The Egyptian Deities

The Egyptian Deities ISIS (Aset, Ast) Symbols: The knot of Isis and the scorpion. Cult Centre: Heliopolis Isis was the sister of Osiris (who was also her husband), Nephthys and Seth, the daughter of Nut and Geb and the mother of Horus the Child. Isis is depicted as a woman wearing a vulture headdress and the solar disk between a pair of horns (which is sometimes underneath the symbol of her name , the throne). Occasionally …

…of the agrarian majority. Like the Uluburun ship that was heavily loaded with the richest luxuries available at the time, it is possible that a top-heavy society, unable to satisfy a sufficient proportion of its members, collapsed under its own weight. * * * * * Joyous we too launch out on trackless seas, fearless for unknown shores. ---Whitman, Passage to India Bibliography “Oldest Known Shipwreck” George Bass, National Geographic 1987 “Microsoft Encarta” CD “World Book Encyclopaedia” CD Encyclopaedia Brittanica CD