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ISIS THE VIRGIN MOTHER

Many elements of the Isis legend and the story of the Virgin Mary are very similar, for both were able to conceive without male impregnation. Horus was conceived and born after the death of Isis' husband, and, as such, she was revered as the Vir gin Mother.

Isis is the power responsible for the creation of all living creatures.

Isis is the Greek translation of the Egyptian Aset. Aset, in Egyptian, means throne.

Isis is portrayed wearing the vulture headdress, or the crescent and disk, with a pair of horns surrounding the disk. Sometimes she is shown in purely human form.

Isis was related to the star Sirius, who like her, was called the Great Provider.

Since Isis) had many names and forms, she was called Isis with the ten thousand names (attributes). Isis was equated with Persephone, Ceres and Athene, in Greek mythology.

Her temple is located on Philae. This temple was begun under the Ptolemies and finished under the Romans. It was built on a site which was used previously, and its Egyptian name, meaning Island of the Time of Ra, suggests an extremely remote antiquity.

At Philae, Isis was revered in a fashion similar to the reverence accorded to Mary, the biblical mother of Jesus, at a later time in history.