Ancient Egypt And Isis: The Mother Of God

The ancient egyptians religion was complex in some ways. Ancient Egyptians were polytheistic meaning they believed in more than one god. Many temples were built in honor of the gods. The only people that were allowed in the temples were the priests, priestesses, queens, and pharaohs, other people could only go as far as the temple gates. In total there was about 700 different gods and goddesses and many were combined to create new gods and goddesses. Ancient Egyptians were always polytheistic besides one brief change. King/Pharaoh Akhenaten changed it to monotheism but it didn’t stick and died with him. The most worshiped gods were Isis, Osiris, Horus, Anubis, Ra, Nu, and Set. Isis was the goddess of marriage, fertility, motherhood, magic,

The Egyptian goddess Isis is one of the most imperative goddesses of ancient Egypt, and she stays one of the most famous goddesses of this era. Isis is most renowned for her character as dedicated wife and mother (Cashford & Baring, 1993). In the Osiris myth we can perceive the reckoning following this outline of thinking.

Hatshepsut is another Egyptian god which can be classified as a hero she believed that joy and happiness were legitimate goals of life and regarded home and family as the major source of delight.” Because of this belief, women enjoyed a higher respect in Egypt than in many other cultures of the ancient world. While the man was considered the head of the house, the woman was head of the home. She raised the children of both sexes until, at the age of four or five, boys were taken under the care and protection of their fathers to learn their profession (or attend school if the father’s profession was that of a scribe). Girls remained under the care of their mothers, learning how to run a household, until they were

Gods and Goddesses were very important to the Egyptian people. Bastet was a highly worshiped goddess, because she protected the people. It is said that she had two sides to her personality, docile and aggressive. She has also distinct features, a women with the head of a domesticated cat. She was given festivals and temples by the people.

​Isis, the ideal mother and wife worshiped by ancient Egyptians, believed to be the patroness of nature and magic. Isis is often depicted as the mother of Horus. Horus is one of the more significant deities of Egyptian religion. Often represented by a falcon, Horus is said to be the sky, also containing the sun and moon. After visiting the Brooklyn Art Museum, I was most intrigued by the bronze statue of Isis Nursing Horus. I noticed the parallels between Isis and Horus statue and the Christian Virgin Mother and

Isis was known to be the goddess of fertility and motherhood. Egyptians say that she was the daughter of the god Keb (Earth) and the goddess Nut (Sky), wife and sister of Osiris, the sister of Seth, Nepythys, and the mother of Horus, the god of day. Isis shown in many photographs with miniature thrones or horns from her head and sometimes with a solar disc between the cows horns like Hathor. She was known to have taught Osiris all the aspects to agriculture. She taught the women to spin, weave, and flax

Ancient Egyptians looked to one godess when it came to love, music, dancing, beauty, joy, gratitude, and motherhood. And that goddess was the goddess of love, Hathor. Hathor was a very important goddess in Ancient Egypt. In fact, she was the goddess with the most festivals celebrated and children named after her, although her popularity was at risk of being stomped on by Isis. She wasn’t always that way though.

Osiris is the Egyptian god of death, the Underworld and Rebirth. He was killed by his brother, Seth, who was jealous. After his death, he became the King of the Underworld. ( Linda Alchin, 2015). According to Linda Alchin, ¨He was the consort of Isis, who was also his sister. His famous sons were Horus by Isis and Anubis by his other sister, Nephthys.¨ Osiris was son to Geb and Nut, who also were parents to Seth, Isis, and Nephthys. ( Lisa Springer and Neil Morris, 2010) According to Encyclopaedia Britannica, ¨ he was a local god of Busiris, in Lower Egypt,¨.

So, he (Osiris) became the god of the Underworld. This last god, was Isis. She was the wife of Osiris, had also been considered the perfect woman (and/or wife), and was the goddess of health, marriage, and wisdom. These are some of the most important and well known gods of Egypt.

Some say he was the oldest son of Geb, though other information say that he was the son of the sun-god-Ra and Nut the sky goddess, he also had a few siblings including Isis (also his wife), Set, Nephthys, and Horus the elder. Horus the younger was said to be his son.

The god of Osiris was the king of Egypt. He was classically depicted as a green-skinned man with a pharaoh's beard, partially mummy-wrapped at the legs. His brother, Seth, plotted to kill him because of jealousy. Osiris was a good god to his people. He was married to Isis, who was also his sister. After being murder by his brother, he still remained a monument to the Egyptians. Osiris's wife, Isis restores her husband's body, allowing him to posthumously conceive a son with her. Osiris is one of the most important gods of ancient. After his death he become merciful judge of the dead in the afterlife. Osiris is titled as the god of the afterlife, the underworld, and the dead, transition, resurrection, and regeneration.

Every country and culture have an origin story they take pride in remembering. Not only do they pride in it, but they also let the stories, and even myths, influence their daily lives. Ancient Egyptians are not exempt of this category. Ancient Egyptians had such a variety of gods to choose from, their mythology almost seems like a godly convenience store.

When a goddess called Inanna, came to the underworld, Ereshkigal made her take off a piece of clothing every time she came to each of the seven gates of the underworld. Ereshkigal knew that if Inanna came to her naked, she would lose her powers and her immortality. Osiris was the brother and husband of the goddess Isis. Besides being the god of the dead, he was also the god of resurrection and fertility. The ancient Egyptians believed that Osiris gave them barley.

Under Greek rule, the Egyptians did begin to worship some Greek gods, although they kept on worshipping the old Egyptian gods as well. Also at this time, Greek people in Athens began to worship the Egyptian goddess Isis. They learned about Isis from traders sailing over from

The Egyptian Goddess Isis, whom is the Goddess of Health, Marriage, and Wisdom, has been widely worshipped amongst many religions throughout history seeing as her influence was able to spread outside Egypt as Isis’s influence spread also to the Greco-Roman world as well. The contrast of her worship in the Egyptian world and the Greco-Roman world is particularly fascinating as her worship had evolved over the course of time. In each of these time periods, as her worship continued temples were built in her name in Egypt and in Greece.