Because this could be a perfect Mythical example that is directly related to the concept of Creation, what is meant.... What are the causes.... What are the procedures...
How it is inter-related to Science and Religion....
With Life and Death.....
With Good and Evil....
She was the Goddess of Motherhood, Fertility and Magic.
Her link to Magic is in her hair knot which became a symbol of Isis and called the Knot or Buckle or Blood of Isis, which later resembles Eternal Life or Resurrection.
She was a friend to good and bad people at the same time.
Her parents were the God of Earth and Goddess of Sky.
Her brother Osiris became her husband..
From him she conceived Horus... who was also her father and the ultimate God who had different forms in history.
It is suggested by some scholars that he name is also linked with the Arabian Goddess Al Ozza which was worshiped by Arabs before Islam.
The story tells that Set another brother of Isis, conspired against his brother Osiris by locking him in a coffin box and threw it in the sea... So he could marry his sister Isis.
Isis went to look for the coffin of Osiris and found him in a tree in Phoenician city Byblos and brought it back to Egypt..
Set found the coffin and chopped the body of Osiris to thirteen pieces and scattered them all over Egypt.
Each part represented one of the 13 full moons (each year has 12 or 13 full moons
Isis found only twelve pieces and made the thirteen's out of Magic
Osiris was resurrected and became Lord of Dead and Afterlife .
Isis conceived from him Horus.
Alternatively, the sister of Isis, Nephthys, shift-shaped as Isis and seduced Osiris, who thought she was Isis and conceived from him Anubis, God of Underworld, whose name was associated with mummification and afterlife.
Nephthys later convinced Isis to adopt Anubis.
As a death and resurrection legend, in which evil seeks to destroy a deity, thus bringing darkness, she associated with the lunar cycle, in which the moon appears to be destroyed by darkness, and is then brought back to life.
As a life-death-rebirth deity, Horus/Osiris became a reflection of the annual cycle of crop harvesting as well as reflecting people's desires for a successful afterlife, and so the legend became extremely important, outstripping all others.
The legend's ventures into both life and afterlife meant that religious rites associated with the legend eventually began to take on aspects of a mystery religion, where initiates were said to be able to partake in Horus/Osiris' resurrection, purging themselves of past ills, and entering a new life.
This is why Isis is also known as the goddess of simplicity, protector of the dead and goddess of children from whom all beginnings arose.
The Ancient Egyptians believed that the Nile River flooded every year because of her tears of sorrow for her dead husband, Osiris.
Isis was associated with the star Sept (Sirius).
The appearance of the star signified the advent of a new year and Isis was likewise considered the goddess of rebirth and reincarnation, and as a protector of the dead.
The Book of the Dead outlines a particular ritual that would protect the dead, enabling travel anywhere in the underworld, and most of the titles
So....
In this story we can see the full cycle of life being repeated again and again in various forms and shapes but always with the same fixed elements... Sun, moon, Earth, Sky, Sea, Nature, Darkness,Light, Fertility, motherhood, Death.. Etc...
But most importantly the Good and Evil who are in continious struggle to overcome the worlds...
Same like Religions tell us.....
And same like the Actual Facts are telling us
Sami Cherkaoui
Thanks for posting this. It was very informative.
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