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

Goddess Imentet name
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

Goddess Hesat name

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.

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