Thursday, December 2, 2010

Perhaps My Favorite Ancient Deity?


I have decided that Isis is just about the coolest goddess ever. While she is a huge symbol of femininity and woman-power, I don't feel like that was what made her so awesome. But that may just be because I honestly find feminists and woman's rights fanatics irritating. It just isn't needed in America anymore. We have our rights, so move onto other subjects or other countries. Anyway, back to Isis. What I like about her is that she didn't exactly act like a goddess. She kind of just went about her thing. She was down on earthly planes grinding corn with the rest of us. And she was devout to one lover, Osiris, which is a bit strange for those ancient gods. Though, it was usually the men who were a bit more of the run-arounds. She also overthrew Ra. And overthrowing the main god is pretty bad ass. It also reveals a darker side to her. But instead of it being her downfall it is her uprising. Plus, she manages to find every single piece of a dismembered body that was sent down the Nile and in any direction Set decided to throw them. Pretty legit stuff right there.

2 comments:

  1. I like the comic character Isis. She married Black Adam. And her brother was Osiris which is kinda weird now...

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  2. Osiris is her brother in mythology as well. And he was killed by their other brother who was married to their other sister. There's slim pickings of mates when all the gods haven't been born yet.

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