ISIS – ONE WHO IS ALL

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2012 oil and collage 24 x 48 © Jo Jayson
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Isis (Greek) Ast, Aset meaning ‘Throne’ – is known as the Goddess of all Goddesses. Story is told of Aset (Isis) coming down from from the constellation Sirus, to rule and secure the present seed race in the Land of Khem ( chem) which is now, present day Egypt. The word ‘Alchemy’ is thought to come from here….tying Isis inextricably with the experience of Magic and Manifestation. Isis embodies the Empowered Divine Feminine. Her realm absorbed many of the principle goddess attributes in Egypt, but she began as an independent deity in pre-dyanastic times around the Nile Delta. There are many versions of the story of Isis and Osiris, her brother and husband. The most well known being that after the violent death of Osiris, Isis changed into a hawk and hovered over his body fanning her wings to bring breath back into him. Isis became known as the Mother of life and the Crone of death, the image of Horus her son nursing from her breast, was the original iconic image that later became the Madonna and Child. Pharaohs would use the metaphor of sitting in the lap of Isis in order to bequeath from her their majesty and divinity….to sit in the lap of Isis…was to inherit her Throne. Isis loyalty and worship spread to Greece, Rome and Pagan cultures throughout Europe and the Middle East….Jesus and The Magdalene were believed to be schooled in the mysteries of Isis. Goddess of life, death, rebirth, the moon, the sun, and healing and magic, the absolute Mother and Woman Divine…Isis has been named ‘One who is All” “Lady of 10,000 names, the ‘Isis Panathea’.