![]() ![]() Her siblings are Osiris, Set and Nephthys, her sister. Her mother was Nut, goddess of the sky, and her father Geb, god of the earth. Isis was one of the nine gods of the Ennead of Heliopolis, descended from Atum, also called Ra. ![]() 1-191) of Volume V of the Loeb Classical Library edition. You can read the complete text of Plutarch’s Moralia, On Isis and Osiris, courtesy of Bill Thayer’s complete rekeying of Frank Cole Babbitt’s translation (pp. He does not understand who and what The Queen of Heaven is.Īs far back as historians can trace, Isis was first mentioned during the Old Kingdom ( circa 2686-2181 BCE, Fifth Dynasty) at the heart of the Osiris myth, which is the core myth of the Egyptian legendarium. I sense that Zelazny wrote this as revelation, the words were delivered to him by an unfathomable agency. I love that Lady Isis is a protagonist, but Zelazny fails to accord her her proper place. This relief is from the foot of the sarcophagus of Ramses III. ![]() Winged Isis, flanked by jackals of Anubis, with her throne icon on her head. ![]()
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