Isis as Sisterwife of Osiris

In the genealogy broken by the priests of Heliopolis, Isis was one of the children of God Geb and goddess Nut.  As  the  sister  whom Osiris  precious  on  earth she  devotedly serves him in the government of Egypt. In the  earliest  quotations  to  the  goddess  in the Pyramid Texts she looks to foresee his  murder  by  Set,  and  is  described  as sitting  black,  weeping  for  her brother.  After  his  death  she    and  her sister Nephthys  mourn inconsolably in the process of kites. She wearilessly seeks, and rules his body later her brother Set had set it into the Nile; she reassembles  Osiriss  remains  after  Seth  had  dismembered  it  and  broken  the  parts passim Egypt (see Osiris for more details of the myth). In the Great Hymn to Osiris on the stela of Amenemose (18th Dynasty) in  the  Louvre  Museum,  the  goddess  is imagined  as  a  kite  protectively  blending the god with her feather, the breeze created  by  her  wings  providing  breath  for him.  She  then  acts  as  a  hold  over  the god.  This  is  iconographically  read  in some statues by the goddess straight in human form, stretches forward her arms from which grow flies to flank the figure  of  Osiris  before  her a clear statement of how the Egyptians saw Isis as an example of supreme devotion to her husband. It is through her magic that Osiris names her pregnant  the god now leading Egypt for his purpose as Underworld Rex.

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