Egypt · Magic, kingship and mourning
Isis ꜣs.t
Also written Aset and Auset.
- God of
- Magic, kingship and mourning
- Recognised by
- A woman wearing a throne on her head, or cow horns with the sun disk
- Chief cult centre
- Philae
The most capable magician among the gods: she restores Osiris, protects Horus, and in one famous story extracts Ra's secret name by poisoning him and withholding the cure. Her cult outlasted Egyptian religion itself and spread across the Roman empire.
Egyptian sources What Egyptians wrote, on walls, coffins and papyri. What that means
In the correspondence web
Herodotus gives the Greek name of Isis as Demeter, in Book II, 156. Isis in the correspondence web, with the sentence it rests on.