The Goddess Isis

Isis

by Beth

Isis was a teacher, mother, wife, protector. She is considered a faithful wife and loving mother, and friend to people in all walks of life. She embodies many of the qualities that provide us with a template for feminine empowerment. Isis was manipulative when she tricked Ra into telling her his true name, and as she cured him, but through her manipulation she became more powerful. Isis shows us the power of female spirit.

Isis is known to have taught many secrets to her people, the secrets of growing crops, how to use medicines to cure, she is a giver of knowledge and light as the mother of the Sun.

She reminds us that we need to renew and reconnect with people and remember who we are, to work on our relationships and to pay credence to our emotions. Isis allows herself to feel her own emotions.

Isis is the mother protector of all things. We see the themes of death, rebirth, love, empowerment, creation, loss, death, rebirth.

Isis teaches us to reconnect. From Isis we learn that it is okay to grieve, to cry, to show emotion. The celebration of the flooding of the Nile is dedicated to Isis. It is said that the Nile floods because she shed so many tears over the death of her beloved Osiris. She broke down after Set tricked him in to getting in to a coffin and floated him down the Nile. She went in search of his body. Once she found the body, Set learned where she hid Osiris and cut him into 14 pieces, throwing the pieces to be eaten by crocodiles.

In some versions of the myth, she becomes a sparrowhawk and fans life back into Osiris. In others she pieced him back together and created a phallus out of wood or gold, depending on the version of the myth. One common thread is that her patience and perseverance aided her search for Osiris’s body.

Her powerful love was able to recreate him and through that rebirth they magically created a child, Horus. Osiris went to live in the underworld after his death, but still watched over Isis and Horus. Isis is a creator of life in terms of birth with her son, and rebirth with her husband.
She is the magic that exists in every woman, she is simplicity, she is born of Chaos. Isis is everything except complacent and we can learn every day from her lessons. She is not a woman weakened by emotion, but a goddess empowered by her ability to experience emotion. She can aid us in our daily lives if we only remember that she created her own power.