ISIS

Isis
The Great Lady; Queen of Earth; Light Giver of Heaven; Mistress of Magic; The Many Named; Queen of the Throne; She Who Is Rich in Spells; Great of Sorcery; Redemptress; Star of the Sea; The One Who is All; Mother of Gods

Isis maybe the most venerated goddess on Earth. Venerated in Egypt for thousands of years, her worship eventually spread from East Africa throughout Western Asia and Europe as far as England’s Thames River.

Dynamo walking on the river Thames

Isis is the lady of many names and many forms. She is the greatest sorceress on Earth.

Isis maybe the unnamed narrator of the Gnostic poem,

Thunder, Perfect Mind

I am the first and the last.
I am the honored one and the scorned one.
I am the whore and the holy one.
I am the wife and the virgin.
I am the mother and the daughter.
I am the members of my mother.
I am the barren oneand many are her sons.I am she whose wedding is great

and I have not taken a husband.I am the midwife and she who does not bear.
I am the solace of my labor pains.
I am the bride and the bridegroom,
and it is my husband who begot me.
I am the mother of my fatherand the sister of my husbandand he is my offspring.
I am the slave of him who prepared me.
I am the ruler of my offspring.
But he is the one who begot me before the time on a birthday.
And he is my offspring in (due) time,
and my power is from him.
I am the staff of his power in his youth,
and he is the rod of my old age.
And whatever he wills happens to me.I am the silence that is incomprehensible
and the idea whose remembrance is frequent.I am the voice whose sound is manifold

and the word whose appearance is multiple.
I am the utterance of my name.
Why, you who hate me, do you love me?

and hate those who love me?
You who deny me, confess me,
and you who confess me, deny me.
You who tell the truth about me, lie about me,
and you who have lied about me, tell the truth about me.
You who know me, be ignorant of me,
and those who have not known me, let them know me.
For I am knowledge and ignorance.I am shame and boldness.
I am shameless; I am ashamed.I am strength and I am fear
I am compassionate and I am cruel.
Be on your guard!
Do not hate my obedience
and do not love my self-control.
In my weakness, do not forsake me,
and do not be afraid of my power.
For why do you despise my fear
and curse my pride?
But I am she who exists in all fears
and strength in trembling.
I am she who is weak,
and I am well in a pleasant place.I am senseless and I am wise.
Why have you hated me in your counsels?
For I shall be silent among those who are silent,
and I shall appear and speak,
Why then have you hated me, you Greeks?
Because I am a barbarian among the barbarians?
For I am the wisdom of the Greeksand the knowledge of the barbarians.I am the judgement of the Greeks and of the barbarians.I am the one whose image is great in Egypt

and the one who has no image among the barbarians.
I am the one who has been hated everywhere
and who has been loved everywhere.I am the one whom they call Life,
and you have called Death.

I am the one whom they call Law,
and you have called Lawlessness.
I am the one whom you have pursued,
and I am the one whom you have seized.
I am the one whom you have scattered,
and you have gathered me together.
I am the one before whom you have been ashamed,
and you have been shameless to me.
I am she who does not keep festival,
and I am she whose festivals are many.

I, I am godless,
and I am the one whose God is great.
I am the one whom you have reflected upon,
and you have scorned me.
I am unlearned,
and they learn from me.
I am the one that you have despised,
and you reflect upon me.
I am the one whom you have hidden from,
and you appear to me.
But whenever you hide yourselves,
I myself will appear.
For whenever you appear,
I myself will hide from you.
Why do you curse me and honor me?
You have wounded and you have had mercy.
I know the first ones and those after them know me
and the finding of those who seek after me,
and the command of those who ask of me,
I am the one who is honored, and who is praised,
and who is despised scornfully.I am peace,
and war has come because of me.

And I am an alien and a citizen.

I am the substance and the one who has no substance.
Those who are without association with me are ignorant of me,
and those who are in my substance are the ones who know me.
Those who are close to me have been ignorant of me,
and those who are far away from me are the ones who have known me.
On the day when I am close to you, you are far away from me,
and on the day when I am far away from you, I am close to you
I am control and the uncontrollable.
I am the union and the dissolution.
I am the abiding and I am the dissolution.I am the one below,

and they come up to me.
I am the judgment and the acquittal.
I, I am sinless,
and the root of sin derives from me.I am lust in (outward) appearance,

and interior self-control exists within me.
I am the hearing which is attainable to everyone
and the speech which cannot be grasped.
I am a mute who does not speak,
and great is my multitude of words.
Hear me in gentleness, and learn of me in roughness.
I am she who cries out,
and I am cast forth upon the face of the earth.
I prepare the bread and my mind within.
I am the knowledge of my name.
I am the one who cries out,
and I listen.
What is inside of you is what is outside of you,
and the one who fashions you on the outside
is the one who shaped the inside of you.
And what you see outside of you, you see inside of you;
it is visible and it is your garment.
I am the name of the sound
and the sound of the name.

I am the sign of the letter
and the designation of the division.
To the one who created me,
 I will speak his name.
Give heed then, you spirits who have arisen from the dead.
For I am the one who alone exists,
and I have no one who will judge me.
For many are the pleasant forms which exist in numerous sins,
disgraceful passions and fleeting pleasures,
which (men) embrace until they become sober and go up to their resting place.
They will find me there and they will live,
and they will not die again.

Isis is a cow-goddess. Her devotees traditionally refrain from consuming beef.

Veneration of Isis was officially introduced to Rome in 86 BCE.

She is perceived as a primary competitor of early Christians.

Stella Maris; Theotokos, and Mother of God may have evolved into Kwan Yin.

Favored People Theoretically everyone, but especially women, single mothers, orphans, occultists, and mariners.

Manifestation Isis is an incredible magician can take any form she chooses. She may manifest as a cow, kite, or swallow. She may appear as a beautiful queen, a pregnant woman, or a woman absolutely devastated by despair and grief.

Iconography Isis is portrayed in many forms:

- Traditionally images of Isis are the prototype of the modern Madonna and Child. A woman, frequently carved from black stone, which in Egyptian cosmology represents eternal life, holds a nursing baby to her breast.

- She wears a crown topped by a throne (the meaning of her name, ”The Throne”)

- The Louvre Museum in Paris possesses a rare terra-cotta image of beautiful Isis weeping for her true love, Osiris

God and Goddess Allies Isis is frequently accompanied by an entourage of Gods and Goddesses, including; Anubis, Nephthys, Osiris and the Scorpion Guardians.

Emblem The tyet amulet (also known as the Buckle of Isis or Blood of Isis). It’s a protective amulet usually formed from cornelian or red glass and representing the goddess’ menstrual blood.

Colors Black, blue

Element Water

Botanicals Vervain, myrrh tree, sycamore fig

Mineral Bloodstone

Metal Gold

Sacred Creatures Snakes, cows, crocodiles, scorpions, kites (type of raptor), swallow

Planet Moon

Constellation Virgo

Scared Sites There is a theory that the name Paris derives from Par-Isis, meaning the barque or grove of Isis.