Temple of Isis, Philae, Egypt. Dynasty XXVI, 530 B.C.

This relief shows Isis protecting her husband Osiris with her wings.
A pharaoh is also shown offering a libation to them. Isis together
with her husband Osiris and their son Horus formed the main triad of
the Egyptian religion. The name Isis means "Seat" or "Throne". She
was regarded as the symbolical mother of the King. In myth she sought
her dead husband and brother, Osiris, conceived her son Horus by him,
buried and mourned him together with her sister Nephtys. Isis was
regarded as the “Eye of Ra” and was worshipped as the "Great of Magic"
who had protected her son Horus from snakes, predators and other
dangers; thus she would protect mortal children also. In the New
Kingdom Isis was closely connected with Hathor whose physical
attributes, the cow's horns and sun-disk she adopted. The Ancient
Egyptians regarded the Goddess as the "Eye of Ra". Osiris, the
Resurrection God, is the central figure in the afterlife myth and in
Egyptian mythology as a whole. His name means "The Seat of the Eye".
 

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