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  2. Isis - Wikipedia

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    The Roman author Tacitus said Isis was worshipped by the Suebi, a Germanic people living outside the empire, but he may have mistaken a Germanic goddess for Isis because, like her, the goddess was symbolized by a ship. [193] Many of the aretalogies include long lists of goddesses with whom Isis was linked.

  3. Osiris myth - Wikipedia

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    Isis, in the form of a bird, copulates with the deceased Osiris. At either side are Horus, although he is as yet unborn, and Isis in human form. [37] Osiris's death is followed either by an interregnum or by a period in which Set assumes the kingship. Meanwhile, Isis searches for her husband's body with the aid of Nephthys. [36]

  4. Mysteries of Osiris - Wikipedia

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    [Note 10] The goddess Isis, the wife of Osiris, searched for the body of her husband and this quest brought her to the city of Byblos located in Phoenicia. Isis collected the chest from King Malcander and brought it back to Egypt. [42] From there, the story enters the crucial phase regarding the institution of the Mysteries:

  5. Osiris - Wikipedia

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    Osiris was at times considered the eldest son of the earth god Geb [8] and the sky goddess Nut, as well as being brother and husband of Isis, and brother of Set, Nephthys, and Horus the Elder, with Horus the Younger being considered his posthumously begotten son. [8] [9] Through syncretism with Iah, he was also a god of the Moon. [10]

  6. Sopdet - Wikipedia

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    During the Old Kingdom, she was an important goddess of the annual flood and a psychopomp guiding deceased pharaohs through the Egyptian underworld. During the Middle Kingdom , she was primarily a mother and nurse and, by the Ptolemaic period , she was almost entirely subsumed into Isis.

  7. Mysteries of Isis - Wikipedia

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    The mysteries of Isis were religious initiation rites performed in the cult of the Egyptian goddess Isis in the Greco-Roman world. They were modeled on other mystery rites, particularly the Eleusinian mysteries in honor of the Greek goddesses Demeter and Persephone, and originated sometime between the third century BCE and the second century CE.

  8. Set (deity) - Wikipedia

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    Osiris's sister-wife, Isis, reassembled his corpse and resurrected her dead brother-husband with the help of the goddess Nephthys. The resurrection lasted long enough to conceive his son and heir, Horus. Horus sought revenge upon Set, and many of the ancient Egyptian myths describe their conflicts. [7]

  9. Io (mythology) - Wikipedia

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    Io was a priestess of the goddess Hera in Argos, [5] [12] whose cult her father Inachus was supposed to have introduced to Argos. [5] Zeus noticed Io, a mortal woman, and lusted after her. In the version of the myth told in Prometheus Bound she initially rejected Zeus' advances, until her father threw her out of his house on the advice of ...