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Isis & the Dark Night of the Soul
A depiction of the Dark Night of the Soul: Ce Que Je Suis by angelitonegro on Deviant Art With the world seemingly crumbling about our ears, we have very good reasons to be depressed. This is a hard...
View ArticleA Visit to my Isis Shrine
Here’s a short phone video of the sacred images and other things in my personal Isis shrine and I invite you to take a tour. The audio is low because I was whispering. It was early. I was not quite...
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“Isis with the Lapis Lazuli Head”?
22nd dynasty; Isis and Horus protect Osiris, seated on a lapis lazuli pillar Weird. That’s what I thought, too, the first time I saw that description. Why does Isis have a lapis lazuli head? And what...
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Isis the Mother
The Mother Here are some lines (though not all of them) from a particularly interesting New Kingdom hymn to the Goddess. I have simplified some of the lacunae and made the appropriate capitalizations....
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Samhain for Isis Devotees?
Did you see the glorious moon last night on All Hallows Eve? I was with a few friends as we watched it rise, full and brilliant, coming up over the horizon. Our shadows were long and long in the cool,...
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Milk & the Magic of Isis
One of thousands of such beautiful Isis-nursing-Horus images that remain to us Just a note of joy before we start this post: Ahhhhhhhh. Many blessings to those who worked magic, who worked their butts...
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Are Isis & Iset (Aset) the same Goddess?
This wonderful artwork is by Kaede-chama at Deviant Art. See more work here. For those of you familiar with the Isis-verse, this is a perennial topic of conversation, discussion, and often,...
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Chinese Isis?
Welcome to another edition of Weird Places We Find Isis. This is an odd story and it connects two phenomena of the 17th century: Egyptomania and Chinoiserie. At the time, Europeans were obsessed both...
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Isis, Lady of Crocodiles
A beautiful image of Sobek, the Crocodile God We don’t usually think of Isis in relation to crocodiles or to Sobek, the Crocodile God. Ahh, but wait. As with so much in Egyptian religion, it’s...
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Isis-Ma’at, Lady of Truth
Ma’at, the Goddess of Truth & Rightness, can be identified by the Feather of Truth upon Her head. As I am sure you know, Ma’at is the Egyptian Goddess of Truth, Universal Order, and Right. The...
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Here comes the Sun Goddess
Isis, we drink Your sunlight. Radiant One, we breathe You in. Isis, we eat Your magic. Radiant One, take us within, O Isis…A modern chant celebrating Isis as Goddess of the Sun The sun, low in the sky...
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Isis & the Holiday Tree
A priest censes an offering arrangement of onions decorated with floral garlands. The author of one article I read thought this looked amazingly like a Christmas tree; it’s not, but it’s a fun idea....
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Isis, Our Lady of the New Year
This is a revised repost, dear Isiacs…and a little earlier than my usual Sunday posts. But don’t click away. There’s a secret here that all who love our Goddess should know. In fact, I repost this...
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Beautiful Mourner, Weep with Me
This is something I posted…oh, about four years ago. If you are mourning now—for some reason—I offer it again to you. Thalia Took’s beautiful image of Isis mourning. You can get prints of this work...
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Magical Images & Our Lady of Magic
A female image in hippopotamus ivory from the early predynastic period from Badari As with so many things in Egyptology, there’s controversy surrounding the many female figurines that have been found...
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Isis the Trickster
Isis is one of the few Trickster Goddesses and I kinda like that about Her… Ah, the Trickster Deity. The one Who shakes things up, Who always has creative, boundary-crossing solutions to problems. The...
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An Ancient Isis Method of Divination
I have something old/new for you this time. A Coptic magical papyrus It’s old in that it is an ancient method of divination that is specifically connected with our magical Lady Isis. It is (a bit) new...
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A New Festival of Light for Isis?
I honor Our Lady of the Returning Light The return of the light, here and now—in mid-winter—is always a hopeful time. And I do feel hopeful; more now than in the past year. When more light fills our...
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Iset Demdjet, the Bone Collector
Bone Woman, Crone Woman by Joan Riise. Find her work here. We know quite a lot about the history of the Great Goddess Isis. For instance, we know that She was already important by the time of the...
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Isis, the Only One
I very much like this Cosmic Isis by artist Dahlia Khodur. Here’s a link to her Instagram. In Egypt, She was called T3 w’t (Tah Uwah-et), “The Only One.” In Greek, this same epithet of the Goddess...
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