Looks: On tablets and statues, Isis was portrayed as the giver, and greeter to all. In one of her most recognizable statues, she is featured breast feeding baby Anubis in a chair. She is usually shown wearing a very large and pronounced hat. This symbolizes her rank and stature in the god's society. Some of her other pictures feature her with giant bird wings. In these pictures the wings are attached to her arms, from mid bicep down to her hand. She was also shown wearing a chair statue on her head dress. On some artifacts she was shown wearing a sun disk between two cow horns on top of her head. In all of her pictures she was always seen wearing very decorative clothing and jewelry.
Significance: She was one of the most well known goddesses in Egyptian Mythology. Her name, Isis, means chair. Symbolic to her aptitude for helping people. Isis was the goddess of simplicity, and the model for the perfect mother and wife. She was depicted as a sorceresses, magician, and spell weaver. She only used her talents to help her citizens. The most well known story of her is about her husband, and brother. She married her brother Osiris. While Osiris was traveling around the world he was assassinated (for more info go to Osiris and Set's page). He was put into a coffin and dropped into the Nile river. The coffin was cast onto the Phoenician coastal shore. The coffin came into contact with a newborn tree. Once the coffin touched the tree, it grew so rapidly that it totally engulfed the coffin inside of the trunk. A neighboring ruler wanted to use this tree as part of his palace. Isis sensed this and pleaded with the ruler to give her the coffin. After the coffin was in her position she tried to hide it so no one could corrupt his body. The body was found however, and cast about the world in fourteen different pieces. She found all the pieces and carried them back to her province. In the process she was impregnated by Osiris's remains. The child was known as Horus. With the help of Anubis's new found power of mummifying and embalming, she was able to restore Osiris's body to its original form. Because of her kindness she was granted abilities, by Ra, that could affect the other gods. Eventually she was so kind and un-asking she was granted with the all the powers of the other gods.
Family: She was married to her Brother Osiris, and had one other brother Set. Isis also had one child, Horus. She was the first daughter of Geb and Nut. She was believed to be born on the fourth intercalary day, for us that would be July 14.
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