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Isis Temple

Temple Site

The Temple of Isis: on the island of phillae. The last temple in egypt that was used as a place of worship and rituals. The temple has since been relocated to the neighboring island of Agilqiya.(pictured above)

The Temple of Augustus: at Dendera. This temple site is located within the holy grounds sacred to Hathor. Isis borrowed the horns of Hathor at one point. The link between the two is bound up in the kingship of the land.

The Temple of Sety I: at Abydos. Know for some of the most beautiful and detailed representations of the Goddess ever carved in egypt.

Deir El-Shelwit: on the western bank of Thebes. Small shrine built during roman period.

Temple of Isis 'Mistress of the pyramid': At Giza. Worship center of one of the queens east of the pyramid of Khufu. Behbeit El-Hagar 'Iseion': in the north-east Delta on the Damietta branch of the Nile. The Major cult center of Isis.

I have come to be a protector unto thee."
~ The Speech of Isis - Temple of Isis

Isis - Her Throne

Cult Center: A temple is dedicated to her on the Island of Philae, near the first cataract. She is revered throughout Egypt.

Attributes: Isis is one of the earliest and most important goddess in ancient Egypt. She was regarded as the feminine counterpart to Osiris, a role she probably occupied before the dawn of dynastic Egypt. No other Egyptian deity has stood the test of time as well as Isis. Her cult was not extinguished with the other Egyptian gods, but was embraced by the Greeks and Romans, her worship has even lasted into the present day. She was revered by the Egyptian people as the great mother-goddess and represents the maternal spirit in its most intimate form. She is often seen suckling a young Horus. In the Osiris legend she is seen as a dutiful wife, a grieving widow and as a protector of the dead.

As a winged goddess she may represent the wind. In the Osiris legend there are references to Isis wailing and moaning like the wind. She is also continually travelling up and down the land in search of her lost husband. Upon finding Osiris' body, she takes the shape of one of the swiftest birds, a kite. Flapping and darting above his dead body she wails in mourning. She restores life to Osiris by flapping her wings and filling his mouth and nose with air. Isis was a great enchantress, the goddess of magic. Together with Thoth, she taught mankind the secrets of medicine. She was the embalmer and gaurdian of Osiris. She is often rendered on the foot of coffins with long wings spread to protect the deceased.

Representation: A woman wearing on her head the hieroglyphic symbol of her name, which represents a throne or seat. Often seen wearing horns and a solar disk on her head. Sometimes she is pictured with wings, It is noteworthy that she is one of only a few deities that we find with wings in ancient Egyptian mythology.

Relations: Daughter of Nut and Geb. Sister of Osiris, Nephthys, and Seth. Wife of Osiris. Mother of Horus.

Isis ~ Mistress Of Magick ~

She was always known as Isis, and as patron of Women, Mothers, Children, Magick, Medicine and the Ritual of Life she was revered in all of Egypt, and later in Greece, Rome and even in India.

Her temples where found everywhere and shrines to her existed in just about every home, Isis is still widely worshipped to this day, though originally a stellar goddess her worship was later associated with the Moon and thus she is sometimes worshipped as a Moon Goddess.

Isis was pictured as a beautiful woman in magnificent clothing and sometimes with a sun disk on her head, where as many of the ancient Deities had various forms and variants, Isis was always depicted more or less the same and always known as Isis. This is a reflection of her importance and antiquity.

It is probably that Isis is the oldest of the deities found in Egypt, and definitely the oldest to have survived in the same form. Where as most of the other deities were worshipped widely throughout Egypt, Isis was worshipped by just about everyone in ancient Egypt as the Great Protector, giving guidance to her followers and seeking peace for all of the world. This makes her the major Goddess of the Egyptian Pantheon.

She was one of the more powerful deities too, probably more powerful that the mighty Ra, after all it was she who tricked Ra into revealing his secret name taking all his power, but not even this causes her to be portrayed as anything but loving, compassionate and merciful. Isis encompasses all the quality of womanhood.

Isis was the wife and sister to Osiris, and his female counterpart, equal and as powerful. As the daughter of Nut and Geb, and sister to Set and Nephthys she played an important part in the pantheon. In the Legend of Osiris she travel the world to find all the pieces of his body and brings him back to life with a bit of help from Thoth. Her associations with Thoth goes beyond this legend too, the two of them teach man the secrets of magick, medicine and farming.

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