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Isis, {Lap-of-Power}.
ESYS
Alternate meanings: Exceeding-Queen. The-Throne, Spirit, She-Who-Weeps.
[to Whom the twelfth day of November, day 316, is dedicated in Her Cycle of Transformations]
Geography/Culture: Egyptian: adopted by many nations.
Linguistic Note: Isis, is the Graecinzed form of Egyptian Au-Set, `The-Throne'. Or some say it is a form or corruption of ish-ish, an onomatopoeic Asianic word signifying the sound of weeping, meaningful because She mourned for Osiris just as the moon was said to scatter dew.
Description: Goddess of the moon, mist, earth, fertility, magic and medicine; Controller of the annual rising of the Nile; Lady of ten thousand names; Mother of the sun; Culture-bringer; Health-giver; Inventrix of embalming.
Invocations, Pleas, Hymns and Other Homage to HER: Isis.
To Whom Sacred: flax-plant, the processing, spinning and weaving of it; corn and corn-grinding; tamarisk-tree; scorpion; snake; tat (knot of Isis, conceivably the origin of the term 'tatting'); the star Sirius; ship.
Festival: (in Rome) Navigium Isidis, MAR 05, which invoked the "blessing of Isis" for the safe arrival of the Egyptian corn that fed Rome, as navigation was resumed after the winter. One of the principla rituals was the procession of Her ship.
Male Associates: son, Horus, -----, by brother/consort, Osiris, -----.
Titles/Variants, etc:
- Title: Anquat, qv Satis.
- According to some sources She was identified with Athene, by the Greeks, {perhaps because of Her association with culture -- however, according to other sources they more often identified Athene with Neith.}
- The Egyptian form of Her name is sometimes transliterated as Au-Set, see below, and linguistic notes above.
- See also Calliope, the Greek Goddess associated with flax.
- Isis, was identified with Demeter, `Barley-Mother', by the Greeks.
- Identified with Hat-Hor, `House-of-Horus' when represented with solar-disk and cows horns.
- Associated with Heket, `Great-magician', qv.
- Title: Heq-Maa, `[Mother-of-Magical-Knowledge]', qv Heket.
- Title: Iahu, `Exalted- Dove', qv Eurynome.
- On Her arrival in Egypt Io, qv, became identified with Isis, {Lap-of-Power}.
- Perhaps equivalent to Lat, `Goddess', qv.
- Sometimes considered One of the Maati Goddesses, qv Maat.
- In Her grief for Ositis, She pre-figures Christian Mater-Dolorosa, Mourning-Mother, qv Mary.
- In some texts Isis, {Lap-of-Power}, is associated with Mehurt, [?\cyc\m\Mehurt], qv.
- She is also called Meri, {Sea-Queen} below.
- Isis, {Lap-of-Power}, may be one person of the quadrupled Meshkhent, Place-Where-One-Delivers, qv.
- In "later times" (this vague term was used by my source and there's no knowing quite what it means), Isis, {Lap-of-Power}, is said to be the Daughter of Neith, World-Weaver, qv.
- Mut, Mother, qv, is sometimes identified with Isis, {Lap-of-Power}.
- She is often associated with Nebthet, Mistress-of-the-Palace'.
- She is also titled Neter-Mut, Mother-of-God', below.
- Daughter (and sister) of Nut, Night-sky', qv.
- She is equated with Opet, {Great-One}, in Ptolemaic times, also sometimes said to be the Daughter of Opet.
- Title: Satis, She-Who-Runs-Like-An-Arrow.
- The Greeks apparently also identified Her with Selene, Who is linked with Phoebe, affirming Her association with the moon.
- Aspect or companion Selket, {Scorpion}.
- Title: Sochit, Cornfield, {this association with agriculture perhaps occasioned Her identification with Demeter}.
- Title: Sothis, linked with Satis, She-Who-Runs-Like-An-Arrow.
- Also called: Stella-Maris, Star-of-the-Sea, below.
- Under the title:
Tcherau-Ur
, ----, She was personified by a woman during funeral ceremonies.
Source: Funk & Wagnall SDFML 529; GE.B; Graves WG/337; Wallis Budge BD/248.
Au-Set, The-Throne.
9-S]T
Geography/Culture: Egyptian.
Linguistic Note: This is the name that was Grecianised into the familiar Isis.
Titles/Variants, etc:
- Transliteration variant:
Aset
.
- Transliteration variant:
Auzit
.
Meri, {Sea-Queen}.
M=RE
Geography/Culture: Egyptian.
Description: Goddess of the sea; Stellar Maris; matroness of sailors.
Titles/Variants, etc:
- Hat-Hor, Womb-of-the-Sun, is also called Meri, {Sea-Queen}.
- Alternate name for Isis, Lap-of-Power, above.
- Perhaps the origin of the name of Mary, {Sea-Queen}.
Neter-Mut, Mother-of-God.
NATAr
Geography/Culture: Egyptian.
Linguistic Note: Of course I don't know how to pronouce ancient Egyptian (Note #1), but in making the above guess at a pronunciation for Neter (which means divinity) I find it significantly easy to identify with English Nature.
Titles/Variants, etc:
- Alternate name for Isis, Lap-of-Power, above.
- In this sense too, She seems to pre-figure Mary, {Sea-Queen}.
Stella-Maris, Star-of-the-Sea.
ST]L1-M*RYS
Linguistic Note: Latin translation of an Egyptian title of Isis, Lap-of-Power.
Titles/Variants, etc:
- Title of Isis, Lap-of-Power, above .
- This title was adopted by Christianity as a title for Mary, {Sea-Queen}. v.
worked on: July 1990; July, August 1991; February 1992; July 1994; July 1995.
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