138"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>133<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Greeks regarded Egyptian religion as exotic and sometimes bizarre, yet full of ancient wisdom.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEHornung200119–25_139-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHornung200119–25-139"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>134<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Like other cults from the eastern regions of the Mediterranean, the cult of Isis attracted Greeks and Romans by playing upon its exotic origins,<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBremmer2014140–141_140-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBremmer2014140–141-140"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>135<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> but the form it took after reaching Greece was heavily Hellenized.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBommas2012431–432_141-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBommas2012431–432-141"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>136<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Isis's cult reached Italy and the Roman sphere of influence at some point in the second century BCE.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEVersluys2004443–447_142-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEVersluys2004443–447-142"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>137<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It was one of many cults that were introduced to Rome as the <a href="/wiki/Roman_Republic" title="Roman Republic">Roman Republic</a>'s territory expanded in the last centuries BCE. Authorities in the Republic tried to define which cults were acceptable and which were not, as a way of defining <a href="/wiki/Romanitas" title="Romanitas">Roman cultural identity</a> amid the cultural changes brought on by Rome's expansion.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEOrlin20103–7_143-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEOrlin20103–7-143"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>138<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In Isis's case, shrines and altars to her were set up on the <a href="/wiki/Capitoline_Hill" title="Capitoline Hill">Capitoline Hill</a>, at the heart of the city, by private persons in the early first century BCE.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEVersluys2004443–447_142-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEVersluys2004443–447-142"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>137<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The independence of her cult from the control of Roman authorities made it potentially unsettling to them.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBeardNorthPrice1998161_144-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBeardNorthPrice1998161-144"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>139<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In the 50s and 40s BCE, when the <a href="/wiki/Crisis_of_the_Roman_Republic" title="Crisis of the Roman Republic">crisis of the Roman Republic</a> made many Romans fear that <a href="/wiki/Pax_deorum" class="mw-redirect" title="Pax deorum">peace among the gods</a> was being disrupted, the <a href="/wiki/Roman_Senate" title="Roman Senate">Roman Senate</a> destroyed these shrines,<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTETakács199564–67_145-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETakács199564–67-145"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>140<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEOrlin2010204–207_146-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEOrlin2010204–207-146"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>141<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> although it did not ban Isis from the city outright.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEVersluys2004443–447_142-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEVersluys2004443–447-142"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>137<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Egyptian cults faced further hostility during the <a href="/wiki/Final_War_of_the_Roman_Republic" class="mw-redirect" title="Final War of the Roman Republic">Final War of the Roman Republic</a> (32–30 BCE), when Rome, led by <a href="/wiki/Octavian" class="mw-redirect" title="Octavian">Octavian</a>, the future <a href="/wiki/Roman_emperor" title="Roman emperor">emperor</a> Augustus, fought <a href="/wiki/Reign_of_Cleopatra_VII" class="mw-redirect" title="Reign of Cleopatra VII">Egypt under Cleopatra VII</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEDonalson2003124–125_147-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEDonalson2003124–125-147"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>142<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> After Octavian's victory, he banned shrines to Isis and Serapis within the <i><a href="/wiki/Pomerium" title="Pomerium">pomerium</a></i>, the city's innermost, sacred boundary, but allowed them in parts of the city outside the <i>pomerium</i>, thus marking Egyptian deities as non-Roman but acceptable to Rome.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEOrlin2010211_148-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEOrlin2010211-148"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>143<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Despite being temporarily expelled from Rome during the reign of <a href="/wiki/Tiberius" title="Tiberius">Tiberius</a> (14–37 CE),<sup id="cite_ref-150" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-150"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>Note 6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> the Egyptian cults gradually became an accepted part of the Roman religious landscape. The <a href="/wiki/Flavian_emperors" class="mw-redirect" title="Flavian emperors">Flavian emperors</a> in the late first century CE treated Serapis and Isis as patrons of their rule in much the same manner as traditional Roman deities such as <a href="/wiki/Jupiter_(mythology)" class="mw-redirect" title="Jupiter (mythology)">Jupiter</a> and <a href="/wiki/Minerva" title="Minerva">Minerva</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEDonalson2003138–139,_159–162_151-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEDonalson2003138–139,_159–162-151"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>145<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Even as it was being integrated into Roman culture, Isis's worship developed new features that emphasized its Egyptian background.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWild1981149–151_152-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEWild1981149–151-152"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>146<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBommas2012431_153-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBommas2012431-153"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>147<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The cults also expanded into Rome's western <a href="/wiki/Roman_province" title="Roman province">provinces</a>, beginning along the Mediterranean coast in early imperial times. At their peak in the late second and early third centuries CE, Isis and Serapis were worshipped in most towns across the western empire, though without much presence in the countryside.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBricault2000206_154-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBricault2000206-154"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>148<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Their temples were found from <a href="/wiki/Petra" title="Petra">Petra</a> and <a href="/wiki/Palmyra" title="Palmyra">Palmyra</a>, in the <a href="/wiki/Arabia_Petraea" title="Arabia Petraea">Arabian</a> and <a href="/wiki/Syria_(Roman_province)" class="mw-redirect" title="Syria (Roman province)">Syrian</a> provinces, to <a href="/wiki/Italica" title="Italica">Italica</a> in <a href="/wiki/Hispania" title="Hispania">Spain</a> and <a href="/wiki/Londinium" title="Londinium">Londinium</a> in <a href="/wiki/Roman_Britain" title="Roman Britain">Britain</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBricault2001174–179_155-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBricault2001174–179-155"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>149<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> By this time they were on a comparable footing with native Roman deities.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEDonalson2003177,_180–182_156-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEDonalson2003177,_180–182-156"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>150<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Roles_2">Roles</h3></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Marble_statue_of_Isis,_the_goddess_holds_a_situla_and_sistrum,_ritual_implements_used_in_her_worship,_from_117_until_138_AD,_found_at_Hadrian%27s_Villa_(Pantanello),_Palazzo_Nuovo,_Capitoline_Museums_(12945630725).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="Marble staue of a woman holding a rattle in one hand and a pitcher in the other." src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cc/Marble_statue_of_Isis%2C_the_goddess_holds_a_situla_and_sistrum%2C_ritual_implements_used_in_her_worship%2C_from_117_until_138_AD%2C_found_at_Hadrian%27s_Villa_%28Pantanello%29%2C_Palazzo_Nuovo%2C_Capitoline_Museums_%2812945630725%29.jpg/220px-thumbnail.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="371" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cc/Marble_statue_of_Isis%2C_the_goddess_holds_a_situla_and_sistrum%2C_ritual_implements_used_in_her_worship%2C_from_117_until_138_AD%2C_found_at_Hadrian%27s_Villa_%28Pantanello%29%2C_Palazzo_Nuovo%2C_Capitoline_Museums_%2812945630725%29.jpg/330px-thumbnail.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cc/Marble_statue_of_Isis%2C_the_goddess_holds_a_situla_and_sistrum%2C_ritual_implements_used_in_her_worship%2C_from_117_until_138_AD%2C_found_at_Hadrian%27s_Villa_%28Pantanello%29%2C_Palazzo_Nuovo%2C_Capitoline_Museums_%2812945630725%29.jpg/440px-thumbnail.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2878" data-file-height="4851" /></a><figcaption>Roman statue of Isis, first or second century CE. She holds a <a href="/wiki/Sistrum" title="Sistrum">sistrum</a> and a pitcher of water, although these attributes were added in a seventeenth-century renovation.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTETiradritti200521,_212_157-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETiradritti200521,_212-157"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>151<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></figcaption></figure> <p>Isis's cult, like others in the Greco-Roman world, had no firm <a href="/wiki/Dogma" title="Dogma">dogma</a>, and its beliefs and practices may have stayed only loosely similar as it diffused across the region and evolved over time.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBeardNorthPrice1998248–249,_301–303_158-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBeardNorthPrice1998248–249,_301–303-158"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>152<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEAlvar2008216–217_159-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEAlvar2008216–217-159"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>153<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Greek <a href="/wiki/Aretalogies" class="mw-redirect" title="Aretalogies">aretalogies</a> that praise Isis provide much of the information about these beliefs. Parts of these aretalogies closely resemble ideas in late Egyptian hymns like those at Philae, while other elements are thoroughly Greek.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEŽabkar1988135–137,_159–160_160-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEŽabkar1988135–137,_159–160-160"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>154<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Other information comes from <a href="/wiki/Plutarch" title="Plutarch">Plutarch</a> (<abbr title="circa">c.</abbr><span style="white-space:nowrap;"> 46</span>–120 CE), whose book <i>On Isis and Osiris</i> interprets the Egyptian deities based on his <a href="/wiki/Middle_Platonist" class="mw-redirect" title="Middle Platonist">Middle Platonist</a> philosophy,<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEAlvar200839–40_161-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEAlvar200839–40-161"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>155<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and from several works of <a href="/wiki/Greek_literature" title="Greek literature">Greek</a> and <a href="/wiki/Latin_literature" title="Latin literature">Latin literature</a> that refer to Isis's worship, especially a novel by <a href="/wiki/Apuleius" title="Apuleius">Apuleius</a> (<abbr title="circa">c.</abbr><span style="white-space:nowrap;"> 125</span>–180 CE) known as <i>Metamorphoses</i> or <i><a href="/wiki/The_Golden_Ass" title="The Golden Ass">The Golden Ass</a></i>, which ends by describing how the main character has a vision of the goddess and becomes her devotee.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEDonalson200317–18_162-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEDonalson200317–18-162"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>156<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Elaborating upon Isis's role as a wife and mother in the Osiris myth, aretalogies call her the inventor of marriage and parenthood. She was invoked to protect women in childbirth and, in <a href="/wiki/Ancient_Greek_novel" title="Ancient Greek novel">ancient Greek novels</a> such as the <i><a href="/wiki/Ephesian_Tale" title="Ephesian Tale">Ephesian Tale</a></i>, to protect their virginity.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEHeyob197548–50,_66–70_163-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHeyob197548–50,_66–70-163"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>157<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Some ancient texts called her the patroness of women in general.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEHeyob197553_164-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHeyob197553-164"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>158<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEKraemer199274_165-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEKraemer199274-165"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>159<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Her cult may have served to promote women's autonomy in a limited way, with Isis's power and authority serving as a precedent, but in myth she was devoted to, and never fully independent of, her husband and son. The aretalogies show ambiguous attitudes toward women's independence: one says Isis made women equal to men, whereas another says she made women subordinate to their husbands.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEKraemer199276–77_166-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEKraemer199276–77-166"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>160<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEAlvar2008190–192_167-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEAlvar2008190–192-167"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>161<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Isis was often characterized as a moon goddess, paralleling the solar characteristics of Serapis.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTESfameni_Gasparro200743_168-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESfameni_Gasparro200743-168"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>162<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> She was also seen as a cosmic goddess more generally. Various texts claim she organized the behavior of the sun, moon, and stars, governing time and the seasons which, in turn, guaranteed the fertility of the earth.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEPachis2010307–313_169-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEPachis2010307–313-169"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>163<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> These texts also credit her with inventing agriculture, establishing laws, and devising or promoting other elements of human society. This idea derives from older Greek traditions about the role of various Greek deities and <a href="/wiki/Culture_heroes" class="mw-redirect" title="Culture heroes">culture heroes</a>, including Demeter, in establishing civilization.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTESolmsen197934–35,_40–43_170-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESolmsen197934–35,_40–43-170"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>164<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>She also oversaw seas and harbors. Sailors left inscriptions calling upon her to ensure the safety and good fortune of their voyages. In this role she was called <i>Isis Pelagia</i>, "Isis of the Sea", or <i>Isis Pharia</i>, referring to a sail or to the island of Pharos, site of the <a href="/wiki/Lighthouse_of_Alexandria" title="Lighthouse of Alexandria">Lighthouse of Alexandria</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEDonalson200368,_74–75_171-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEDonalson200368,_74–75-171"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>165<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This form of Isis, which emerged in Hellenistic times, may have been inspired by Egyptian images of Isis in a barque, as well as by Greek deities who protected seafaring, such as Aphrodite.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEAlvar2008296–300_172-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEAlvar2008296–300-172"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>166<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTELegras201496–97_173-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTELegras201496–97-173"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>167<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <i>Isis Pelagia</i> developed an added significance in Rome. Rome's food supply was dependent on <a href="/wiki/Cura_Annonae" class="mw-redirect" title="Cura Annonae">grain shipments from its provinces</a>, especially Egypt. Isis therefore guaranteed fertile harvests and protected the ships that carried the resulting food across the seas—and thus ensured the <a href="/wiki/Salus" title="Salus">well-being of the empire</a> as a whole.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEPachis2010283–286_174-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEPachis2010283–286-174"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>168<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Her protection of the state was said to extend to Rome's armies, much as it was in Ptolemaic Egypt, and she was sometimes called <i>Isis Invicta</i>, "Unconquered Isis".<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEDonalson2003177–178_175-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEDonalson2003177–178-175"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>169<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Her roles were so numerous that she came to be called <i>myrionymos</i>, "one with countless names," and <i>panthea</i>, "all-goddess".<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEDonalson200310_176-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEDonalson200310-176"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>170<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Both Plutarch and a later philosopher, <a href="/wiki/Proclus" title="Proclus">Proclus</a>, mentioned a <a href="/wiki/Veil_of_Isis" title="Veil of Isis">veiled statue</a> of the Egyptian goddess <a href="/wiki/Neith" title="Neith">Neith</a>, whom they conflated with Isis, citing it as an example of her universality and enigmatic wisdom. It bore the words "I am all that has been and is and will be; and no mortal has ever lifted my mantle."<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGriffiths1970131,_284–285_177-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGriffiths1970131,_284–285-177"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>171<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-180" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-180"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>Note 7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Isis was also said to benefit her followers in the afterlife, which was not much emphasized in Greek and Roman religion.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBeardNorthPrice1998289–290_181-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBeardNorthPrice1998289–290-181"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>174<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <i>The Golden Ass</i> and inscriptions left by worshippers of Isis suggest that many of her followers thought she would guarantee them a better afterlife in return for their devotion. They characterized this afterlife inconsistently. Some said they would benefit from Osiris's enlivening water while others expected to sail to the <a href="/wiki/Fortunate_Isles" title="Fortunate Isles">Fortunate Isles</a> of Greek tradition.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGasparini2016135–137_182-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGasparini2016135–137-182"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>175<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>As in Egypt, 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 destiny binds together Isis's disparate traits. She governs the cosmos, yet she also relieves people of their comparatively trivial misfortunes, and her influence extends into the realm of death, which is "individual and universal at the same time".<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGasparini2011700,_716–717_183-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGasparini2011700,_716–717-183"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>176<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Relationships_with_other_deities">Relationships with other deities</h3></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Pompeii_-_Temple_of_Isis_-_Io_and_Isis_-_MAN.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="Fresco of a seated woman with a cobra wrapped around her arm grasping the hand of a standing woman with small horns on her head" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7d/Pompeii_-_Temple_of_Isis_-_Io_and_Isis_-_MAN.jpg/220px-Pompeii_-_Temple_of_Isis_-_Io_and_Isis_-_MAN.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="178" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7d/Pompeii_-_Temple_of_Isis_-_Io_and_Isis_-_MAN.jpg/330px-Pompeii_-_Temple_of_Isis_-_Io_and_Isis_-_MAN.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7d/Pompeii_-_Temple_of_Isis_-_Io_and_Isis_-_MAN.jpg/440px-Pompeii_-_Temple_of_Isis_-_Io_and_Isis_-_MAN.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2776" data-file-height="2249" /></a><figcaption>Isis welcoming <a href="/wiki/Io_(mythology)" title="Io (mythology)">Io</a> to Egypt, from a fresco at <a href="/wiki/Pompeii" title="Pompeii">Pompeii</a>, first century CE</figcaption></figure> <p>More than a dozen Egyptian deities were worshipped outside Egypt in Hellenistic and Roman times in a series of interrelated cults, though many were fairly minor.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEVersluys20073–4_184-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEVersluys20073–4-184"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>177<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Of the most important of these deities, Serapis was closely connected with Isis and often appeared with her in art, but Osiris remained central to her myth and prominent in her rituals.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTETakács199528–29_185-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETakács199528–29-185"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>178<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Temples to Isis and Serapis sometimes stood next to each other, but it was rare for a single temple to be dedicated to both.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTERenberg2017331_186-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERenberg2017331-186"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>179<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Osiris, as a dead deity unlike the immortal gods of Greece, seemed strange to Greeks and played only a minor role in Egyptian cults in Hellenistic times. In Roman times he became, like Dionysus, a symbol of a joyous afterlife, and the Isis cult increasingly focused on him.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBommas2012425,_430–431_187-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBommas2012425,_430–431-187"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>180<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Horus, often under the name <a href="/wiki/Harpocrates" title="Harpocrates">Harpocrates</a>, also appeared in Isis's temples as her son by Osiris or Serapis. He absorbed traits from Greek deities such as <a href="/wiki/Apollo" title="Apollo">Apollo</a> and served as a god of the sun and of crops.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWitt1997210–212_188-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEWitt1997210–212-188"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>181<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Another member of the group was Anubis, who was linked to the Greek god <a href="/wiki/Hermes" title="Hermes">Hermes</a> in his Hellenized form <a href="/wiki/Hermanubis" title="Hermanubis">Hermanubis</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWitt1997198–203_189-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEWitt1997198–203-189"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>182<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Isis was also sometimes said to have learned her wisdom from, or even be the daughter of, <a href="/wiki/Thoth" title="Thoth">Thoth</a>, the Egyptian god of writing and knowledge, who was known in the Greco-Roman world as <a href="/wiki/Hermes_Trismegistus" title="Hermes Trismegistus">Hermes Trismegistus</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWitt1997206–207_190-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEWitt1997206–207-190"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>183<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGriffiths1970263_191-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGriffiths1970263-191"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>184<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Isis also had an extensive network of connections with Greek and Roman deities, as well as some from other cultures. She was not fully integrated into the Greek pantheon, but she was at different times equated with a variety of Greek mythological figures, including Demeter, Aphrodite, or <a href="/wiki/Io_(mythology)" title="Io (mythology)">Io</a>, a human woman who was turned into a cow and chased by the goddess <a href="/wiki/Hera" title="Hera">Hera</a> from Greece to Egypt.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTESolmsen197916–19,_53–57_192-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESolmsen197916–19,_53–57-192"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>185<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The cult of Demeter was an especially important influence on Isis's worship after its arrival in Greece.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEPakkanen199691,_94–100_193-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEPakkanen199691,_94–100-193"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>186<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Isis's relationship with women was influenced by her frequent equation with Artemis, who had a dual role as a virgin goddess and a promoter of fertility.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEHeyob197572–73_194-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHeyob197572–73-194"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>187<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Because of Isis's power over fate, she was linked with the Greek and Roman personifications of fortune, <a href="/wiki/Tyche" title="Tyche">Tyche</a> and <a href="/wiki/Fortuna" title="Fortuna">Fortuna</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEDonalson20038_195-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEDonalson20038-195"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>188<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> At <a href="/wiki/Byblos" title="Byblos">Byblos</a> in <a href="/wiki/Phoenicia" title="Phoenicia">Phoenicia</a> in the second millennium BCE, Hathor had been worshipped as a form of the local goddess <a href="/wiki/Baalat_Gebal" title="Baalat Gebal">Baalat Gebal</a>. Isis gradually replaced Hathor there in the course of the first millennium BCE<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEHollis20093–5_196-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHollis20093–5-196"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>189<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and became syncretized with another goddess from the region, <a href="/wiki/Astarte" title="Astarte">Astarte</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGriffiths1970326_197-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGriffiths1970326-197"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>190<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In <a href="/wiki/Noricum" title="Noricum">Noricum</a> in central Europe, Isis was syncretized with the local <a href="/wiki/Tutelary_deity" title="Tutelary deity">tutelary deity</a> Noreia,<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWoolf201484_198-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEWoolf201484-198"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>191<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and at Petra she may have been linked with the Arab goddess <a href="/wiki/Al-Uzza" title="Al-Uzza">al-Uzza</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTELahelmaFiema2008209–211_199-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTELahelmaFiema2008209–211-199"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>192<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The Roman author <a href="/wiki/Tacitus" title="Tacitus">Tacitus</a> said <a href="/wiki/%22Isis%22_of_the_Suebi" title=""Isis" of the Suebi">Isis was worshipped by the Suebi</a>, a <a href="/wiki/Germanic_people" class="mw-redirect" title="Germanic people">Germanic people</a> living outside the empire, but he may have mistaken a <a href="/wiki/Germanic_deities" class="mw-redirect" title="Germanic deities">Germanic goddess</a> for Isis because, like her, the goddess was symbolized by a ship.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTERives199980,_162_200-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERives199980,_162-200"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>193<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Many of the aretalogies include long lists of goddesses with whom Isis was linked. These texts treat all the deities they list as forms of her, suggesting that in the eyes of the authors she was a summodeistic being: the one goddess for the entire <a href="/wiki/Oecumene" class="mw-redirect" title="Oecumene">civilized world</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTESfameni_Gasparro200754–56_201-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESfameni_Gasparro200754–56-201"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>194<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTESmith2010243–246_202-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESmith2010243–246-202"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>195<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In the Roman religious world, many deities were referred to as "one" or "unique" in religious texts like these. At the same time, <a href="/wiki/Hellenistic_philosophers" class="mw-redirect" title="Hellenistic philosophers">Hellenistic philosophers</a> frequently saw the unifying, abstract principle of the cosmos as divine. Many of them reinterpreted traditional religions to fit their concept of this highest being, as Plutarch did with Isis and Osiris.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEVan_Nuffelen201017–21,_26–27_203-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEVan_Nuffelen201017–21,_26–27-203"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>196<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In <i>The Golden Ass</i> Isis says "my one person manifests the aspects of all the gods and goddesses" and that she is "worshipped by all the world under different forms, with various rites, and by manifold names," although the Egyptians and Nubians use her true name, Isis.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEHanson1989299_204-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHanson1989299-204"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>197<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGriffiths1975154–155_205-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGriffiths1975154–155-205"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>198<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> But when she lists the forms in which various Mediterranean peoples worship her, she mentions only female deities.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGriffiths1975143–144_206-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGriffiths1975143–144-206"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>199<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Greco-Roman deities were firmly divided by gender, thus limiting how universal Isis could truly be. One aretalogy avoids this problem by calling Isis and Serapis, who was often said to subsume many male gods, the two "unique" deities.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEVersnel2011299–301_207-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEVersnel2011299–301-207"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>200<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBelayche2010151–152_208-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBelayche2010151–152-208"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>201<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Similarly, both Plutarch and Apuleius limit Isis's importance by treating her as ultimately subordinate to Osiris.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGasparini2011706–708_209-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGasparini2011706–708-209"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>202<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The claim that she was unique was meant to emphasize her greatness more than to make a precise theological statement.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEVersnel2011299–301_207-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEVersnel2011299–301-207"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>200<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBelayche2010151–152_208-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBelayche2010151–152-208"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>201<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Iconography_2">Iconography</h3></div> <p>Images of Isis made outside Egypt were Hellenistic in style, like many of the images of her made in Egypt in Hellenistic and Roman times. The attributes she bore varied widely.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBianchi2007480–482,_494_210-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBianchi2007480–482,_494-210"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>203<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> She sometimes wore the Hathoric cow-horn headdress, but Greeks and Romans reduced its size and often interpreted it as a crescent moon.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEDelia1998542–543_211-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEDelia1998542–543-211"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>204<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> She could also wear headdresses incorporating leaves, flowers, or ears of grain.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGriffiths1975124–126_212-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGriffiths1975124–126-212"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>205<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Other common traits included corkscrew locks of hair and an elaborate mantle tied in a large knot over the breasts, which originated in ordinary Egyptian clothing but was treated as a symbol of the goddess outside Egypt.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWalters19885–7_213-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEWalters19885–7-213"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>206<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-215" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-215"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>Note 8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In her hands she could carry a uraeus or a sistrum, both taken from her Egyptian iconography,<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGriffiths1975132–135_216-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGriffiths1975132–135-216"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>208<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> or a <a href="/wiki/Situla" title="Situla">situla</a>, a vessel used for <a href="/wiki/Libation" title="Libation">libations</a> of water or milk that were performed in Isis's cult.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWalters198820–25_217-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEWalters198820–25-217"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>209<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>As Isis-Fortuna or Isis-Tyche she held a rudder, representing control of fate, in her right hand and a <a href="/wiki/Cornucopia" title="Cornucopia">cornucopia</a>, standing for abundance, in her left.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEDonalson20036–7_218-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEDonalson20036–7-218"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>210<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> As Isis Pharia she wore a cloak that billowed behind her like a sail, and as Isis Lactans, she nursed Harpocrates.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEDonalson20036–7,_74_219-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEDonalson20036–7,_74-219"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>211<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> At times she was shown resting a foot on a <a href="/wiki/Celestial_sphere" title="Celestial sphere">celestial sphere</a>, representing her control of the cosmos.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEPachis2010305–306_220-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEPachis2010305–306-220"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>212<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The diverse imagery sprang from her varied roles; as Robert Steven Bianchi says, "Isis could represent anything to anyone and could be represented in any way imaginable."<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBianchi2007494_221-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBianchi2007494-221"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>213<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <ul class="gallery mw-gallery-traditional"> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 235px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 230px; height: 250px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Estatuas_del_Canope_de_Villa_Adriana_01.JPG" class="mw-file-description" title="Bust of Isis-Sothis-Demeter from Hadrian's Villa, second century CE"><img alt="Bust of a woman set in a niche" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/72/Estatuas_del_Canope_de_Villa_Adriana_01.JPG/165px-Estatuas_del_Canope_de_Villa_Adriana_01.JPG" decoding="async" width="165" height="220" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/72/Estatuas_del_Canope_de_Villa_Adriana_01.JPG/247px-Estatuas_del_Canope_de_Villa_Adriana_01.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/72/Estatuas_del_Canope_de_Villa_Adriana_01.JPG/330px-Estatuas_del_Canope_de_Villa_Adriana_01.JPG 2x" data-file-width="2448" data-file-height="3264" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Bust of Isis-<a href="/wiki/Sothis" class="mw-redirect" title="Sothis">Sothis</a>-<a href="/wiki/Demeter" title="Demeter">Demeter</a> from <a href="/wiki/Hadrian%27s_Villa" title="Hadrian's Villa">Hadrian's Villa</a>, second century CE</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 235px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 230px; height: 250px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Detail_of_Persephone-Isis,_Statue_group_of_Persephone_(as_Isis)_and_Pluto_(as_Serapis),_from_the_Sanctuary_of_the_Egyptian_Gods_at_Gortyna,_mid-2nd_century_AD,_Heraklion_Archaeological_Museum_(30391383045).jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Statue of Isis-Persephone with corkscrew locks of hair and a sistrum, from Gortyna, second century CE"><img alt="Life-size statue of a woman" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/23/Detail_of_Persephone-Isis%2C_Statue_group_of_Persephone_%28as_Isis%29_and_Pluto_%28as_Serapis%29%2C_from_the_Sanctuary_of_the_Egyptian_Gods_at_Gortyna%2C_mid-2nd_century_AD%2C_Heraklion_Archaeological_Museum_%2830391383045%29.jpg/111px-thumbnail.jpg" decoding="async" width="111" height="220" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/23/Detail_of_Persephone-Isis%2C_Statue_group_of_Persephone_%28as_Isis%29_and_Pluto_%28as_Serapis%29%2C_from_the_Sanctuary_of_the_Egyptian_Gods_at_Gortyna%2C_mid-2nd_century_AD%2C_Heraklion_Archaeological_Museum_%2830391383045%29.jpg/167px-thumbnail.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/23/Detail_of_Persephone-Isis%2C_Statue_group_of_Persephone_%28as_Isis%29_and_Pluto_%28as_Serapis%29%2C_from_the_Sanctuary_of_the_Egyptian_Gods_at_Gortyna%2C_mid-2nd_century_AD%2C_Heraklion_Archaeological_Museum_%2830391383045%29.jpg/223px-thumbnail.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2408" data-file-height="4749" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Statue of Isis-<a href="/wiki/Persephone" title="Persephone">Persephone</a> with corkscrew locks of hair and a sistrum, from <a href="/wiki/Gortyna" title="Gortyna">Gortyna</a>, second century CE</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 235px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 230px; height: 250px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Isis-Aphrodite_Petit_Palais_ADUT01910.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Isis-Aphrodite, polychrome terracotta, Alexandria, first century CE"><img alt="Isis-Aphrodite, polychrome terracotta, Alexandria, first century CE" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f4/Isis-Aphrodite_Petit_Palais_ADUT01910.jpg/122px-Isis-Aphrodite_Petit_Palais_ADUT01910.jpg" decoding="async" width="122" height="220" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f4/Isis-Aphrodite_Petit_Palais_ADUT01910.jpg/183px-Isis-Aphrodite_Petit_Palais_ADUT01910.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f4/Isis-Aphrodite_Petit_Palais_ADUT01910.jpg/244px-Isis-Aphrodite_Petit_Palais_ADUT01910.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1520" data-file-height="2740" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Isis-Aphrodite, <a href="/wiki/Polychrome" title="Polychrome">polychrome</a> terracotta, <a href="/wiki/Alexandria" title="Alexandria">Alexandria</a>, first century CE</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 235px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 230px; height: 250px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Isis-Fortuna_Walters_54751.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Bronze figurine of Isis-Fortuna with a cornucopia and a rudder, first century CE"><img alt="Metal figurine of a woman" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/df/Isis-Fortuna_Walters_54751.jpg/136px-Isis-Fortuna_Walters_54751.jpg" decoding="async" width="136" height="220" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/df/Isis-Fortuna_Walters_54751.jpg/204px-Isis-Fortuna_Walters_54751.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/df/Isis-Fortuna_Walters_54751.jpg/273px-Isis-Fortuna_Walters_54751.jpg 2x" data-file-width="962" data-file-height="1551" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Bronze figurine of Isis-<a href="/wiki/Fortuna" title="Fortuna">Fortuna</a> with a <a href="/wiki/Cornucopia" title="Cornucopia">cornucopia</a> and a rudder, first century CE</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 235px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 230px; height: 250px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:MANNapoli_8836_Isis_Fortune_painting.jpg" class="mw-file-description" title="Fresco of Isis wearing a crescent headdress and resting her foot on a celestial sphere, first century CE"><img alt="Fresco of a woman standing with her foot on a blue sphere" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5b/MANNapoli_8836_Isis_Fortune_painting.jpg/200px-MANNapoli_8836_Isis_Fortune_painting.jpg" decoding="async" width="200" height="190" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5b/MANNapoli_8836_Isis_Fortune_painting.jpg/300px-MANNapoli_8836_Isis_Fortune_painting.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5b/MANNapoli_8836_Isis_Fortune_painting.jpg/400px-MANNapoli_8836_Isis_Fortune_painting.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2458" data-file-height="2329" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext">Fresco of Isis wearing a crescent headdress and resting her foot on a celestial sphere, first century CE</div> </li> <li class="gallerybox" style="width: 235px"> <div class="thumb" style="width: 230px; height: 250px;"><span typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Casa_degli_Amorini_Dorati._Fresco._09.JPG" class="mw-file-description" title="Anubis, Harpocrates, Isis and Serapis, fresco from Pompeii"><img alt="Anubis, Harpocrates, Isis and Serapis, fresco from Pompeii" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/75/Casa_degli_Amorini_Dorati._Fresco._09.JPG/200px-Casa_degli_Amorini_Dorati._Fresco._09.JPG" decoding="async" width="200" height="133" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/75/Casa_degli_Amorini_Dorati._Fresco._09.JPG/300px-Casa_degli_Amorini_Dorati._Fresco._09.JPG 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/75/Casa_degli_Amorini_Dorati._Fresco._09.JPG/400px-Casa_degli_Amorini_Dorati._Fresco._09.JPG 2x" data-file-width="5184" data-file-height="3456" /></a></span></div> <div class="gallerytext"><a href="/wiki/Anubis" title="Anubis">Anubis</a>, <a href="/wiki/Harpocrates" title="Harpocrates">Harpocrates</a>, Isis and <a href="/wiki/Serapis" title="Serapis">Serapis</a>, fresco from <a href="/wiki/Pompeii" title="Pompeii">Pompeii</a></div> </li> </ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Worship_2">Worship</h3></div> <figure class="mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:NAMA_1193.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/NAMA_1193.jpg/150px-NAMA_1193.jpg" decoding="async" width="150" height="456" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/NAMA_1193.jpg/225px-NAMA_1193.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/8a/NAMA_1193.jpg/300px-NAMA_1193.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1973" data-file-height="6000" /></a><figcaption>Funerary stele of Alexandra priestess of Isis, <a href="/wiki/National_Archaeological_Museum,_Athens" title="National Archaeological Museum, Athens">NAMA</a>, <a href="/wiki/Athens" title="Athens">Athens</a>.</figcaption></figure> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Adherents_and_priests">Adherents and priests</h4></div> <p>Like most cults of the time, the Isis cult did not require its devotees to worship Isis <a href="/wiki/Religious_exclusivism" title="Religious exclusivism">exclusively</a>, and their level of commitment probably varied greatly.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBeardNorthPrice1998236,_307–309_222-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBeardNorthPrice1998236,_307–309-222"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>214<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Some devotees of Isis served as priests in a variety of cults and underwent several initiations dedicated to different deities.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBurkert198746–50_223-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBurkert198746–50-223"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>215<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Nevertheless, many emphasized their strong devotion to her, and some considered her the focus of their lives.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBøgh2015279–282_224-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBøgh2015279–282-224"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>216<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> They were among the very few religious groups in the Greco-Roman world to have a distinctive name for themselves, loosely equivalent to "Jew" or "Christian", that might indicate they defined themselves by their religious affiliation. However, the word—<i>Isiacus</i> or "Isiac"—was rarely used.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBeardNorthPrice1998236,_307–309_222-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBeardNorthPrice1998236,_307–309-222"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>214<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Isiacs were a very small proportion of the Roman Empire's population,<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEAlvar200832–33_225-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEAlvar200832–33-225"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>217<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> but they came from every <a href="/wiki/Social_class_in_ancient_Rome" title="Social class in ancient Rome">level of society</a>, from <a href="/wiki/Slavery_in_ancient_Rome" title="Slavery in ancient Rome">slaves</a> and <a href="/wiki/Freedmen" class="mw-redirect" title="Freedmen">freedmen</a> to high officials and members of the imperial family.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTETakács19955–6_226-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETakács19955–6-226"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>218<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Ancient accounts imply that Isis was popular with lower social classes, providing a possible reason why authorities in the Roman Republic, troubled by struggles between classes, regarded her cult with suspicion.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEOrlin2010206_227-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEOrlin2010206-227"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>219<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Women were more strongly represented in the Isis cult than in most Greco-Roman cults, and in imperial times, they could serve as priestesses in many of the same positions in the hierarchy as their male counterparts.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEHeyob197587_228-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHeyob197587-228"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>220<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Women make up much less than half of the Isiacs known from inscriptions and are rarely listed among the higher ranks of priests,<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEHeyob197595–96_229-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHeyob197595–96-229"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>221<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> but because women are underrepresented in Roman inscriptions, their participation may have been greater than is recorded.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEKraemer199276_230-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEKraemer199276-230"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>222<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Several Roman writers accused Isis's cult of encouraging promiscuity among women. Jaime Alvar suggests the cult attracted male suspicion simply because it gave women a venue to act outside their husbands' control.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEAlvar2008183–184_231-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEAlvar2008183–184-231"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>223<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Priests of Isis were known for their distinctive shaven heads and white linen clothes, both characteristics drawn from Egyptian priesthoods and their requirements of <a href="/wiki/Ritual_purity" class="mw-redirect" title="Ritual purity">ritual purity</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEDonalson200349_232-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEDonalson200349-232"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>224<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> A temple of Isis could include several ranks of priests, as well as various cultic associations and specialized duties for lay devotees.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEHeyob197593–94,_103–105_233-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHeyob197593–94,_103–105-233"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>225<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> There is no evidence of a hierarchy overseeing multiple temples, and each temple may well have functioned independently of the others.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBowden2010177_234-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBowden2010177-234"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>226<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Temples_and_daily_rites">Temples and daily rites</h4></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Isiac_water_ceremony.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="Refer to caption" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ac/Isiac_water_ceremony.jpg/220px-Isiac_water_ceremony.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="245" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ac/Isiac_water_ceremony.jpg/330px-Isiac_water_ceremony.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/ac/Isiac_water_ceremony.jpg/440px-Isiac_water_ceremony.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2200" data-file-height="2446" /></a><figcaption>Fresco of an Isiac gathering, first century CE. One priest tends a fire while another holds up a vessel of sacred water at the door of a temple flanked by <a href="/wiki/Sphinx" title="Sphinx">sphinxes</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWitt1997117_235-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEWitt1997117-235"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>227<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></figcaption></figure> <p>Temples to Egyptian deities outside Egypt, such as the <a href="/wiki/Red_Basilica" title="Red Basilica">Red Basilica</a> in <a href="/wiki/Pergamon" title="Pergamon">Pergamon</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Temple_of_Isis_at_Pompeii" class="mw-redirect" title="Temple of Isis at Pompeii">Temple of Isis at Pompeii</a>, or the <a href="/wiki/Iseum_Campense" class="mw-redirect" title="Iseum Campense">Iseum Campense</a> in Rome, were built in a largely Greco-Roman style but, like Egyptian temples, were surrounded by large courts enclosed by walls. They were decorated with Egyptian-themed artwork, sometimes including antiquities imported from Egypt. Their layout was more elaborate than that of traditional Roman temples and included rooms for housing priests and for various ritual functions, with a cult statue of the goddess in a secluded sanctuary.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBommas2012430_236-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBommas2012430-236"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>228<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTETurcan1996104–109_237-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETurcan1996104–109-237"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>229<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Unlike Egyptian cult images, Isis's Hellenistic and Roman statues were life-size or larger. The daily ritual still entailed dressing the statue in elaborate clothes each morning and offering it libations, but in contrast with Egyptian tradition, the priests allowed ordinary devotees of Isis to see the cult statue during the morning ritual, pray to it directly, and sing hymns before it.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEDonalson200334–35,_39_238-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEDonalson200334–35,_39-238"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>230<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Another object of veneration in these temples was water, which was treated as a symbol of the waters of the Nile. Isis temples built in Hellenistic times often included underground cisterns that stored this <a href="/wiki/Sacred_waters" title="Sacred waters">sacred water</a>, raising and lowering the water level in imitation of the Nile flood. Many Roman temples instead used a pitcher of water that was worshipped as a cult image or manifestation of Osiris.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWild198160–61,_154–157_239-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEWild198160–61,_154–157-239"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>231<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Personal_worship">Personal worship</h4></div> <p>Roman <i><a href="/wiki/Lararia" class="mw-redirect" title="Lararia">lararia</a></i>, or household shrines, contained statuettes of the <i><a href="/wiki/Penates" class="mw-redirect" title="Penates">penates</a></i>, a varied group of protective deities chosen based on the preferences of the members of the household.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBodel2008258,_261–262_240-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBodel2008258,_261–262-240"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>232<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Isis and other Egyptian deities were found in <i>lararia</i> in Italy from the late first century BCE<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEAlvar2008192_241-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEAlvar2008192-241"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>233<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> to the beginning of the fourth century CE.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBodel2008261_242-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBodel2008261-242"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>234<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The cult asked both ritual and moral purity of its devotees, periodically requiring ritual baths or days-long periods of sexual abstinence. Isiacs sometimes displayed their piety on irregular occasions, singing Isis's praises in the streets or, as a form of <a href="/wiki/Penance" title="Penance">penance</a>, declaring their misdeeds in public.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBøgh2015281–282_243-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBøgh2015281–282-243"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>235<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Some temples to Greek deities, including Serapis, practiced <a href="/wiki/Incubation_(ritual)" title="Incubation (ritual)">incubation</a>, in which worshippers slept in a temple hoping that the god would appear to them in a dream and give them advice or heal their ailments. Some scholars believe that this practice took place in Isis's temples, but there is no firm evidence that it did.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTERenberg2017392–393_244-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERenberg2017392–393-244"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>236<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Isis was, however, thought to communicate through dreams in other circumstances, including to call worshippers to undergo initiation.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBøgh2015278_245-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBøgh2015278-245"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>237<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Initiation">Initiation</h4></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Main article: <a href="/wiki/Mysteries_of_Isis" title="Mysteries of Isis">Mysteries of Isis</a></div> <p>Some temples of Isis performed <a href="/wiki/Greco-Roman_mysteries" title="Greco-Roman mysteries">mystery rites</a> to <a href="/wiki/Religious_initiation_rites" title="Religious initiation rites">initiate</a> new members of the cult. These rites were claimed to be of Egyptian origin and may have drawn on the secretive tendencies of some Egyptian rites.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGriffiths197042–43_246-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGriffiths197042–43-246"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>238<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> However, they were mainly based on Greek mystery cults, especially the <a href="/wiki/Eleusinian_mysteries" class="mw-redirect" title="Eleusinian mysteries">Eleusinian mysteries</a> dedicated to Demeter, colored with Egyptian elements.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBurkert198741_247-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBurkert198741-247"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>239<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBremmer2014116_248-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBremmer2014116-248"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>240<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-253" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-253"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>Note 9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Although mystery rites are among the best-known elements of Isis's Greco-Roman cult, they are only known to have been performed in Italy, Greece, and Asia Minor.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBremmer2014113–114_251-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBremmer2014113–114-251"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>243<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> By giving the devotee a dramatic, mystical experience of the goddess, initiations added emotional intensity to the process of joining her following.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBøgh2015278_245-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBøgh2015278-245"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>237<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><i>The Golden Ass</i>, in describing how the protagonist joins Isis's cult, gives the only detailed account of Isiac initiation.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBurkert198797_254-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBurkert198797-254"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>245<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Apuleius's motives for writing about the cult and the accuracy of his fictionalized description are much debated. But the account is broadly consistent with other evidence about initiations, and scholars rely heavily on it when studying the subject.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBowden2010165–167,_179–180_255-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBowden2010165–167,_179–180-255"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>246<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Ancient mystery rites used a variety of intense experiences, such as nocturnal darkness interrupted by bright light and loud music and noise, to overwhelm their senses and give them an intense <a href="/wiki/Religious_experience" title="Religious experience">religious experience</a> that felt like direct contact with the god they devoted themselves to.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBowden2010215–216_256-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBowden2010215–216-256"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>247<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Apuleius's protagonist, Lucius, undergoes a series of initiations, though only the first is described in detail. After entering the innermost part of Isis's temple at night, he says, "I came to the boundary of death and, having trodden on the threshold of <a href="/wiki/Proserpina" title="Proserpina">Proserpina</a>, I travelled through all the elements and returned. In the middle of the night I saw the sun flashing with bright light, I came face to face with the gods below and the gods above and paid reverence to them from close at hand."<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEHanson1989341_257-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHanson1989341-257"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>248<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This cryptic description suggests that the initiate's symbolic journey to the world of the dead was likened to Osiris's rebirth, as well as to Ra's journey through the underworld in Egyptian myth,<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGriffiths1975315–317_258-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGriffiths1975315–317-258"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>249<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> possibly implying that Isis brought the initiate back from death as she did her husband.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTETurcan1996121_259-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETurcan1996121-259"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>250<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Festivals">Festivals</h4></div> <p>Roman calendars listed the two most important <a href="/wiki/Roman_festival" class="mw-redirect" title="Roman festival">festivals</a> of Isis as early as the first century CE. The first festival was the <a href="/wiki/Navigium_Isidis" title="Navigium Isidis">Navigium Isidis</a> in March, which celebrated Isis's influence over the sea and served as a prayer for the safety of seafarers and, eventually, of the Roman people and their leaders.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTESalzman1990169–175_260-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESalzman1990169–175-260"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>251<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It consisted of an elaborate procession, including Isiac priests and devotees with a wide variety of costumes and sacred emblems, carrying a model ship from the local Isis temple to the sea<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEDonalson200368–73_261-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEDonalson200368–73-261"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>252<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> or to a nearby river.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEAlvar2008299_262-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEAlvar2008299-262"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>253<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The other was the <a href="/w/index.php?title=Isia_(festival)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Isia (festival) (page does not exist)">Isia</a> in late October and early November. Like its Egyptian forerunner, the Khoiak festival, the Isia included a ritual reenactment of Isis's search for Osiris, followed by jubilation when the god's body was found.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEAlvar2008300–302_263-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEAlvar2008300–302-263"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>254<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Several more minor festivals were dedicated to Isis, including the <a href="/wiki/Pelusia" title="Pelusia">Pelusia</a> in late March that may have celebrated the birth of Harpocrates, and the <a href="/wiki/Lychnapsia" title="Lychnapsia">Lychnapsia</a>, or lamp-lit festival, that celebrated Isis's own birth on August 12.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTESalzman1990169–175_260-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESalzman1990169–175-260"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>251<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Festivals of Isis and other polytheistic deities were celebrated throughout the fourth century CE, despite the <a href="/wiki/Christianization_of_the_Roman_Empire" class="mw-redirect" title="Christianization of the Roman Empire">growth of Christianity</a> in that era and the <a href="/wiki/Persecution_of_pagans_in_the_late_Roman_Empire" title="Persecution of pagans in the late Roman Empire">persecution of pagans</a> that intensified toward the end of the century.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTESalzman1990232–236_264-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESalzman1990232–236-264"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>255<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The Isia was celebrated at least as late as 417 CE,<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTETurcan1996128_265-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETurcan1996128-265"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>256<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and the Navigium Isidis lasted well into the sixth century.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTESalzman1990239_266-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESalzman1990239-266"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>257<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Increasingly, the religious meaning of all Roman festivals was forgotten or ignored even as the customs continued. In some cases, these customs became part of the combined classical and Christian culture of the <a href="/wiki/Early_Middle_Ages" title="Early Middle Ages">Early Middle Ages</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTESalzman1990240–246_267-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESalzman1990240–246-267"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>258<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Possible_influence_on_Christianity">Possible influence on Christianity</h2></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Agath%C3%A9_daim%C3%B4n,_future_Agathe_de_Catane.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="Painting of a seated woman with a child in her lap, offering one of her breasts to the child" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9d/Agath%C3%A9_daim%C3%B4n%2C_future_Agathe_de_Catane.jpg/170px-Agath%C3%A9_daim%C3%B4n%2C_future_Agathe_de_Catane.jpg" decoding="async" width="170" height="156" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9d/Agath%C3%A9_daim%C3%B4n%2C_future_Agathe_de_Catane.jpg/255px-Agath%C3%A9_daim%C3%B4n%2C_future_Agathe_de_Catane.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/9d/Agath%C3%A9_daim%C3%B4n%2C_future_Agathe_de_Catane.jpg/340px-Agath%C3%A9_daim%C3%B4n%2C_future_Agathe_de_Catane.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1500" data-file-height="1373" /></a><figcaption>Isis Lactans holding <a href="/wiki/Harpocrates" title="Harpocrates">Harpocrates</a> in an Egyptian fresco at <a href="/wiki/Karanis" title="Karanis">Karanis</a>, dating to the fourth century CE</figcaption></figure> <p>A contentious question about Isis is whether her cult influenced Christianity.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEAlvar200830_268-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEAlvar200830-268"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>259<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Some Isiac customs may have been among the pagan religious practices that were <a href="/wiki/Interpretatio_Christiana" title="Interpretatio Christiana">incorporated into Christian traditions</a> as the Roman Empire was Christianized. <a href="/wiki/Andreas_Alf%C3%B6ldi" title="Andreas Alföldi">Andreas Alföldi</a>, for instance, argued in the 1930s that the medieval <a href="/wiki/Carnival" title="Carnival">Carnival</a> festival, in which a model boat was carried, developed from the Navigium Isidis.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTESalzman1990240_269-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESalzman1990240-269"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>260<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Much attention focuses on whether traits of Christianity were borrowed from pagan mystery cults, including that of Isis.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEAlvar2008383–385_270-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEAlvar2008383–385-270"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>261<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The more devoted members of Isis's cult made a personal commitment to a deity they regarded as superior to others, as Christians did.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBeardNorthPrice1998286_271-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBeardNorthPrice1998286-271"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>262<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Both Christianity and the Isis cult had an initiation rite: the mysteries for Isis, <a href="/wiki/Baptism" title="Baptism">baptism</a> in Christianity.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBowden2010207–210_272-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBowden2010207–210-272"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>263<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> One of the mystery cults' shared themes—a god whose <a href="/wiki/Dying-and-rising_deity" class="mw-redirect" title="Dying-and-rising deity">death and resurrection</a> may be connected with the individual worshipper's well-being in the afterlife—resembles the central theme of Christianity. The suggestion that Christianity's basic beliefs were taken from mystery cults has provoked heated debate for more than 200 years.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEAlvar2008390–394_273-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEAlvar2008390–394-273"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>264<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In response to these controversies, both Hugh Bowden and Jaime Alvar, scholars who study ancient mystery cults, suggest that similarities between Christianity and the mystery cults were not produced by direct borrowing of ideas but by their common background: the Greco-Roman culture in which they all developed.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBowden2010207–210_272-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBowden2010207–210-272"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>263<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEAlvar2008419–421_274-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEAlvar2008419–421-274"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>265<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Similarities between Isis and <a href="/wiki/Mary,_the_mother_of_Jesus" class="mw-redirect" title="Mary, the mother of Jesus">Mary, the mother of Jesus</a>, have also been scrutinized. They have been subject to controversy between <a href="/wiki/Protestant_Christianity" class="mw-redirect" title="Protestant Christianity">Protestant Christians</a> and the <a href="/wiki/Catholic_Church" title="Catholic Church">Catholic Church</a>, as many Protestants have argued that Catholic <a href="/wiki/Veneration_of_Mary" class="mw-redirect" title="Veneration of Mary">veneration of Mary</a> is a remnant of paganism.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBenko19931–4_275-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBenko19931–4-275"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>266<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The classicist R. E. Witt saw Isis as the "great forerunner" of Mary. He suggested that converts to Christianity who had formerly worshipped Isis would have seen Mary in much the same terms as their traditional goddess. He pointed out that the two had several spheres of influence in common, such as agriculture and the protection of sailors. He compared Mary's title "<a href="/wiki/Mother_of_God" class="mw-redirect" title="Mother of God">Mother of God</a>" to Isis's epithet "mother of the god", and Mary's "<a href="/wiki/Queen_of_heaven" class="mw-redirect" title="Queen of heaven">queen of heaven</a>" to Isis's "<a href="/wiki/Queen_of_heaven_(antiquity)" class="mw-redirect" title="Queen of heaven (antiquity)">queen of heaven</a>".<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWitt1997272–274,_277_276-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEWitt1997272–274,_277-276"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>267<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Stephen Benko, a historian of early Christianity, argues that devotion to Mary was deeply influenced by the worship of several goddesses, not just Isis.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBenko1993263–265_277-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBenko1993263–265-277"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>268<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In contrast, <a href="/wiki/John_McGuckin" title="John McGuckin">John McGuckin</a>, a <a href="/wiki/Church_historian" class="mw-redirect" title="Church historian">church historian</a>, says that Mary absorbed superficial traits from these goddesses, such as iconography, but the fundamentals of her cult were thoroughly Christian.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMcGuckin200817–18_278-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMcGuckin200817–18-278"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>269<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Images of Isis with Horus in her lap are often suggested as an influence on the <a href="/wiki/Madonna_(art)" title="Madonna (art)">iconography of Mary</a>, particularly images of the <a href="/wiki/Nursing_Madonna" title="Nursing Madonna">Mary nursing the infant Jesus</a>, as images of nursing women were rare in the ancient Mediterranean world outside Egypt.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEHeyob197574–76_279-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHeyob197574–76-279"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>270<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Vincent Tran Tam Tinh points out that the latest images of Isis nursing Horus date to the fourth century CE, while the earliest images of Mary nursing Jesus date to the seventh century CE. Sabrina Higgins, drawing on his study, argues that if there is a connection between the iconographies of Isis and Mary, it is limited to images from Egypt.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEHiggins201272–74_280-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHiggins201272–74-280"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>271<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In contrast, Thomas F. Mathews and Norman Muller think Isis's pose in late antique panel paintings influenced several types of Marian icons, inside and outside Egypt.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMathewsMuller20056–9_281-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMathewsMuller20056–9-281"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>272<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Elizabeth Bolman says these early Egyptian images of Mary nursing Jesus were meant to emphasize his divinity, much as images of nursing goddesses did in ancient Egyptian iconography.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBolman200517–18_282-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBolman200517–18-282"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>273<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Higgins argues that such similarities prove that images of Isis influenced those of Mary, but not that Christians deliberately adopted Isis's iconography or other elements of her cult.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEHiggins201278–79_283-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHiggins201278–79-283"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>274<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Influence_in_later_cultures">Influence in later cultures</h2></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236090951"><div role="note" class="hatnote navigation-not-searchable">Further information: <a href="/wiki/Ancient_Egypt_in_the_Western_imagination" title="Ancient Egypt in the Western imagination">Ancient Egypt in the Western imagination</a></div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-right" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Auguste_Puttemans_Isis_2.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="Statue of a woman on a throne covered by a veil" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/41/Auguste_Puttemans_Isis_2.jpg/220px-Auguste_Puttemans_Isis_2.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="377" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/41/Auguste_Puttemans_Isis_2.jpg/330px-Auguste_Puttemans_Isis_2.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/41/Auguste_Puttemans_Isis_2.jpg/440px-Auguste_Puttemans_Isis_2.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1371" data-file-height="2348" /></a><figcaption>Isis as a <a href="/wiki/Veil_of_Isis" title="Veil of Isis">veiled "goddess of life"</a> at the <a href="/wiki/Herbert_Hoover_National_Historic_Site" title="Herbert Hoover National Historic Site">Herbert Hoover National Historic Site</a></figcaption></figure> <p>The memory of Isis survived the extinction of her worship. Like the Greeks and Romans, many modern Europeans have regarded ancient Egypt as the home of profound and often mystical wisdom, and this wisdom has often been linked with Isis.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEHornung2001189–191,_195–196_284-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHornung2001189–191,_195–196-284"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>275<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Giovanni_Boccaccio" title="Giovanni Boccaccio">Giovanni Boccaccio</a>'s biography of Isis in his 1374 work <i><a href="/wiki/De_mulieribus_claris" class="mw-redirect" title="De mulieribus claris">De mulieribus claris</a></i>, based on classical sources, treated her as a historical queen who taught skills of civilization to humankind. Some <a href="/wiki/Renaissance" title="Renaissance">Renaissance</a> thinkers elaborated this perspective on Isis. <a href="/wiki/Annio_da_Viterbo" class="mw-redirect" title="Annio da Viterbo">Annio da Viterbo</a>, in the 1490s, claimed Isis and Osiris had civilized Italy before Greece, thus drawing a direct connection between his home country and Egypt. The <a href="/wiki/Borgia_Apartments" title="Borgia Apartments">Borgia Apartments</a> painted for Annio's patron, <a href="/wiki/Pope_Alexander_VI" title="Pope Alexander VI">Pope Alexander VI</a>, incorporate this same theme in their illustrated rendition of the Osiris myth.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEHornung200178,_83–86_285-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHornung200178,_83–86-285"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>276<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><a href="/wiki/Western_esotericism" title="Western esotericism">Western esotericism</a> has often made reference to Isis. Two Roman esoteric texts used the mythic motif in which Isis passes down secret knowledge to Horus. In <i><a href="/wiki/Kore_Kosmou" class="mw-redirect" title="Kore Kosmou">Kore Kosmou</a></i>, she teaches him wisdom passed down from <a href="/wiki/Hermes_Trismegistus" title="Hermes Trismegistus">Hermes Trismegistus</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEvan_den_Broek2006478_286-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEvan_den_Broek2006478-286"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>277<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> and in the early <a href="/wiki/Alchemical" class="mw-redirect" title="Alchemical">alchemical</a> text <i><a href="/wiki/Isis_the_Prophetess_to_Her_Son_Horus" class="mw-redirect" title="Isis the Prophetess to Her Son Horus">Isis the Prophetess to Her Son Horus</a></i>, she gives him alchemical recipes.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEHaage200624_287-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHaage200624-287"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>278<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Early modern esoteric literature, which saw Hermes Trismegistus as an Egyptian sage and frequently made use of texts attributed to his hand, sometimes referred to Isis as well.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEQuentin2012148–149_288-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEQuentin2012148–149-288"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>279<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In a different vein, Apuleius's description of Isiac initiation has influenced the practices of many <a href="/wiki/Secret_societies" class="mw-redirect" title="Secret societies">secret societies</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEHornung2001196_289-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHornung2001196-289"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>280<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Jean_Terrasson" title="Jean Terrasson">Jean Terrasson</a>'s 1731 novel <i><a href="/wiki/Life_of_Sethos" title="Life of Sethos">Sethos</a></i> used Apuleius as inspiration for a fanciful Egyptian initiation rite dedicated to Isis.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEMacpherson2004242_290-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEMacpherson2004242-290"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>281<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It was imitated by actual rituals in various <a href="/wiki/Masonic" class="mw-redirect" title="Masonic">Masonic</a> and Masonic-inspired societies during the eighteenth century, as well as in other literary works, most notably <a href="/wiki/Wolfgang_Amadeus_Mozart" title="Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart">Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart</a>'s 1791 opera <i><a href="/wiki/The_Magic_Flute" title="The Magic Flute">The Magic Flute</a></i>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTESpieth200750–52_291-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESpieth200750–52-291"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>282<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>From the Renaissance on, the <a href="/wiki/Veil_of_Isis" title="Veil of Isis">veiled statue of Isis</a> that Plutarch and Proclus mentioned was interpreted as a personification of <a href="/wiki/Nature" title="Nature">nature</a>, based on a passage in the works of <a href="/wiki/Macrobius" title="Macrobius">Macrobius</a> in the fifth century CE that equated Isis with nature.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEHadot2006233–237_292-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHadot2006233–237-292"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>283<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-293" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-293"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>Note 10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Authors in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries ascribed a wide variety of meanings to this image. Isis represented nature as the mother of all things, as a set of truths waiting to be unveiled by science, as a symbol of the <a href="/wiki/Pantheist" class="mw-redirect" title="Pantheist">pantheist</a> concept of an anonymous, enigmatic deity who was <a href="/wiki/Immanent" class="mw-redirect" title="Immanent">immanent</a> within nature,<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEHadot2006266–269_294-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHadot2006266–269-294"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>284<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> or as an awe-inspiring <a href="/wiki/Sublime_(philosophy)" title="Sublime (philosophy)">sublime power</a> that could be experienced through ecstatic mystery rites.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEAssmann1997128–135_295-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEAssmann1997128–135-295"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>285<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In the <a href="/wiki/Dechristianization_of_France_during_the_French_Revolution" title="Dechristianization of France during the French Revolution">dechristianization of France during the French Revolution</a>, she served as an alternative to traditional Christianity: a symbol that could represent nature, modern scientific wisdom, and a link to the pre-Christian past.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTESpieth200791,_140_296-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESpieth200791,_140-296"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>286<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> For these reasons, Isis's image appeared in artwork sponsored by the <a href="/wiki/French_First_Republic" title="French First Republic">revolutionary government</a>, such as the <a href="/wiki/Fontaine_de_la_R%C3%A9g%C3%A9n%C3%A9ration" title="Fontaine de la Régénération">Fontaine de la Régénération</a>, and by the <a href="/wiki/First_French_Empire" title="First French Empire">First French Empire</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEHumbert2000175–178_297-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHumbert2000175–178-297"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>287<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEQuentin2012177–180_298-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEQuentin2012177–180-298"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>288<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The metaphor of Isis's veil continued to circulate through the nineteenth century. <a href="/wiki/Helena_Blavatsky" title="Helena Blavatsky">Helena Blavatsky</a>, the founder of the esoteric <a href="/wiki/Theosophy_(Blavatskian)" class="mw-redirect" title="Theosophy (Blavatskian)">Theosophical</a> tradition, titled her 1877 book on Theosophy <i><a href="/wiki/Isis_Unveiled" title="Isis Unveiled">Isis Unveiled</a></i>, implying that it would reveal spiritual truths about nature that science could not.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEZiolkowski200875–76_299-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEZiolkowski200875–76-299"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>289<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Among modern Egyptians, Isis was used as a national symbol during the <a href="/wiki/Pharaonism" title="Pharaonism">Pharaonism</a> movement of the 1920s and 1930s, as Egypt gained independence from <a href="/wiki/History_of_Egypt_under_the_British" title="History of Egypt under the British">British rule</a>. In works such as Mohamed Naghi's painting in the <a href="/wiki/Parliament_of_Egypt" title="Parliament of Egypt">parliament of Egypt</a>, titled <i>Egypt's Renaissance</i>, and <a href="/wiki/Tawfiq_al-Hakim" title="Tawfiq al-Hakim">Tawfiq al-Hakim</a>'s play <i>The Return of the Spirit</i>, Isis symbolizes the revival of the nation. A sculpture by <a href="/wiki/Mahmoud_Mokhtar" title="Mahmoud Mokhtar">Mahmoud Mokhtar</a>, also called <i>Egypt's Renaissance</i>, plays upon the motif of Isis's removing her veil.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEQuentin2012225–227_300-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEQuentin2012225–227-300"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>290<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Isis is found frequently in works of fiction, such as a <a href="/wiki/Isis_(DC_Comics)" title="Isis (DC Comics)">superhero franchise</a>, and her name and image appear in places as disparate as advertisements and personal names.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEHumbert2000185,_188_301-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHumbert2000185,_188-301"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>291<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The name <i>Isidoros</i>, meaning "gift of Isis" in Greek,<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEDonalson2003170_302-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEDonalson2003170-302"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>292<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> survived in Christianity despite its pagan origins, giving rise to the English name <a href="/wiki/Isidore" title="Isidore">Isidore</a> and its variants.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEWitt1997280_303-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEWitt1997280-303"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>293<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries, "Isis" itself became a popular feminine <a href="/wiki/Isis_(given_name)" title="Isis (given name)">given name</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEKhazan2014_304-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEKhazan2014-304"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>294<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Isis continues to appear in modern esoteric and <a href="/wiki/Modern_pagan" class="mw-redirect" title="Modern pagan">pagan</a> belief systems. The concept of a single goddess incarnating all feminine divine powers, partly inspired by Apuleius, became a widespread theme in literature of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEHutton201933–34_305-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHutton201933–34-305"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>295<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Influential groups and figures in esotericism, such as the <a href="/wiki/Hermetic_Order_of_the_Golden_Dawn" title="Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn">Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn</a> in the late nineteenth century and <a href="/wiki/Dion_Fortune" title="Dion Fortune">Dion Fortune</a> in the 1930s, adopted this all-encompassing goddess into their belief systems and called her Isis. This conception of Isis influenced the <a href="/wiki/Great_Goddess" title="Great Goddess">Great Goddess</a> found in many forms of <a href="/wiki/Neopagan_witchcraft" title="Neopagan witchcraft">Neopagan witchcraft</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEHutton201982–84,_191–192_306-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHutton201982–84,_191–192-306"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>296<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEAdler198635–36,_56_307-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEAdler198635–36,_56-307"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>297<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Today, <a href="/wiki/Kemetism" title="Kemetism">reconstructions of ancient Egyptian religion</a>, such as <a href="/wiki/Kemetic_Orthodoxy" title="Kemetic Orthodoxy">Kemetic Orthodoxy</a><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEForrest2001236_308-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEForrest2001236-308"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>298<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> or the Church of the Eternal Source, include Isis among the deities they revere.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEAdler1986267,_270_309-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEAdler1986267,_270-309"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>299<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> An eclectic religious organization focused on female divinity calls itself the <a href="/wiki/Fellowship_of_Isis" title="Fellowship of Isis">Fellowship of Isis</a> because, in the words of one of its priestesses, M. Isidora Forrest, Isis can be "all Goddesses to all people".<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEForrest2001233_310-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEForrest2001233-310"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>300<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2></div> <ul><li><span class="nowrap"><span class="noviewer" typeof="mw:File"><a href="/wiki/File:Brooklyn_Museum_1989.51.39_Nommo_Figure_with_Raised_Arms.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="icon" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/97/Brooklyn_Museum_1989.51.39_Nommo_Figure_with_Raised_Arms.jpg/21px-Brooklyn_Museum_1989.51.39_Nommo_Figure_with_Raised_Arms.jpg" decoding="async" width="21" height="28" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/97/Brooklyn_Museum_1989.51.39_Nommo_Figure_with_Raised_Arms.jpg/31px-Brooklyn_Museum_1989.51.39_Nommo_Figure_with_Raised_Arms.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/97/Brooklyn_Museum_1989.51.39_Nommo_Figure_with_Raised_Arms.jpg/42px-Brooklyn_Museum_1989.51.39_Nommo_Figure_with_Raised_Arms.jpg 2x" data-file-width="1152" data-file-height="1536" /></a></span> </span><a href="/wiki/Portal:Traditional_African_religion" class="mw-redirect" title="Portal:Traditional African religion">Traditional African religion portal</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Notes">Notes</h2></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist"> <div class="mw-references-wrap"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-5">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="/wiki/Ancient_Egyptian_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Ancient Egyptian language">Ancient Egyptian</a>: <span lang="egy" style="font-style: normal;"><span style="font-family:'Egyptian Text', 'Noto Sans Egyptian Hieroglyphs'"><span style="vertical-align:sub;"><span style="vertical-align:sub;line-height:180%"><span style="font-size:180%; vertical-align:sub;"><b>𓊨𓏏𓆇𓁐</b></span></span></span></span></span>, <small><a href="/wiki/Romanization_of_Ancient_Egyptian" class="mw-redirect" title="Romanization of Ancient Egyptian">romanized</a>: </small><span title="Ancient Egyptian-language romanization"><i lang="egy-Latn"><a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%EA%9C%A3st" class="extiw" title="wikt:ꜣst">ꜣst</a></i></span>;<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEQuack2018108_2-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEQuack2018108-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Coptic_language" title="Coptic language">Coptic</a>: <span lang="cop">Ⲏⲥⲉ</span> <i>Ēse</i>; <a href="/wiki/Classical_Greek_language" class="mw-redirect" title="Classical Greek language">Classical Greek</a>: <span lang="grc"><a href="https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E1%BC%BE%CF%83%CE%B9%CF%82" class="extiw" title="wikt:Ἶσις">Ἶσις</a></span>; <a href="/wiki/Meroitic_language" title="Meroitic language">Meroitic</a>: <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1009394725">.mw-parser-output .script-Mero{font-family:"Noto Sans Meroitic"}</style><span class="script-Mero" style="font-size: 100%;">𐦥𐦣𐦯</span>‎ <i>Wos</i>[<i>a</i>] or <i>Wusa</i>; <a href="/wiki/Phoenician_language" title="Phoenician language">Phoenician</a>: 𐤀𐤎,<sup id="cite_ref-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <small>romanized:</small> ʾs</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-15"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-15">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">The worship of a particular god, such as Isis, within ancient Egyptian religion is termed a "<a href="/wiki/Cult_(religious_practice)" title="Cult (religious practice)">cult</a>".<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTETeeter2001340_11-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETeeter2001340-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The same is often true for the worship of individual gods within Greek or Roman religion. Classicists sometimes refer to the veneration of Isis, or of certain other deities who were introduced to the Greco-Roman world, as "religions" because they were more distinct from the culture around them than the cults of Greek or Roman gods.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEAlvar20082–4_12-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEAlvar20082–4-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> However, these cults did not form the kind of independent, self-contained communities with distinct worldviews that <a href="/wiki/Judaism" title="Judaism">Jewish</a> and <a href="/wiki/Christianity" title="Christianity">Christian</a> groups in the Roman Empire did.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBurkert198751–53_13-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBurkert198751–53-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Fran%C3%A7oise_Dunand" title="Françoise Dunand">Françoise Dunand</a> and <a href="/wiki/Jaime_Alvar" class="mw-redirect" title="Jaime Alvar">Jaime Alvar</a> have both argued that the worship of Isis should be called a "cult", because it formed a part of the wider systems of Greek and Roman religion, rather than an independent, all-encompassing system of beliefs like Judaism or Christianity.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEAlvar20082–4_12-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEAlvar20082–4-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEDunand201040–41,_50–51_14-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEDunand201040–41,_50–51-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </span> </li> <li id="cite_note-17"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-17">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Originally the first consonant in the name, <i>ꜣ</i>, was pronounced as <i>r</i> or <i>l</i>. By the time of the <a href="/wiki/New_Kingdom_of_Egypt" title="New Kingdom of Egypt">New Kingdom</a> it had weakened to a <a href="/wiki/Glottal_stop" title="Glottal stop">glottal stop</a> sound, and the <i>t</i> at the end of words had disappeared from speech, so in the New Kingdom the pronunciation of Isis's name was similar to <i>Usa</i>. Forms of her name in other languages all descend from this pronunciation.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEQuack2018108–109_16-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEQuack2018108–109-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The Meroitic forms of her name, <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1009394725"><span class="script-Mero" style="font-size: 100%;">𐦥𐦣𐦯</span>‎ <i>Wos[a]</i> or <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1009394725"><span class="script-Mero" style="font-size: 100%;">𐦠𐦯</span>‎ <i>As[a]</i>, indicate the pronunciation /uːɕa/.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTERillyde_Vogt201237_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTERillyde_Vogt201237-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </span> </li> <li id="cite_note-87"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-87">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">These figurines, which were common in Roman Egypt, are often thought to depict Isis or Hathor combined with Aphrodite, but it is not even certain that they represent a goddess.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTESandri2012637–638_86-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESandri2012637–638-86"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>83<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The exposed genitals may represent fertility<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEFrankfurter1998104_85-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEFrankfurter1998104-85"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>82<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> or be meant to ward off evil.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTESandri2012637–638_86-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTESandri2012637–638-86"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>83<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </span> </li> <li id="cite_note-121"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-121">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Scholars have traditionally believed, based on the writings of <a href="/wiki/Procopius" title="Procopius">Procopius</a>, that Philae was closed in about AD 535 by a military expedition under <a href="/wiki/Justinian_I" title="Justinian I">Justinian I</a>. Jitse Dijkstra has argued that Procopius's account of the temple closure is inaccurate and that regular religious activity there ceased shortly after the last date inscribed at the temple, in 456 or 457 CE.<sup id="cite_ref-Dijkstra_342_119-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Dijkstra_342-119"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>115<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Eugene Cruz-Uribe suggests instead that during the fifth and sixth centuries the temple lay empty most of the time, but Nubians living nearby continued to hold periodic festivals there until well into the sixth century.<sup id="cite_ref-120" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-120"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>116<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-150"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-150">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Tiberius's expulsion of the Egyptian cults was part of a broader reaction against religious practices that were regarded as a threat to order and tradition, including Judaism and <a href="/wiki/Hellenistic_astrology" title="Hellenistic astrology">astrology</a>. <a href="/wiki/Josephus" title="Josephus">Josephus</a>, a Roman-Jewish historian who gives the most detailed account of the expulsion, says the Egyptian cults were targeted because of a scandal in which a man posed as Anubis, with the help of Isis's priests, in order to seduce a Roman noblewoman. Sarolta Takács casts doubt on Josephus's account, arguing that it is fictionalized in order to convey a moral point.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTETakács199583–86_149-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTETakács199583–86-149"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>144<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-180"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-180">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">The statue was at a temple in <a href="/wiki/Sais" class="mw-redirect" title="Sais">Sais</a>, Neith's cult center. She was largely conflated with Isis in Plutarch's time, and he says the statue is of "Athena [Neith], whom [the Egyptians] consider to be Isis". Proclus' version of the quotation says "no one has ever lifted my veil," implying that the goddess is virginal.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEAssmann1997118–119_178-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEAssmann1997118–119-178"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>172<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> This claim was occasionally made of Isis in Greco-Roman times, though it conflicted with the widespread belief that she and Osiris together conceived Horus.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEGriffiths1970284_179-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEGriffiths1970284-179"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>173<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Proclus also adds "The fruit of my womb was the sun", suggesting that the goddess conceived and gave birth to the sun without the participation of a male deity, which would mean it referred to Egyptian myths about Neith as the mother of Ra.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEAssmann1997118–119_178-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEAssmann1997118–119-178"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>172<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </span> </li> <li id="cite_note-215"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-215">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">This knot is sometimes called the "Isis-knot", although it should not be confused with the <i>tyet</i> symbol, which is also sometimes called the "knot of Isis".<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBianchi198010_214-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBianchi198010-214"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>207<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-253"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-253">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">The mystery rites may have emerged as part of the Hellenization of Isis under the Ptolemies in the third century BCE,<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEAlvar200858–61_249-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEAlvar200858–61-249"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>241<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> in Greece under the influence of the cult of Demeter in the first century BCE,<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEPakkanen199678–82_250-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEPakkanen199678–82-250"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>242<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> or as late as the first or second century CE.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEBremmer2014113–114_251-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEBremmer2014113–114-251"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>243<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Even after the initiation ceremony had developed, few texts in Egypt referred to it.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEVenit201090_252-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEVenit201090-252"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>244<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-293"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-293">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text">Early modern illustrations of Isis as nature often showed her with multiple breasts. Originally, the <a href="/wiki/Temple_of_Artemis#Ephesian_Artemis" title="Temple of Artemis">form of Artemis</a> that was worshipped at <a href="/wiki/Ephesus" title="Ephesus">Ephesus</a> was depicted with round protuberances on her chest that came to be interpreted as breasts. Early modern artists drew Isis in this form because Macrobius claimed that both Isis and Artemis were depicted this way.<sup id="cite_ref-FOOTNOTEHadot2006233–237_292-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-FOOTNOTEHadot2006233–237-292"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>283<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </span> </li> </ol></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Citations">Citations</h3></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239543626"><div class="reflist reflist-columns references-column-width" style="column-width: 20em;"> <ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEHart200579-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-FOOTNOTEHart200579_1-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><a href="#CITEREFHart2005">Hart 2005</a>, p. 79.</span> </li> <li id="cite_note-FOOTNOTEQuack2018108-2"><span 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Thames & Hudson. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-500-05120-7" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-500-05120-7"><bdi>978-0-500-05120-7</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Complete+Gods+and+Goddesses+of+Ancient+Egypt&rft.pub=Thames+%26+Hudson&rft.date=2003&rft.isbn=978-0-500-05120-7&rft.aulast=Wilkinson&rft.aufirst=Richard+H.&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2Fcompletegodsgodd00wilk_0&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AIsis" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFWitt1997" class="citation book cs1">Witt, R. E. (1997) [First edition 1971]. <i>Isis in the Ancient World</i>. Johns Hopkins University Press. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-8018-5642-6" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-8018-5642-6"><bdi>978-0-8018-5642-6</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Isis+in+the+Ancient+World&rft.pub=Johns+Hopkins+University+Press&rft.date=1997&rft.isbn=978-0-8018-5642-6&rft.aulast=Witt&rft.aufirst=R.+E.&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AIsis" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFWoolf2014" class="citation book cs1">Woolf, Greg (2014). "Isis and the Evolution of Religions". In Bricault, Laurent; Versluys, Miguel John (eds.). <i>Power, Politics and the Cults of Isis. Proceedings of the Vth International Conference of Isis Studies, Boulogne-sur-Mer, October 13–15, 2011</i>. Brill. pp. 62–92. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-90-04-27718-2" title="Special:BookSources/978-90-04-27718-2"><bdi>978-90-04-27718-2</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.atitle=Isis+and+the+Evolution+of+Religions&rft.btitle=Power%2C+Politics+and+the+Cults+of+Isis.+Proceedings+of+the+Vth+International+Conference+of+Isis+Studies%2C+Boulogne-sur-Mer%2C+October+13%E2%80%9315%2C+2011&rft.pages=62-92&rft.pub=Brill&rft.date=2014&rft.isbn=978-90-04-27718-2&rft.aulast=Woolf&rft.aufirst=Greg&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AIsis" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFYellin2012a" class="citation book cs1">Yellin, Janice W. (2012a). "Wad ban Naqa". In Fisher, Marjorie M.; Lacovara, Peter; Ikram, Salima; D'Auria, Sue (eds.). <i>Ancient Nubia: African Kingdoms on the Nile</i>. The American University in Cairo Press. pp. 244–246. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-977-416-478-1" title="Special:BookSources/978-977-416-478-1"><bdi>978-977-416-478-1</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.atitle=Wad+ban+Naqa&rft.btitle=Ancient+Nubia%3A+African+Kingdoms+on+the+Nile&rft.pages=244-246&rft.pub=The+American+University+in+Cairo+Press&rft.date=2012&rft.isbn=978-977-416-478-1&rft.aulast=Yellin&rft.aufirst=Janice+W.&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AIsis" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFYellin2012b" class="citation book cs1">Yellin, Janice W. (2012b). "Nubian Religion". In Fisher, Marjorie M.; Lacovara, Peter; Ikram; D'Auria, Sue (eds.). <i>Ancient Nubia: African Kingdoms on the Nile</i>. The American University in Cairo Press. pp. 125–144. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-977-416-478-1" title="Special:BookSources/978-977-416-478-1"><bdi>978-977-416-478-1</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.atitle=Nubian+Religion&rft.btitle=Ancient+Nubia%3A+African+Kingdoms+on+the+Nile&rft.pages=125-144&rft.pub=The+American+University+in+Cairo+Press&rft.date=2012&rft.isbn=978-977-416-478-1&rft.aulast=Yellin&rft.aufirst=Janice+W.&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AIsis" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFŽabkar1988" class="citation book cs1"><a href="/wiki/Louis_Vico_%C5%BDabkar" title="Louis Vico Žabkar">Žabkar, Louis V.</a> (1988). <i>Hymns to Isis in Her Temple at Philae</i>. Brandeis University Press. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-87451-395-0" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-87451-395-0"><bdi>978-0-87451-395-0</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Hymns+to+Isis+in+Her+Temple+at+Philae&rft.pub=Brandeis+University+Press&rft.date=1988&rft.isbn=978-0-87451-395-0&rft.aulast=%C5%BDabkar&rft.aufirst=Louis+V.&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AIsis" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFZiolkowski2008" class="citation journal cs1"><a href="/wiki/Theodore_Ziolkowski" title="Theodore Ziolkowski">Ziolkowski, Theodore</a> (Summer 2008). "The Veil as Metaphor and Myth". <i>Religion & Literature</i>. <b>40</b> (2): 61–81.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Religion+%26+Literature&rft.atitle=The+Veil+as+Metaphor+and+Myth&rft.ssn=summer&rft.volume=40&rft.issue=2&rft.pages=61-81&rft.date=2008&rft.aulast=Ziolkowski&rft.aufirst=Theodore&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AIsis" class="Z3988"></span></li></ul> </div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Further_reading">Further reading</h2></div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239549316"><div class="refbegin" style=""> <ul><li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation book cs1 cs1-prop-foreign-lang-source cs1-prop-foreign-lang-source cs1-prop-foreign-lang-source">Berger, Catherine; Clerc, Gisèle; Grimal, Nicolas, eds. (1994). <i>Hommages à Jean Leclant, Volume 3: Études isiaques</i> (in French, English, German, and Italian). Institut français d'archéologie orientale. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-2-7247-0138-8" title="Special:BookSources/978-2-7247-0138-8"><bdi>978-2-7247-0138-8</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Hommages+%C3%A0+Jean+Leclant%2C+Volume+3%3A+%C3%89tudes+isiaques&rft.pub=Institut+fran%C3%A7ais+d%27arch%C3%A9ologie+orientale&rft.date=1994&rft.isbn=978-2-7247-0138-8&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AIsis" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation book cs1">Bricault, Laurent (2019). <i>Isis Pelagia: Images, Names and Cults of a Goddess of the Seas</i>. Brill. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-90-04-41389-4" title="Special:BookSources/978-90-04-41389-4"><bdi>978-90-04-41389-4</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Isis+Pelagia%3A+Images%2C+Names+and+Cults+of+a+Goddess+of+the+Seas&rft.pub=Brill&rft.date=2019&rft.isbn=978-90-04-41389-4&rft.aulast=Bricault&rft.aufirst=Laurent&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AIsis" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation book cs1 cs1-prop-foreign-lang-source">Bricault, Laurent (2013). <i>Les Cultes Isiaques Dans Le Monde Gréco-romain</i> (in French). Les Belles Lettres. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-2-251-33969-6" title="Special:BookSources/978-2-251-33969-6"><bdi>978-2-251-33969-6</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Les+Cultes+Isiaques+Dans+Le+Monde+Gr%C3%A9co-romain&rft.pub=Les+Belles+Lettres&rft.date=2013&rft.isbn=978-2-251-33969-6&rft.aulast=Bricault&rft.aufirst=Laurent&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AIsis" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation book cs1">Bricault, Laurent; Veymiers, Richard, eds. (2008–2020). <i>Bibliotheca Isiaca</i>. Ausonius Éditions.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Bibliotheca+Isiaca&rft.pub=Ausonius+%C3%89ditions&rft.date=2008%2F2020&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AIsis" class="Z3988"></span> Vol. I: <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-2-910023-99-7" title="Special:BookSources/978-2-910023-99-7">978-2-910023-99-7</a>; Vol. II: <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-2-356-13053-2" title="Special:BookSources/978-2-356-13053-2">978-2-356-13053-2</a>; Vol. III: <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-2-356-13121-8" title="Special:BookSources/978-2-356-13121-8">978-2-356-13121-8</a>; Vol. IV: <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-2-356-13341-0" title="Special:BookSources/978-2-356-13341-0">978-2-356-13341-0</a>.</li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation book cs1 cs1-prop-foreign-lang-source">Dunand, Françoise (1973). <i>Le culte d'Isis dans le bassin oriental de la méditerranée</i> (in French). Brill.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Le+culte+d%27Isis+dans+le+bassin+oriental+de+la+m%C3%A9diterran%C3%A9e&rft.pub=Brill&rft.date=1973&rft.aulast=Dunand&rft.aufirst=Fran%C3%A7oise&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AIsis" class="Z3988"></span> Vol. I: <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-90-04-03581-2" title="Special:BookSources/978-90-04-03581-2">978-90-04-03581-2</a>; Vol. II: <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-90-04-03582-9" title="Special:BookSources/978-90-04-03582-9">978-90-04-03582-9</a>; Vol. III: <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-90-04-03583-6" title="Special:BookSources/978-90-04-03583-6">978-90-04-03583-6</a>.</li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation book cs1 cs1-prop-foreign-lang-source"><a href="/wiki/Jean_Leclant" title="Jean Leclant">Leclant, Jean</a>; Clerc, Gisèle (1972–1991). <i>Inventaire bibliographique des Isiaca. Répertoire bibliographique des travaux relatifs à la diffusion des cultes isiaques 1940–1969</i> (in French). Brill.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Inventaire+bibliographique+des+Isiaca.+R%C3%A9pertoire+bibliographique+des+travaux+relatifs+%C3%A0+la+diffusion+des+cultes+isiaques+1940%E2%80%931969&rft.pub=Brill&rft.date=1972%2F1991&rft.aulast=Leclant&rft.aufirst=Jean&rft.au=Clerc%2C+Gis%C3%A8le&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AIsis" class="Z3988"></span> A–D: <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-90-04-29481-3" title="Special:BookSources/978-90-04-29481-3">978-90-04-29481-3</a>; E–K: <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-90-04-03981-0" title="Special:BookSources/978-90-04-03981-0">978-90-04-03981-0</a>; L–Q: <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-90-04-07061-5" title="Special:BookSources/978-90-04-07061-5">978-90-04-07061-5</a>; R–Z: <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-90-04-09247-1" title="Special:BookSources/978-90-04-09247-1">978-90-04-09247-1</a>.</li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation book cs1 cs1-prop-foreign-lang-source">Nagel, Svenja (2019). <i>Isis im Römischen Reich</i> (in German). Harrassowitz. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-3-447-10801-0" title="Special:BookSources/978-3-447-10801-0"><bdi>978-3-447-10801-0</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Isis+im+R%C3%B6mischen+Reich&rft.pub=Harrassowitz&rft.date=2019&rft.isbn=978-3-447-10801-0&rft.aulast=Nagel&rft.aufirst=Svenja&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AIsis" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation book cs1 cs1-prop-foreign-lang-source">Tran Tam Tinh, V. (1973). <i>Isis lactans: Corpus des monuments gréco-romains d'Isis allaitant Harpocrate</i> (in French). Brill. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-90-04-03746-5" title="Special:BookSources/978-90-04-03746-5"><bdi>978-90-04-03746-5</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Isis+lactans%3A+Corpus+des+monuments+gr%C3%A9co-romains+d%27Isis+allaitant+Harpocrate&rft.pub=Brill&rft.date=1973&rft.isbn=978-90-04-03746-5&rft.aulast=Tran+Tam+Tinh&rft.aufirst=V.&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AIsis" class="Z3988"></span></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation book cs1 cs1-prop-foreign-lang-source">Vidman, Ladislav (1970). <i>Isis und Serapis bei den Griechen und Römern</i> (in German). Walter de Gruyter. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-3-11-176823-6" title="Special:BookSources/978-3-11-176823-6"><bdi>978-3-11-176823-6</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Isis+und+Serapis+bei+den+Griechen+und+R%C3%B6mern&rft.pub=Walter+de+Gruyter&rft.date=1970&rft.isbn=978-3-11-176823-6&rft.aulast=Vidman&rft.aufirst=Ladislav&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AIsis" class="Z3988"></span></li></ul> </div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="External_links">External links</h2></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1235681985">.mw-parser-output .side-box{margin:4px 0;box-sizing:border-box;border:1px solid #aaa;font-size:88%;line-height:1.25em;background-color:var(--background-color-interactive-subtle,#f8f9fa);display:flow-root}.mw-parser-output .side-box-abovebelow,.mw-parser-output .side-box-text{padding:0.25em 0.9em}.mw-parser-output .side-box-image{padding:2px 0 2px 0.9em;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .side-box-imageright{padding:2px 0.9em 2px 0;text-align:center}@media(min-width:500px){.mw-parser-output .side-box-flex{display:flex;align-items:center}.mw-parser-output .side-box-text{flex:1;min-width:0}}@media(min-width:720px){.mw-parser-output .side-box{width:238px}.mw-parser-output .side-box-right{clear:right;float:right;margin-left:1em}.mw-parser-output .side-box-left{margin-right:1em}}</style><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1237033735">@media print{body.ns-0 .mw-parser-output .sistersitebox{display:none!important}}@media screen{html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .sistersitebox img[src*="Wiktionary-logo-en-v2.svg"]{background-color:white}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .sistersitebox img[src*="Wiktionary-logo-en-v2.svg"]{background-color:white}}</style><div class="side-box side-box-right plainlinks sistersitebox"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1126788409">.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul{line-height:inherit;list-style:none;margin:0;padding:0}.mw-parser-output .plainlist ol li,.mw-parser-output .plainlist ul li{margin-bottom:0}</style> <div class="side-box-flex"> <div class="side-box-image"><span class="noviewer" typeof="mw:File"><span><img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/4a/Commons-logo.svg/30px-Commons-logo.svg.png" decoding="async" width="30" height="40" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/4a/Commons-logo.svg/45px-Commons-logo.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/4a/Commons-logo.svg/59px-Commons-logo.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1024" data-file-height="1376" /></span></span></div> <div class="side-box-text plainlist">Wikimedia Commons has media related to <span style="font-weight: bold; font-style: italic;"><a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Category:Isis" class="extiw" title="commons:Category:Isis">Isis</a></span>.</div></div> </div> <ul><li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.ucl.ac.uk/museums-static/digitalegypt/literature/isisandra.html">"Isis and the Name of Ra"</a>, as translated by A. 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colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><b>A</b></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Aati" title="Aati">Aati</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Aker_(deity)" title="Aker (deity)">Aker</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Akhty_(deity)" title="Akhty (deity)">Akhty</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Amenhotep,_son_of_Hapu" title="Amenhotep, son of Hapu">Amenhotep, son of Hapu</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Amesemi" title="Amesemi">Amesemi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ammit" title="Ammit">Ammit</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Am-heh" title="Am-heh">Am-heh</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Amu-Aa" title="Amu-Aa">Amu-Aa</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Anat" title="Anat">Anat</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Andjety" title="Andjety">Andjety</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Anhur" title="Anhur">Anhur</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Anput" title="Anput">Anput</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Anubis" title="Anubis">Anubis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Anuket" title="Anuket">Anuket</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Apedemak" title="Apedemak">Apedemak</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Apep" title="Apep">Apep</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Apis_(deity)" title="Apis (deity)">Apis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Apt_(Egyptian)" title="Apt (Egyptian)">Apt</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Aqen" title="Aqen">Aqen</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Arensnuphis" title="Arensnuphis">Arensnuphis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ash_(deity)" title="Ash (deity)">Ash</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Assessors_of_Maat" title="Assessors of Maat">Assessors</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Astarte" title="Astarte">Astarte</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Aten" title="Aten">Aten</a></li> <li><b>B</b></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Babi_(mythology)" title="Babi (mythology)">Babi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Banebdjedet" title="Banebdjedet">Banebdjedet</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bastet" title="Bastet">Bastet</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bat_(goddess)" title="Bat (goddess)">Bat</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bata_(god)" title="Bata (god)">Bata</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ba-Pef" title="Ba-Pef">Ba-Pef</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bennu" title="Bennu">Bennu</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bes" title="Bes">Bes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Buchis" title="Buchis">Buchis</a></li> <li><b>C</b></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cavern_deities_of_the_underworld" title="Cavern deities of the underworld">Cavern deities</a></li> <li><b>D</b></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dedun" title="Dedun">Dedun</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dionysus-Osiris" title="Dionysus-Osiris">Dionysus-Osiris</a></li> <li><b>F</b></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Four_sons_of_Horus" title="Four sons of Horus">Four sons of Horus</a></li> <li><b>G</b></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gate_deities_of_the_underworld" title="Gate deities of the underworld">Gate deities</a></li> <li><b>H</b></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ha_(mythology)" title="Ha (mythology)">Ha</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hapi_(Nile_god)" title="Hapi (Nile god)">Hapi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hathor" title="Hathor">Hathor</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hatmehit" title="Hatmehit">Hatmehit</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hauron" title="Hauron">Hauron</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hedetet" title="Hedetet">Hedetet</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hedjhotep" title="Hedjhotep">Hedjhotep</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Heka_(god)" title="Heka (god)">Heka</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hemen" title="Hemen">Hemen</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hemsut" title="Hemsut">Hemsut</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Henet" title="Henet">Henet</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Heqet" title="Heqet">Heqet</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hermanubis" title="Hermanubis">Hermanubis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Heryshaf" title="Heryshaf">Heryshaf</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hesat" title="Hesat">Hesat</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Horus" title="Horus">Horus</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Harpocrates" title="Harpocrates">Harpocrates</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hu_(mythology)" title="Hu (mythology)">Hu</a></li> <li><b>I</b></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Iabet" title="Iabet">Iabet</a></li> 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title="Kherty">Kherty</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Khnum" title="Khnum">Khnum</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Khonsu" title="Khonsu">Khonsu</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kothar-wa-Khasis" title="Kothar-wa-Khasis">Kothar-wa-Khasis</a></li> <li><b>M</b></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Maahes" title="Maahes">Maahes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Maat" title="Maat">Ma'at</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mafdet" title="Mafdet">Mafdet</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mandulis" title="Mandulis">Mandulis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Medjed" title="Medjed">Medjed</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mehen" title="Mehen">Mehen</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mehet-Weret" title="Mehet-Weret">Mehet-Weret</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mehit" title="Mehit">Mehit</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Menhit" title="Menhit">Menhit</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Meret" title="Meret">Meret</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Meretseger" title="Meretseger">Meretseger</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Meskhenet" title="Meskhenet">Meskhenet</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Min_(god)" title="Min (god)">Min</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mnevis" title="Mnevis">Mnevis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Montu" title="Montu">Montu</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mut" title="Mut">Mut</a></li> <li><b>N</b></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nebethetepet" title="Nebethetepet">Nebethetepet</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nebtuwi" title="Nebtuwi">Nebtuwi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nefertem" title="Nefertem">Nefertem</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nehebkau" title="Nehebkau">Nehebkau</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nehmetawy" title="Nehmetawy">Nehmetawy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Neith" title="Neith">Neith</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nekhbet" title="Nekhbet">Nekhbet</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nemty" title="Nemty">Nemty</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Neper_(mythology)" title="Neper (mythology)">Neper</a></li> <li><b>P</b></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pakhet" title="Pakhet">Pakhet</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Perit_(goddess)" title="Perit (goddess)">Perit</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Petbe" title="Petbe">Petbe</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ptah" title="Ptah">Ptah</a></li> <li><b>Q</b></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Qebui" title="Qebui">Qebui</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Qed-her" title="Qed-her">Qed-her</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Qetesh" title="Qetesh">Qetesh</a></li> <li><b>R</b></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ra" title="Ra">Ra</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Raet-Tawy" title="Raet-Tawy">Raet-Tawy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rekhyt" title="Rekhyt">Rekhyt</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rem_(mythology)" title="Rem (mythology)">Rem</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Renenutet" title="Renenutet">Renenutet</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Renpet" title="Renpet">Renpet</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Renpetneferet" title="Renpetneferet">Renpetneferet</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Repyt" title="Repyt">Repyt</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Resheph" title="Resheph">Resheph</a></li> <li><b>S</b></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sah_(god)" title="Sah (god)">Sah</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Satis_(goddess)" title="Satis (goddess)">Satis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sebiumeker" title="Sebiumeker">Sebiumeker</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Seker" title="Seker">Seker</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sekhmet" title="Sekhmet">Sekhmet</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Serapis" title="Serapis">Serapis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Serket" title="Serket">Serket</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Seshat" title="Seshat">Seshat</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shai" title="Shai">Shai</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shed_(deity)" title="Shed (deity)">Shed</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shesmetet" title="Shesmetet">Shesmetet</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shezmu" title="Shezmu">Shezmu</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sia_(god)" title="Sia (god)">Sia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sobek" title="Sobek">Sobek</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sopdet" title="Sopdet">Sopdet</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sopdu" title="Sopdu">Sopdu</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Souls_of_Pe_and_Nekhen" title="Souls of Pe and Nekhen">Souls of Pe and Nekhen</a></li> <li><b>T</b></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tatenen" title="Tatenen">Tatenen</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Taweret" title="Taweret">Taweret</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tayt" title="Tayt">Tayt</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ta-Bitjet" title="Ta-Bitjet">Ta-Bitjet</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thoth" title="Thoth">Thoth</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Hermes_Trismegistus" title="Hermes Trismegistus">Hermes Trismegistus</a></li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tjenenyet" title="Tjenenyet">Tjenenyet</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tutu_(Egyptian_god)" title="Tutu (Egyptian god)">Tutu</a></li> <li><b>U</b></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Unut" title="Unut">Unut</a></li> <li><b>W</b></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wadjet" title="Wadjet">Wadjet</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wadj-wer" title="Wadj-wer">Wadj-wer</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Weneg_(Egyptian_deity)" title="Weneg (Egyptian deity)">Weneg</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wepset" title="Wepset">Wepset</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wepwawet" title="Wepwawet">Wepwawet</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Werethekau" title="Werethekau">Werethekau</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wosret" title="Wosret">Wosret</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background-color:#decd87;width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Category:Egyptian_legendary_creatures" title="Category:Egyptian legendary creatures">Creatures</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Aani" title="Aani">Aani</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Abtu" title="Abtu">Abtu</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Griffin" title="Griffin">Griffin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hieracosphinx" title="Hieracosphinx">Hieracosphinx</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Medjed_(fish)" title="Medjed (fish)">Medjed</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Serpopard" title="Serpopard">Serpopard</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Set_animal" title="Set animal">Sha</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sphinx" title="Sphinx">Sphinx</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Uraeus" title="Uraeus">Uraeus</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background-color:#decd87;width:1%">Characters</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Dedi" title="Dedi">Dedi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Djadjaemankh" title="Djadjaemankh">Djadjaemankh</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rededjet" title="Rededjet">Rededjet</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ubaoner" title="Ubaoner">Ubaoner</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background-color:#decd87;width:1%">Locations</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Aaru" title="Aaru">Aaru</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Akhet_(hieroglyph)" title="Akhet (hieroglyph)">Akhet</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Benben" title="Benben">Benben</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Duat" title="Duat">Duat</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Land_of_Manu" title="Land of Manu">Land of Manu</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Indestructibles" title="The Indestructibles">The Indestructibles</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background-color:#decd87;width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Category:Ancient_Egyptian_symbols" title="Category:Ancient Egyptian symbols">Symbols<br />and objects</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Ankh" title="Ankh">Ankh</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Atef" title="Atef">Atef</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cartouche_(hieroglyph)" class="mw-redirect" title="Cartouche (hieroglyph)">Cartouche</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Corn_mummy" title="Corn mummy">Corn mummy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Crook_and_flail" title="Crook and flail">Crook and flail</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Crown_of_justification" title="Crown of justification">Crown of justification</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Deshret" title="Deshret">Deshret</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Djed" title="Djed">Djed</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Egyptian_obelisk" class="mw-redirect" title="Egyptian obelisk">Egyptian obelisk</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Egyptian_pool" title="Egyptian pool">Egyptian pool</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eye_of_Horus" title="Eye of Horus">Eye of Horus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eye_of_Ra" title="Eye of Ra">Eye of Ra</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hedjet" title="Hedjet">Hedjet</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hemhem_crown" title="Hemhem crown">Hemhem crown</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hennu" title="Hennu">Hennu</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Horus_on_the_Crocodiles" title="Horus on the Crocodiles">Horus on the Crocodiles</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hypocephalus" title="Hypocephalus">Hypocephalus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Imiut_fetish" title="Imiut fetish">Imiut fetish</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Khepresh" title="Khepresh">Khepresh</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kneph" title="Kneph">Kneph</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Menat" title="Menat">Menat</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nebu" title="Nebu">Nebu</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nemes" title="Nemes">Nemes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Neshmet" title="Neshmet">Neshmet</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ouroboros" title="Ouroboros">Ouroboros</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pschent" title="Pschent">Pschent</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Scarab_(artifact)" title="Scarab (artifact)">Scarab</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Serekh" title="Serekh">Serekh</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shen_ring" title="Shen ring">Shen ring</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Solar_barque" title="Solar barque">Solar barque</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tyet" title="Tyet">Tyet</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ushabti" title="Ushabti">Ushabti</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vulture_crown" title="Vulture crown">Vulture crown</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Was-sceptre" title="Was-sceptre">Was-sceptre</a></li> <li><a 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Cow</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Book_of_Traversing_Eternity" title="Book of Traversing Eternity">Book of Traversing Eternity</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Coffin_Texts" title="Coffin Texts">Coffin Texts</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Contendings_of_Horus_and_Seth" title="The Contendings of Horus and Seth">The Contendings of Horus and Seth</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Enigmatic_Book_of_the_Netherworld" class="mw-redirect" title="Enigmatic Book of the Netherworld">Enigmatic Book of the Netherworld</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Great_Hymn_to_the_Aten" title="Great Hymn to the Aten">Great Hymn to the Aten</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Litany_of_the_Eye_of_Horus" title="Litany of the Eye of Horus">Litany of the Eye of Horus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Litany_of_Re" title="Litany of Re">Litany of Re</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pyramid_Texts" title="Pyramid Texts">Pyramid Texts</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Spell_of_the_Twelve_Caves" title="Spell of the Twelve Caves">Spell of the Twelve Caves</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background-color:#decd87;width:1%"><a href="/wiki/Category:Festivals_in_ancient_Egypt" title="Category:Festivals in ancient Egypt">Festivals</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Beautiful_Festival_of_the_Valley" title="Beautiful Festival of the Valley">Beautiful Festival of the Valley</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cattle_count" title="Cattle count">Cattle count</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Coronation_of_the_pharaoh" title="Coronation of the pharaoh">Coronation of the pharaoh</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Min_festival" title="Min festival">Min festival</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Opet_Festival" title="Opet Festival">Opet Festival</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sed_festival" title="Sed festival">Sed festival</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" 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