What you do not know about “Ast / Isis / Isis”, the archetype of female creativity
She is considered a symbol of fertility and motherhood. She played many roles in history and mythology as a female and creative goddess in ancient Egypt and throughout the ancient world.
Her name means (Queen of the Throne), so her headscarf is an empty chair belonging to her murdered husband Osir, and she was a personification of the throne.
In the typical form of her Egyptian myth, Ast / Iza was the daughter of “Geb” (Lord of the Earth), and “Nut” (Goddess of Heaven), married her brother Osir and gave birth to Horus.
Ast was instrumental in bringing back life to her husband’s body, “Osir”, when he was killed by his brother “Set” and his aides. By using her magic skill, she brought his body back to life after she collected the body parts that were scattered around the earth by “Set”, and it was believed that a river, The Nile floods every year because of the tears of sadness that she shed over the death of her husband, Ozer. The drama of Ozir’s death and resurrection was repeated every year during the rituals and celebrations that were held dramatically.
Most of the Egyptian nitro was local, and eventually, it spread in all regions of Egypt. Most cities in ancient Egypt were known to be affiliated with a certain nitro. Still, the origins of Isis are uncertain, and it is believed that she was originally an independent nitrate known from the pre-dynastic (before 3100 BC) In Sibnitus (present-day Samannoud) in the Delta of Egypt, the earliest written documents of “Iseh” date to the Fifth Dynasty.
Based on the connection of her name to the throne, some early Egyptologists believed that the original function of Isis was the function of (the throne of the mother). However, some recent studies indicate that aspects of this role came later, and the throne is known as (the king’s mother), and this concept fits closely together. Good with either theory, and it might give an insight into the thinking of the ancient Egyptians.
Iza was an important source of the king’s power, and sometimes the king was portrayed as her child Horus, who sat on his father’s throne, so the king’s titles were the title Horus.
Nintra Eaza had its common rituals all over Egypt. Its most important shrine in the late-era was in Behbeit al-Hajjarah, one of the villages of Samanoud Center in the Gharbia Governorate in the Nile Delta. It began during the reign of King Nakht Anbo I of the Thirty Dynasty around 380-362 BC, in Philae Island.
The most common name is Isis, which is the Greek pronunciation from the Egyptian name “Ast”. Ast / Isis often appears as the mother of Horus and is based on caring for him and breastfeeding him. Still, Ast is a fictional mythological character whose soul dwelt in the Yemeni poetry star Sirius Sirius. Sirius was one of the stars very beloved by the Egyptians because his appearance was not only the beginning of the New Year, but an announcement of the imminent annual flood of the Nile, which was like the rejuvenation and prosperity of Egypt, considering that it is the incubator of the land and the fertility giver with its waters such as the goddess of cultivated lands and fields, and the goddess of resurrection and donor Life.
“Iza” was considered the great lady in the world of Dot (the underground world / the underworld) who helped the blessed dead in the world of Ozir considering that she was “Amit”, who had a close relationship with Hathor and Iza in their role in the other world. Hence, it is possible to look at Nitra. However, she is not independent of them but rather an alternative personality to them. In this capacity, she shared with Ozier the adjective of “giving life”, considering it the provision of food and sustenance for the dead.
At a relatively early period in Egyptian history, Ize absorbed all the traits of nitro, local such as Nekhbet, Nate, Bastet, Hathor, etc. Sometimes, it was identified as a female nitrate emerging from the abyss of primitive water from which all life arose. Impossible to limit the attributes of “Ise” that possesses the attributes of aqueous nitro-aqueous powers, terrestrial nitro-powers, stellar powers, magical powers, powers of an underworld queen, and a woman
“Iza” was honoured first in Egypt, for she is the only woman who is revered by all Egyptians alike in all regions of Egypt, and whose influence was so widespread that in later times it became completely associated with the Greek goddess Demeter, the goddess of nature, plants and agriculture for the Greeks in a period. Greek Egypt, and with the Romans in the name of “Ceres”, the goddess of agriculture and agriculture, met the Greek goddess Demeter. After the conquest of Egypt by Alexander the Great, the worship of Isis spread throughout the Greek and Roman world.
In the context of ancient Greek art and culture during the Hellenistic period in Egypt, which represents the period between the death of Alexander the Great, which Ptolemy initiated the First Soter, until the incorporation of the heart of Classical Greece into the Roman Empire, Isis / Isis became in this period known as the Queen of Heaven. In the Hellenistic era, Isis gained a new rank as goddess A pioneer in the Mediterranean world, and she was known by the name (Isis has ten thousand names) !!! Among these Greek and Roman names (Isis, Queen of Heaven), Isis has temples throughout Europe, Africa, and Asia. She carved chapels and statues of alabaster from the third century BC. A statue of her was found in Macedonia.
The myth of Isis and Osir was a very important myth during the Greek and Roman period on the Greek island of Delos, one of the most important mythological, historical and archaeological sites in Greece, and in Italian “Pompeii”, a Roman city in which about twenty thousand people lived near the Gulf of Naples in Italy. Today, nothing remains of the city except its ancient ruins.
In the classical Egyptian period in the Book of Exodus in the Day, popularly known as (The Book of the Dead), Eze was described as the one who gives birth to heaven and earth, defines the orphan and the widow, shelters the weak, and seeks justice among people.
During the Old Kingdom period, Isis was represented as a helper and protector of the deceased king …. Thus, she had a funeral bond and thus, it is not surprising that Isis played a central role in Egyptian spells and magical rituals, especially those spells related to protection and healing, and in many incantations her name appears More than eighty times in the texts of the pyramids, this connection with the deceased king coincides with her role as the wife of Ozir and the mother of Horus Al-Nitr, who is associated with the king as his protector, and then later the deification of the king himself.
In addition to this, Iza was also represented as the mother of the “four suns of Horus” (the four sons of Horus), who protected the canopic jars that contained the king’s internal organs. More specifically, Iza was considered a protector of the liver (the jar of Emsti, with a human head, is the spirit that She protects the liver), where paragraph 157 of the coffin texts mention that their father was (Hor the Great). Their mother was “Isis”, and chapter 112 of the Book of Exodus in the Day (The Book of the Dead) indicates that the sons of Horus were their fathers. “Hor” and their mother is “Iza”. By the time of the Middle Kingdom, funeral texts began to be used by members of Egyptian society in general after it was limited to the royal family. The role of Ize as a protector grew to include protecting the nobles and even the common people, and by the time of the modern state, its role grew. Like a slutty mother, instead of her role as a wife, she was seen as the king’s mother, and the king was often depicted in some scenes breastfeeding from her breast in the form of a woman or a tree.
With the merging of the religious centers in ancient Egypt, the Egyptian religion became more unified, and when the star of “Ra” emerged in Heliopolis, “Ra” was merged with Horus, and Hathor was associated with “Ra” in some areas as the mother of “Ra”, and Iseh began to merge with Hathor assimilated and acquired some of her aspects, and after absorbing many of the roles of Hathor, her head covering (throne chair) was sometimes replaced by the head cover of Hathor (cow horns with a sun disk in the middle), due to her attributes as a protective mother, in addition to the lively side she acquired through Her myth and roles became the patron goddess of sailors and sailors, and her worship spread throughout the world with the movement of merchant ships that were spread in the Mediterranean and the ports of Isis were located in the Arabian Sea and the Black Sea, and the inscriptions appeared successively in Gaul, Spain, Pannonia, Germany, Arabia, Asia Minor and Portugal, many The chapels, obelisks and statues were erected in her honor even in Britain, and temples dedicated to her were built in Iraq, Greece and ancient Rome.
The worship of Isis continued in the late era until the sixth century AD on the island of Philae in Aswan. The temple was not destroyed in implementing the royal decree issued in 380 AD to destroy all Egyptian temples. This tolerance was due to an old treaty between the Blemmyes and Nubadia as a party and Diocletian the other side of the treaty.
Cautious historians, including Dijkstra, offer us a more balanced view of the truth of the matter whether the end of ancient cults with elephants directly provoked a Christian desire to annihilate a “pagan” cult or as a result of a slow process of change, some destiny, or the forgetting of the ancient worship.
Here, attention should be drawn to the text of Priscuc de Panium, a Greek historian of the fifth century, which centres on an issue related to the locals who bear the name of the Blemmyes and the Nubadis (the Blemmyes, local ethnic groups who have been given the consent or (possibility) to go from time to time or at least once a year. Sunnis to the island of Philae to worship the goddess Isis … It seems clear that the situation of both the Blemmyes and the Nobadians remains special. It can be reasonably believed that they cannot be mixed with the Egyptian family of the priests of Isis Philae; this is confirmed by a papyrus which is a petition written by (Christian) priests from Kom Ombo. In the north, they complained about plunderers who carried out raids around 567 AD, and they reached the end of their area, i.e. tens of kilometres from the north of Philae, and considered them to be Blemmyes.
The Philae Temple dedicated to Isis was the last of the ancient Egyptian temples in which rituals and rituals were held for Isis. The worship of Isis in the later ages and the beginnings of the Christian era caused great anxiety and tension due to her popularity and her acquisition of knowledge and magical power, and because these abilities and knowledge could only be achieved through universal powers divine talents. Those worshipers were attacked with all cruelty. The believers of the Isis cult did not demand exclusive worship, but In practice, its supporters were many.
It is believed that the worship of Isis arrived in Pompeii around the year 100 BC. After the destruction of her first temple in the earthquake of 62 AD, it was completely rebuilt, provided numbers and decorations, and “liturgical” rituals were performed (and “liturgical” is a Greek word intended for “service” And the collection of liturgies, intended for worship and social prayers of all kinds), these services were full of rituals and singing and were held daily with the opening of the temple every morning until the night closing.
Finally, the Isis myth represents our feminine attributes – intuition, spiritual abilities,
Love, mercy, yin energies, the caring mother, the high priestess, the allegorical goddess in all ancient mythology (Egyptian, Greek, Roman) … she is the essence of the feminine energy that is a part of us all.