The Goddess Who Stole the Sun God's Power & Greatest Weapon
Isis, the mistress of magic, the might of her magical mastery making her one of the most powerful gods in all of Egyptian mythology. As Weret-Hekau (meaning ‘the Great of Magic’), she was sometimes depicted as a cobra who suckled and safeguarded the pharaoh, and with respect to defending Egypt’s borders, she was said to be greater “than a million soldiers.” She was the sister-wife of Osiris, ruling alongside her husband as the queen of creation; she was the mother and protector of Horus, the rightful king who would win back his father’s crown from the usurper Set; she was the symbolic mother of every pharaoh, the pharaohs themselves symbolic incarnations of Horus; and she was the griever, preserver, and guardian of the dead. Her magical escapades and exploits include: poisoning the sun god and stealing his power, materializing appendages, reincarnating the king of the gods, taking the form of animals and of other people, transforming into a flint statue after being decapitated to pr...