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Definitions of isis in various dictionaries:
noun - Egyptian goddess of fertility
noun - the Pakistan intelligence agency
An ancient Egyptian goddess of fertility, the sister and wife of Osiris.
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There's a temple for this Egyptian goddess preserved at Pompeii |
The Egyptians called this great goddess Eset; we know her by this, the Greek form of her name |
Io, a priestess at Argos in Greek myth, is identified with this Egyptian goddess |
Shazam! Cleopatra called herself the new this goddess |
The daughter of Geb & Nut, this Egyptian goddess was the sister-wife of Osiris |
In Egyptian mythology, the mother of Horus |
This Egyptian goddess learned the secret name of Ra & thus acquired his power |
This chief goddess of Egyptian myth is often described as wearing the horns of a cow |
Goddess depicted here in the tomb of Amenhotep II |
In Ancient Egypt Sirius was known as the Nile star or the star of this goddess |
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Any coral of the genus Isis, or family Isidae, composed of joints of white, stony coral, alternating with flexible, horny joints. |
Egyptian goddess of fertility daughter of Geb sister and wife of Osiris |
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Isis was a major goddess in ancient Egyptian religion whose worship spread throughout the Greco-Roman world. Isis was first mentioned in the Old Kingdom (c. 26862181 BCE) as one of the main characters of the Osiris myth, in which she resurrects her slain husband, the divine king Osiris, and produces and protects his heir, Horus. She was believed to help the dead enter the afterlife as she had helped Osiris, and she was considered the divine mother of the pharaoh, who was likened to Horus. Her maternal aid was invoked in healing spells to benefit ordinary people. Originally, she played a limited role in royal rituals and temple rites, although she was more prominent in funerary practices and magical texts. She was usually portrayed in art as a human woman wearing a throne-like hieroglyph on her head. During the New Kingdom (c. 15501070 BCE), as she took on traits that originally belonged to Hathor, the preeminent goddess of earlier times, Isis came to be portrayed wearing Hathor's headd |