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Tuesday 7 February 2012 Week:6 |
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| ISIS IN THE EGYPTIAN MYTHOLOGY |
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As a powerful fertility godess is she sometimes identified with HATHOR and is in the same manner depicted with cow hornes with the sun disc in the centre. She is also "great in witchcraft", and a powerful wizard. She poisoned RA with a snake that she had created. In that way she could make him disclose his secret name as a condition that she would cure him. As common by the gods ISIS married with the time her brother OSIRIS. When RA was getting old he made OSIRIS to the king over Egypt and ISIS to queen. OSIRIS was soon murdered by his brother SETH and the body was sealed up in a lead box wich was thrown into the sea. ISIS was searching for the box during a long time and was travelling through many countries. At last she found it, grown-in into a big tree in the kingdom of Byblos. As SETH got to know that ISIS had found the box he hunted it up, cut the body of OSIRIS into pieces and spread them over the whole of Egypt. After that he was convinced that ISIS never would be able to find them. During many sad years ISIS and her sister NEPHTYS were wandering through Egypt, and everywhere they found a piece from OSIRIS body they raised an altar. At last all pieces were together and ISIS used all her most powerful witch formulas to make the body whole again. The two godesses were watching over the body in the shape of hawks, and they spread out their wings over it. ISIS tried every witch formula she knew and at last she succeeded to make OSIRIS alive again, but only for one lovenight, so that she could get pregnant and be able to have a child. After that OSIRIS body died for ever, but his soul would still live on. RA made OSIRIS to the king over the "Dead In The Beutiful Country In West", and from that day all egyptians knew that the death was nothing to fear, while their souls would continue their lives in OSIRIS country. HORUS, the falcon-headed son of ISIS and OSIRIS, was born in the marsches of Chemmis, and there are many stories about his dangerous childhood. Text from "Gods & pharaones in the egyptician mythology" of Harris/O´Connor/Sibbick) |
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