When Osiris' treacherous brother, Set (Seth), murdered and dismembered him, Isis scoured the land to find the body parts and used her MAGIC to put them together and breathe life into the body so that she and Osiris could be together one last time before he left to rule the underworld. Isis (ATHANASIUS KIRCHER, oedipus jgyptiacus, 1652) She offered to relieve the pain if he would tell her his secret name, and he relented. She obtained some of his sPITTLE, made a snake from it and left the snake in his path. A mortal magician, Isis acquired immortality by tricking the sun god, Ra, into revealing his secret name. The name Isis is the Greek word for the Egyptian hieroglyphic for "throne." She was the sister and wife of the god Osiris. The worship of Isis was adopted by the Greeks and Romans. She is often shown crowned with a lunar orb nestled between the horns of a bull or ram. Isis is associated with Sirius, the dog star, the rising of which signals the vernal equinox.
Isis The ancient Egyptian Mother GoDDEss, the prototype of the faithful wife and fertile, protective mother. Ishtar was associated with the planet Venus. She was the giver of omens and prophecy through dreams, and through her magic, others could obtain secret knowledge. The Zodiac was known as the "girdle of Ishtar," which also refers to the ancient moon calendar. When Ishtar descended, both fertility and sexual desire went dormant, to await her seasonal return.Īs Queen of Heaven, Ishtar replaced Sin as the moon deity she rode through the sky at night in a chariot drawn by goats or lions. Ishtar descended to the realm of the dead to rescue Tammuz, a myth nearly identical to an earlier Sumerian myth of INANNA and Damuzi, and similar to the myth of DEMETER and Kore. Her son, Tammuz, also called the Green One, became her lover upon his reaching manhood. She was the Heavenly Cow, the Green One, the Mistress of the Field.
As goddess of the moon, her waxing and waning ruled the cyclical birth and death of the planet. As the many-breasted Opener of the Womb, she was the giver of all life as the Destroyer and Queen of the Underworld, she also was the taker of all life. She ruled over fertility, sex and war and protected man against evil. Worship of her spread throughout the Middle East, Greece and Egypt. Over the course of time, Ishtar absorbed the characteristics of other goddesses and so represents different aspects. Ishtar was said to be either the daughter of the sky god, Anu, or the MooN god, Sin. Ishtar The great mother GoDDEss of ancient Assyrian and Babylonian mythology. Funk & Wag-nall's Standard Dictionary of Folklore, Mythology and Legend. Leach, Maria, ed., and Jerome Fried, assoc.
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