Isis and the Seven Scorpions

Isis in a scorpion form

Afterwards the death of Osiris, Isis was confronted with many hard knocks. Her evil brother Set held Isis and the infant Horus captive in a house (See [Conflict between Horus and Set (Mythology)]). Thoth, the great god of wisdom and magic,  came  to  Isis  and  pepped up  her  to  escape  from Set and to hide her child in a papyrus brushwood in the fens of the Delta. Seven scorpions, who were a demonstration of Selket the scorpion goddess, guided Isis as she fled her vicious brother Set. As she traveled to the Delta, Isis sought shelter one night with the wife of  the  township  official,  but  when  the  woman  saw  the seven scorpions accompanying Isis, she shut her door and  rejected  them  refuge.  Angered  because  Isis had been treated so badly, six scorpions abandoned their poison on the tip of the tail of the seventh scorpion, and the seventh entered the house of the inhospitable woman and burned her son. The excited woman ran through the town crying and bitter, for she did not know if her child would live or die. Upon hearing the screams of the mother, Isis felt sad, for the child had done nothing wrong, and she visited to the woman, Come to me, for my speech has the power to pro-tect, and it has life. Isis settled her hand upon the child and radius, O poison of Tefen, come forth, and come out on the ground! For I am Isis the goddess, and I am the lady of language of power, and I know how to  work  with  words  of  power,  and  strong  are  my words! The poison left the child and he lived.

Then Isis said to the seven scorpions, I speak to you, for I am unique and my regret is greater than that of anyone in all the Nomes of Egypt. . . . Turn your faces down to the ground and lead me to the swamps and the occult places.

Isis as a Mother of Horus

Goddess Isis nursing Horus

It is in this  aspect that the goddess was regarded as the vital link between gods and royalty, since the king was the living Horus on  the  throne  of  Egypt.  In  the Pyramid Texts  it  is  stated  that  the  rule drinks divine milk from the boobs of his mother Isis.  This  is  the  mental imagery  of  the plethora of statuettes of Isis sat on a throne,  suckling  the  young  Horus  who sits on her lap. The goddess was thought to have given birth to her son at Khemmis in  the  Delta,  rewarding  the  connexion with the monarchy since the place name in its ancient Egyptian form of Akh-bity substance papyrus  thicket  of  the  king  of Lower Egypt. Her part as a goddess protective royal births is got in the Middle Kingdom account  in  the  Papyrus Westcar promising a dynastic change: Isis takes into  her  arms  all  of  the  first  three pharaohs of the Dynasty V as Ruddedet makes them birth.

Isis  intends  to  bring  up  Horus  in secret so that he might eventually avenge the character assassination of his father. This close holding of Horus from danger gets a  frequent  point  of  reference  in  magical texts  concerning  cures  for  children's ailments  leading  from  hazards  like scorpion  bites,  or  accidental  scalds.  Isis visited great of magic is evoked to come to the child's aid as if it were Horus himself.  A  spell  against  a  fire,  e.g.  is recited over a concoction of human milk, gum  and  cat  hairs,  to  be applied  to the separated child: in it Isis, narrated that her son lies  in  the  desert  hurt  from  a burn with no water to clear him, gives the assurances that her saliva and piss (which she euphemistically addresses  the River Nile flood between my thighs) feature the power to ease the pain.

Isis and Nephthys

Goddess Isis and her sister Nephthys mourned  the  death  of  Osiris, and while they shown their grief, the sisters cautiously made the body of Osiris for divine mummification.  As  protectors  of  Osiris,  they  became  the protectors  of  all  mummies.  Their  images  look  on coffins  and  on  canopic jar  boxes,  where  they  guard the mummified variety meats of the passed. Sometimes the sisters are represented as hucksters wearing their respective symbols on their heads: 8 Isis and 3 Nephthys, their  extended  wings  protecting  the  broken. In the Book of the Dead, Isis and Nephthys  come along with the sun God Ra when he checks for his annual  journey through the Netherworld.

Goddess Isis

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Goddess Isis

Goddess Isis was Egyptian goddess. In root she was possibly the prosopopoeia of the throne, considered as a (female) deity; and she admits on her head the  determinant  of  the  seat  of  agency. The  myth  tells  how  she  sought  out  her good brother and husband Osiris from whom  she  got  the child Horus; she forgot him and mourned him unitedly with her sister Nephthys. When, later, every dead person came to be discovered with Osiris, she became protector of the dead.  As  she  who  is  rich  in  spells (Urthekau)  she  was  accepted  into  the world  of  magic  and  sorcery.  From the Middle Kingdom forwards, her solar aspect  is  displayed  in  her  epithet  eye of Ra.

Beside that, Isis was the queen of Sirius, and Greek sources (e.g. Plutarch) represented her as a moon goddess. In the Hellenistic period, Isis got frequenter of sea-farers,  and  was  given  a  rudder  as property. She was, with very few exclusions, portrayed in human shape; the cows horns and the sun disc she bears on her head she owes to her concretion with the figure of Hathor.

The Roles of Goddess Isis:

• Isis as Sisterwife of Osiris
• Isis and Nephthys
• Isis as a Mother of Horus
• Isis and the Seven Scorpions
• Isis's Tenacity and Guile
• Isis and Hathor
• Isis and Osiris, (Myth)
• Isis and the Egyptian Magic

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.

Goddess Imentet

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Goddess Imentet greeting
King Horemheb (inside
his tomb)

Goddess Imentet, or Amentet, was a goddess of the dead, Amentet is the personification of  the  west,  the  home  of  the  gone.  Amentet, a sympathize with  companion,  helps  the  souls  of  the dead journey to their living direct in the Nether-world. From her home in the branches of a tree at the border of the desert, Amentet watched for the souls as they  approached  the  charm  to  the  Netherworld, or next world. Its positioning was believed to be in the western desert. Amentet extended bread and water to the beat souls, and if they accepted her hospitality, it  meant  they  walked  with  the  gods  and  would peacefully introduce the next world. The ancient Egyptian word amentet means the infrared place, the land of the going down sun, where the broken gained for their  trying  journey  through  the  12  hours  of  the Duat in the dedicated boat of the sun God Ra. Another translation of the myth states us that Amentet met the souls of the broken at the end of their journey  to  the  Netherworld.  Here  the  goddess  assisted with  the  rebirth  of  their  souls  and  admitted  them with food and drink.

Amentet  frequently  seems  in  the  company  of  other goddesses  connected  with  fertility  and  resurrection. Sometimes she is a winged goddess, on with Isis and  Nephthys  when  they  assist  with  the  magical resurrection  of  a  mummy.  When  Amentet  comes out with Hathor (Hathor-Amentet), she becomes a solar goddess  of  the  west.  She  is  often  in  the  company of  Re-Horakhty  (Horus  of  the  Two  Horizons). Together  they  received  the  souls  of  the  gone to  their  new  dwelling  place  in  the  Netherworld and  assisted  with  their  resurrection.  Amentet  besides sometimes came out with Iabet, who, as goddess of the east, was Amentets twin.

Goddess Hesat

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Goddess Hesat

Goddess Hesat was a cow goddess  who  nursed  the  children  of the gods and who gave birth to the king in the make of  the  golden  calf.  As  the  goddess  of  milk,  Hesat satisfied the thirst of world when she provided her divine milk, the beer of the souls. During the Late period (747-332 b.c.), Hesat was seen to be the mother of the Mnevis Bull and was rewarded  in the bull furore.

Goddess Shesmetet

Goddess Shesmetet was a leonine goddess, probably a  expression of  Sakhmet. Shesmetet gives  birth  to  the  king  matching  to  the Pyramid Texts and with the democratisation of  Egyptian  feeling  becomes  the mother  of  the  deceased  in  funerary papyri. In a spell to be recited on the last day of the year the name of Shesmetet is invoked  as  a  magical  force against monsters  of  slaughter. There  is  a  clue  to the exotic origins of this goddess in her epithet Lady  of  Punt,  i.e.  the  cense region near the coast of modern Eritrea.

Goddess Raet-Tawy

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Goddess Raet-Tawy name

Goddess Raet-Tawy or (Rattawy) is an ancient Egyptian solar goddess, the female expression of God Ra. First seems during the reign of the Fifth Dynasty, Raet is belike to have been a company of Ra from the come out, and did not have a break origin. Although she was visited the lady of the sky and the gods, she never given the grandness of Hathor, who was also considered the wife of God Ra (or, in other myths, his daughter).

Raet was of severe importance to established Ancient Egypt and predynastic, "for it was usual in the case of gods who were the production of the strictly dynastic period to pay [small] attention to the goddesses who were involved as their wives"

Raet was also considered a wife of Montu, and she formed a triple with him and Harpocrates in Karnak and Medamud. Her fete day was in the first month of the harvesting season. The substances of her cult were at Medamud, El-Tod, and Thebes. A average industrial from the Roman period with hymns to Raet has gone in fragments

Goddess Qetesh

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Goddess Qetesh

Goddess Qetesh was the Middle Eastern goddess of  dedicated  exaltation  and  sexual  pleasure, taken  in  the  New Kingdom  by  the Egyptians into a triad with the gods Min and Reshep. Her name, plausibly meaning the holy, passes no clew to her lines but she  appears  to  be  a  manifestation  of  the sensuousness  inherent  in  the  goddesses Astarte and Anat.

Qetesh rides naked on the back of a lion and holds out symbols of amativeness and fertility to her companions  lotuses for God Min and snakes or papyrus constitutes for Reshep. In the Levant the cult of Qetesh, like that of Astarte, taken her acolytes modeling  the  dedicated  marriage of the goddess  with  Reshep. This sexuality exposed  by  Qetesh  naturally  led  to  an designation  between  her  and  Goddess Hathor the Egyptian goddess of Love.

Goddess Sopdet

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Goddess Sopdet

Goddess Sopdet  embodying the  star  Sirius  (Dog-star),  herald  of  the annual  Nile  deluge  by  its  bright appearing  in  the  dawn  sky  in  July (Heliacal rising). The Egyptian name of this goddess is Sopdetfrom which gains the Greek version Sothis, ordinarily used in Egyptology. She is pictured as a lady with a star on her head.

Picture of Sopdet from tomb of Seti I

Maybe as early as Dynasty I Sothis is named bringer  of  the  New
Year  and  the Nile  alluvion   the  agricultural  calender leaded off  with  the  rise  of  the  river  Nile. Sothis so became linked  like the  constellation  Orion  with  the  successfulness leaving from the fertile silt forgot by the losing waters. In  the  Pyramid Texts,  where  there  is hard  prove  of  an  early  Egyptian astral cult, the king joins with his sister Sothis who  gives  birth  to  the  Morning-star.  She  is  likewise  the  kings  guide  in  the heavenly Field of Rushes. In afterwards funerary texts  of  broken  courtiers  Sothis  has got mother and nurse.

Goddess Anuket

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Goddess Anuket

Goddess Anuket was to begin with the personification and goddess of the Nile, in arenas such as Elephantine, at the start of the Nile's journey through Egypt, and in hot parts of Nubia. Anuket was break of a triad with the God Khnum, and the goddess Satis. It is potential that Anuket was seen the daughter of Khnum and Satis in this triple, or she may have been a junior consort to Khnum instead. Anuket was showed as a woman with a headdress of plumes (thought by most Egyptologists to be a detail deducting from Nubia). Her sacred animal was the gazelle. A  temple  dedicated  to  Anuket  was  erected  on  the  Island  of  Seheil.  Inscriptions  show  that  a  shrine  or  altar  was given  to  her  at  this  site  by  the  thirteenth  dynasty  Pharaoh  Sobekhotep  III.  Much  later,  during  the  18th dynasty, Amenhotep II paid a chapel to the goddes. During the New Kingdom, Anukets cult at Elephantine included a river procession of the goddess during the first month of Shemu. Dedications mention the prosodion festival of Khnum and Anuket during this time period.

Ceremonially,  when  the River Nile  went  its  annual  flood,  the  Festival  of  Anuket  begun.  People  threw  coins,  gold, jewelry, and precious gifts into the river, in thanks for the life-giving water and rendering benefits derived from the wealth left by her fertility to the goddess. The taboo held in different parts of Egypt, against eating distinct fish which were taken dedicated, was lifted during this time, indicating that a fish species of the Nile was a totem for Anuket and that they were consumed as part of the ritual of her leading religious fete.

Goddess Satet

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Goddess Satet

Goddess Satet  was  an  Egyptian  goddess  acclaimed  as the Mistress of the Elephantine. Primitively a goddess of  the  hunting,  Satet  gone  patroness  of  the  Nile  Rivers inundations and was connected with the first cataract of the  Nile,  south  of Aswan. Senusret III (1878-1841 B.C.E.) built a canal in her observe. Satet's cult  dates  to  c.  2900  B.C.E. on  Elephantine Island. Her temple come out as a rock ecological niche there, accepting magnificence  over  the  centuries.  Also  addressed  (She  Who Runs  Like  an  Arrow),  Satet  was  a  associate  of  the God Khnum and the mother of Anukis. She was revered as the  patronne  of  the  southern  frontier,  the  one  who broken the life-giving waters of the Nile. Upper Egypt was sometimes addressed Ta-Satet, the Land of Satet.

Likewise associated with protective the Egyptians in war, Satet  held  arrows  to  slay  the  countries  enemies. The pyramid texts list her as the purificator of the gone, and her name was discovered in the Saqqara necropolis. She was  described  as  a  woman  enduring  the  white  crown  of Upper Egypt and carrying a bow and arrows or an ankh. In  some  pictures,  the  white  crown  on  her  head  had antelope  horns  extending  on  either  position.  She  was  also shown heavy the vulture headdress, ordinarily held to  queens  who  had  given  birth  to  successors.  Satet's particular home  was  Sehel Island.  She  may  to begin with  have  been  a Nubian goddess.