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Goddess of kingship and protection of the kingdom. Isis holds the king, Seti I, in her lap, thirteenth century BCE. 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.
The mysteries of Isis were religious initiation rites performed in the cult of the Egyptian goddess Isis in the Greco-Roman world. They were modeled on other mystery rites , particularly the Eleusinian mysteries in honor of the Greek goddesses Demeter and Persephone , and originated sometime between the third century BCE and the second century CE .
Nut / ˈnʊt / [2] ( Ancient Egyptian: Nwt, Coptic: Ⲛⲉ[citation needed] ), also known by various other transcriptions, is the goddess of the sky, stars, cosmos, mothers, astronomy, and the universe in the ancient Egyptian religion. [3] She was seen as a star-covered nude woman arching over the Earth, [4] or as a cow.
Anubis, Wepwawet, Horus (in some myths) [3] Nephthys or Nebet-Het in ancient Egyptian ( Greek: Νέφθυς) was a goddess in ancient Egyptian religion. A member of the Great Ennead of Heliopolis in Egyptian mythology, she was a daughter of Nut and Geb. Nephthys was typically paired with her sister Isis in funerary rites [4] because of their ...
The family of Osiris, the protagonists of the Osiris myth. Osiris is depicted on a lapis lazuli pillar in the center, flanked by Horus on the left and Isis on the right in this Twenty-second Dynasty statuette. The Osiris myth is the most elaborate and influential story in ancient Egyptian mythology. It concerns the murder of the god Osiris, a ...
Queen of Heaven was a title given to a number of ancient sky goddesses worshipped throughout the ancient Mediterranean and the ancient Near East. Goddesses known to have been referred to by the title include Inanna, Anat, Isis, Nut, Astarte, and possibly Asherah (by the prophet Jeremiah ). In Greco-Roman times, Hera and Juno bore this title.
Set is the son of Geb, the Earth, and Nut, the Sky; his siblings are Osiris, Isis, and Nephthys. He married Nephthys and fathered Anubis and Wepwawet. In some accounts, he had relationships with the foreign goddesses Anat and Astarte.: 270 From these relationships is said to be born a crocodile deity called Maga.
Temple of Isis (Pompeii) Coordinates: 40°44′57″N 14°29′17.8″E. The Temple of Isis in Pompeii ( c. 1870) The Temple of Isis is a Roman temple dedicated to the Egyptian goddess Isis. This small and almost intact temple was one of the first discoveries during the excavation of Pompeii in 1764. [1] Its role as a Hellenized Egyptian temple ...