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Isis

majorattestedAttested from c. 2400 BCEEgyptian religion

Egyptian goddess of magic, healing and motherhood.

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✦Signature powerWords of PowerKnows the hidden true names that command life and death.
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Its universe

The mythic order Isis belongs to, who comes before and after in the story of this world.

The same idol, across the ages

Scholars have long read Isis as one face of a wider figure that recurs under many names through history: the divine wisdom.

2400 BCEIsisEgyptian religion1200 BCEAthenaGreek mythologyMythicSophiaGnosticismMythicHokhmahJudaism
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Voices & connections

Figures bound to Isis, family and rivals within the myth, and the thinkers and writers who shaped how we know them.

The Divine Feminine (Wisdom)associated withOsirismarried to

Read the story

Illustrated chapters where Isis appears. Start reading in a click.

Illustrated storyThe Death of OsirisThe good king is tricked into a coffin measured to his own body, sealed in at a banquet by his brother Set, and carved into fourteen pieces scattered the length of the Nile. Isis, the great enchantress, finds thirteen of them and rebuilds her husband with words of power. He does not come back to life; he becomes the reason there is life after it, first mummy, judge of the dead, father of his own avenger.Begin reading →