Saturday, January 31, 2015

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One of my responsibilities is to be a good mother. The Mother is a life-giver and the source of nurturing, devotion, patience and unconditional love. To have the ability to forgive and provide for her children and put them before myself is the essence of a good mother.  I help many women through the pain of child birth and the difficulties of mother hood. I also have the responsibilities of a witch, which means that I use knowledge of the universal laws of nature, the conscious mind and esoteric powers to manifest my desires.
 I have many animals that are sacred to me, those animals are the cow, snake, scorpion, hawk, swallow, dove and the vulture.
 I am one of the most famous goddesses of ancient Egypt. My worship actually originated in Africa, but  was nurtured and refined in Egypt, where I am most commonly known to have come from. After being refined in Egypt my worship spread through the ancient world by the Greek tourists, and the Romans conquerors. My fame quickly spread to all corners of the Roman empire. There was even a temple to me on the River Themes in Southwark, London!
I am not associated with only one culture have am a worshiped being throughout many different cultures such as Egyptian, Roman or Greek.
My friends are Thoth, the seven scorpions, and Hathor. My enemies are my brother Seth, who killed my husband, and the lady in the swamp who did not help me heal my son.
Some of the symbols that can distinguish me is my head dress with the cow horns and red solar sun, my wings, and an empty throne that I sometimes where which symbolizes the death of my husband, Osiris.

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 I am Isis, the Egyptian goddess of magic, motherhood, royalty, and family commitment. Isis is my Greek name, but I am known as Aset to the Egyptians that worship me. My Egyptian name can be spelled in many different ways such as Ast, Iset, and Uset, they are usually translated as "(female) of the throne" or "Queen of the throne".
 I am often described as a beautiful woman and am distinguished by my 'wings of light'. I have dark hair (with diamonds in it) brown eyes, tan skin, and I wear flowing white robes. Many people recognize me when they see a woman wearing a vulture headdress and the red solar disk between a pair of golden horns. I have also been described as having the face of a mother, with kind and caring features.
I am the first daughter of Geb, god of the earth, and Nut, the goddess of the overarching sky. I am the sister of Osiris, Nephthys, and Seth. My husband is Osiris and I am the loving mother of my son Horus. My husband and I ruled the earth together until he was killed by my brother Seth who had been over come with jealousy so to keep my son safe I had to raise him on my own in secret.
 I am ambitious and a loyal wife and mother. I possess the conventional powers of the Egyptian gods. I have superhuman strength, longevity, and I am resistant to harm. I have great mystical skills that enable me to manipulate the elemental forces of the universe. I also have the power to raise and protect the spirits of the dead.
One of my weaknesses is my want/need to win and maintain my power at any cost.

  Unlike other Egyptian goddesses, the goddess I spent time among my people, teaching women how to grind corn and make bread, spin flax and weave cloth, and how to tame men enough to live with them. I taught my people the skills of reading and agriculture.
More than any other of the ancient Egyptian goddesses, I embodied the characteristics of all the lesser goddesses that preceded me. I became the model on which future generations of female deities in other cultures were to be based.