Isis

Egyptian religion

• Isis is connected to Osiris.

  Egyptian myth has Isis search for and restore Osiris. The plot is a royal-funerary one, not a Greek Demeter search copied backwards.

  from Raymond O. Faulkner (translation) · Book of the Dead, New Kingdom spells; Faulkner trans. 1972

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• Isis belongs to Egyptian religion.

  Isis belongs to Egyptian temple and funerary religion as the spells and later cults remember her.

  from Raymond O. Faulkner (translation) · Book of the Dead, New Kingdom spells; Faulkner trans. 1972

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• Isis is associated with Knowledge.

  Isis is a speaker of effective words in Egyptian tradition. The knowledge is effective speech, not Hermetic gnosis.

  from Raymond O. Faulkner (translation) · Book of the Dead, New Kingdom spells; Faulkner trans. 1972

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• Isis is used in Rite.

  Herodotus describes a principal Egyptian festival of Isis at Busiris where the people lament after sacrifice. A Greek traveler’s report of Isis as the dedicatory focus of a named rite, not the Demeter interpretatio edge and not a Book of the Dead spell.

  from Herodotus · Histories, c. 440s BCE

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• Sistrum is sacred to Isis.

  Plutarch’s Isis and Osiris treats the sistrum as Isis’s shaking rattle. A named cult-instrument of that goddess, not a generic bell, and not a sistrum dump onto every Egyptian rite.

  from Plutarch · On Isis and Osiris, c. 100 CE

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• Tyet is sacred to Isis.

  The Book of the Dead treats the tyet-knot as Isis’s blood-sign among the dead. A named knot of that goddess, not the djed, and not a generic amulet.

  from Raymond O. Faulkner (translation) · Book of the Dead, New Kingdom spells; Faulkner trans. 1972

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Hellenic religion · Late antiquity

• Isis is connected to Osiris.

  Plutarch’s treatise On Isis and Osiris is a Greek philosophical retelling of an Egyptian pair. It is a secondary meeting, not the spells of the dead, and should not be used as if it were an Old Kingdom handbook.

  from Plutarch · On Isis and Osiris, c. 100 CE

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Hellenic religion · Nile valley

• Isis is a counterpart of Demeter.

  Herodotus says that Isis is, in the Greek language, Demeter, locating that name at a temple in the Egyptian Delta. A Greek traveler’s identification of an Egyptian goddess, not a single being and not the Homeric Hymn’s grain-mother.

  from Herodotus · Histories, c. 440s BCE

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