As Frankfort notes, “the Egyptian gods are imperfect as individuals. These local groupings often contained a particular number of deities and were often constructed around the incontestably primary character of a creator god Despite this apparently unlimited diversity, however, the gods (unlike those in many other pantheons) were relatively ill-defined. The numerous inscriptions, stelae and papyri that resulted from this sudden stress on historical posterity provide much of the evidence used by modern archeologists and Egyptologists to approach the ancient Egyptian tradition The cults within this framework, whose beliefs comprise the myths we have before us, were generally fairly localized phenomena, with different deities having the place of honor in different communities. Indeed, it was during this relatively late period in Egyptian cultural development, a time when they first felt their beliefs threatened by foreigners, that many of their myths, legends and religious beliefs were first recorded. While some scholars suggest that even when 'these beliefs became remodeled by contact with Greece, in essentials they remained what they had always been', it still seems reasonable to address these traditions, as far as is possible, within their own cultural milieu. Indeed, as this period also saw an influx of immigrants from Greece, it was also at this point that the Hellenization of Egyptian religion began. This particular 'cut-off' date has been chosen because it corresponds to the Persian conquest of the kingdom, which marks the end of its existence as a discrete and (relatively) circumscribed cultural sphere. 6 Parallels in Catholicism and OrthodoxyĪs an Egyptian deity, Isis belonged to a religious, mythological and cosmological belief system developed in the Nile River basin from earliest prehistory to 525 B.C.E.Worship of Isis continued in pockets of Christian Europe as late as the sixth century. Temples dedicated to Isis have been found as far away as the British Isles. Unlike other Egyptian deities, Isis did not have a single, centralized location of worship at any point in her religious history and her temples eventually spread throughout the Middle East and into Europe. This process of syncretism became tremendously popular in Egypt's late classical period. Nevertheless, Isis' cult only became prominent during later periods of Egyptian history, when it began to absorb the veneration of many other goddesses. Isis' origins are uncertain but the first mention of the deity dates back to Egypt's Fifth Dynasty (2498-2345 B.C.E.) and the emergence of literary inscriptions. Mythologically, she was prominent as the wife and sister of Osiris and mother of Horus.

Isis was a goddess in ancient Egyptian mythology, often worshiped as the archetypal wife and mother. Isis with cow horns, solar disk, sitting on lion throne with Horus on her lap.

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