Following custom of marrying siblings, Isis married her brother now is his sister wife, Osiris. These are three Ancient Egyptian gods. Isis, Osiris and Ra are both very different and yet similar. Isis ...

The Philae Temple is steeped in mythological stories that depict Isis resurrecting her husband Osiris and giving birth to their son Horus. These narratives are immortalized in detailed reliefs and ...

How Isis Brought Her True Love Back From the Dead. Season 1 Episode 3 | 9m 34s Video has Closed Captions | CC. For the Ancient Egyptians, the cycle of life itself began and ended with Isis and Osiris.

She points to a scene inside the temple of Isis at Philae depicting Ptolemy VIII (r. 170–116 B.C.) offering a libation to Osiris, with Isis standing behind the god.

Isis in turn gave birth to Horus, the falcon-headed god of kingship. When Seth learned that his brother Osiris’s offspring had been born, he sought to kill the baby Horus.

The Egyptian gods (from left to right) Nephthys, Isis, and Osiris receive gifts from the deceased in a detail from the Book of the Dead that dates to 1075-945 B.C.

Isis was loved by ancient Egyptians for her fierce devotion to her husband Osiris and her son Horus. Her cult first began to spread around the Mediterranean following the establishment of ...