Goddess Maat

Goddess Maat name

Goddess Maat

Goddess Maat was the ancient Egyptian prosopopoeia of the world-order, comprising the concepts of judge, truth and legality. She was thought to be the daughter of God Ra, the  creator  of  the  world.  The  Pharaoh was the beloved of Maat, he who lives in her through his laws. A precious venue for judicial audiences was at the shrines of the goddess, and the judges were regarded as her priests. In art, Maat is shown with an ostrich plume on her head.

Other Roles for Maat

• Goddess Maat and the law
• Goddess Maat and Scribes
• Maat as a Goddess
• Maat the Goddess of Truth and Justice

Isis and the Egyptian Magic

Isis the Goddess
of Magic

It was told that Isis tricked Ra into telling her his "deep name," by doing a snake to bite him, for which only Isis had the heal. Knowing the deep name of a god enabled one to have power of the deity. The use of close names became essential in many late Egyptian magic spells. By the late Egyptian early period, after the businesses by the Greeks and the Romans, Isis became the most essential and most powerful deity of the Egyptian pantheon because of her spiritual skills. Magic is central to the whole mythology of Isis, arguably more than any fantastic Egyptian deity.

Isis had a central role in Egyptian magic spells and ritual, specially those of protection and healing. In many patches, she also is completely united even with Horus, where conjurations of Isis are supposed to involve Horus's powers automatically as well. In Egyptian history the image of a hurt Horus became a frequent feature of Isis's healing spells, which typically raised the organic powers of the milk of Isis.

Isis and Osiris, (Myth)

Isis and Osiris

The myth of Osiris and Isis a tale of death and resurrection, was serious to Egyptian sacred beliefs and material all the crucial components of Egyptian funerary rites. No complete Egyptian simulate of the myth of Isis and Osiris exists, but the greatest ancient interpretation comes from Plutarch, a Greek priest at Delphi, who wrote De Iside Et Osiride about a.d. 100. The two principal gods, Isis and Osiris, were brother and sister and husband and wife. Their brother, Set, and their sister, Nephthys, were as well husband and wife. Osiris brought civilization to Egypt by presenting raising and cattle raising to the early habitant of the Nile Valley, and Isis taught the people the art of whirling and weaving. So prosperous was Osiris in his charge that he set out to bring growing and cattle producing to neighboring countries. He left Isis, the goddess of magic, to watch over the people of Egypt and to keep their bad brother Set in check. While her conserve was gone, Isis ruled the land wisely and controlled Set, who was secretly platting against his brother.

When Osiris returned to Egypt, Set, by trickery, held the exact body measurements of his brother Osiris and established a enjoyable wooden chest to his proportions. Set then invited Osiris to a lavish banquet and  offered  the  beautiful  chest  to  any  guest  who could  fit  inside.  Guest  after  guest  tried  and  failed. Osiris climbed into the bureau that fit him utterly. Set  immediately  sealed  it  shut,  swarmed  molten  lead over it, and made the chest into the River Nile. When Isis heard  of  her  husbands  death,  she  wept  and  began searching for the chest that held Osiriss body. During  a  bad  storm  at  sea,  the  chest  sticky  up  on the shores of Byblos in Phoenicia (modern Lebanon) and came to rest in the limbs of a tamarisk tree. In time the tree grew to unique size, and the trunk  encompassed  the  chest  with  the  dead  Osiris inside. While she was smart for Osiris, Isis had a vision and saw the chest in Byblos.