RELS 212 Lecture 15: RELS 212 W8L15
6 Mar 2016
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Look to help her son horus, the living king. Associated with insuring the creative fertility of the dead king osiris. Far-reaching significance, in post-pharoanic period, her cult and worship increases in importance, remarkable expansion beyond egypt to include much of mediterranean world. Universal goddess who assumes the function of many deities, in particular she becomes associated or assimilated to figure of demeter greek goddess of harvest/agriculture, her concerns for the seasons, ordinary cycle of life and marriage overtones of well. Mythological story of osiris and isis is the romantic love story, committed to brother husband, finding his body after being disposed of by seth twice, and bear his child at all odds. Lets isis enters his body, seeing his true name when he hides it from rest of gods, and becomes more powerful in that, she commands his poison out of him and then re is younger and powerful again.
