Isis

This is a picture of Isis nursing her son Horus

Isis, the goddess of the moon and motherhood of the ancient Egyptians, was symbolized by a woman on the brow of the moon disk, worshipped by the ancient Egyptians, the Ptolemies and the Romans. Her remains were scattered everywhere in Egypt, and with the help of Nephthys and Thoth, she brought him back to life after his departure to a new, limited life in the other world. She raised her son Horus, who gave birth to him from her late husband Osiris, in the thickets of the Khemis swamps in the Delta. The imagination of the common people was fond of contemplating the image of the mother. The latter hid herself In the swamps of the Delta, in which Horus raised her child, even if “he was young and hardened his arm”, he was able to take revenge on his father’s murderer, Set …………..

Isis was the most famous of all Egyptian goddesses, and she was the example of a faithful wife even after the death of her husband and a devoted mother to her son. The worship of Isis during the reign of the Ptolemies and the Romans extended beyond the borders of Egypt. She had her temples, priests, feasts and religious secrets in all parts of the Roman world, where she became a representation Goddess of the universe “I am the mother of all nature, the master of all the elements, the origin and origin of time, the supreme goddess, the wisest of the heavens, the benevolent breezes of the sea, and the stillness of the desolate hell” …………….

The ancient Egyptians knew her as “Iset,” meaning the one sitting on her throne, and in any case, the pharaonic pronunciation of Isis remains uncertain. It is “Hizet” from the verb acquired, that is, the sighted priestess Isis, from which the Arabs named one of her idols “Uzza” as he In the colloquial dialect, it is said “Izzi”, meaning guesswork, speculate, and prophesy, and grasp a gateway from Hizet, substitute the ha-ha with the letter Ayn, which becomes dear, and put Lam after a thousand to become Al-Uzza ………

According to the ancient Egyptian myth, Isis had three sisters, “Osiris, Set, and Nephthys,” and they are the four sons of “Geb”, the god of the earth, and “Nut”, the goddess of the sky. Isis married her brother Osiris, and Seth, who attacked and killed Osiris.

★ Isis gave birth to her son, Horus, and helped him regain the throne from his uncle Six, “who became a god of evil.” Some historians believe that the statues of Isis breastfeeding Horus were inspired by Christian artists to depict the Virgin Mary and her son Christ, and there are Roman statues that resemble this scene even before the advent of Christianity …………

The temples of elephants were originally constructed for the worship of the goddess “Isis”, and in all the centuries, elephants gained a special place in worship to the point that a crowd of followers of that religion used to gather to revive the story of the death and resurrection of Osiris …..

The great temple was built during the third century BC, followed by the temples of Amenhotep and Arsenovis. As for the temple of Hathor, it is the last Ptolemaic temple, and its construction continued before the year 116 BC, by “Eurogates II”. Other Ptolemies added inscriptions to Philae, which are considered one of the masterpieces of the temple. From Egypt, The worship of the gods Isis extended to Greece, Rome, and various parts of the empire; even when the Roman rule was applied in Egypt, the rulers tried to beautify the Holy Island, so Emperor Augustus Caesar built a temple at the northern end of an elephant in the ninth century BC. As for “Tiberius” and others, they added edifices and inscriptions, and “Claudius, Trajan, Hadrian and Diocletian” built new buildings on the island until the fourth century AD, introducing Christianity to Egypt, elephants became after this a stable for the Christian religion. They discovered there until Now the traces of ancient churches, and the temple was closed permanently by the Christian Emperor.

“Justinian” to be the last of the pagan temples in the countries of the Mediterranean, and he turned it into a church dedicated to the Virgin Mary in 550 until the Muslims closed it in the seventh century AD. A Roman temple of Isis was discovered in England.