According to Egyptian mythology, Isis is the Egyptian Goddess of magic and motherhood. She is one of the greatest Goddesses in the Egyptian pantheon. She is known to protect women and children and is the healer of the sick. When her husband Osiris ruled Egypt, Isis also contributed her bit by teaching women how to weave, bake bread and brew drinks.

Isis is represented as a beautiful woman wearing a sheath dress & either the hieroglyphic sign of the throne or a solar disk and a cow’s horns on her head. Her parents are Geb and Nut, while her siblings are Osiris, Nephthys and Set. Isis is Osiris’s wife and Horus’s mother.

With her magical powers, she once cast a spell even on Amun-Ra and made him reveal his secret name. She then used this secret name to overthrow Amun-Ra and put Osiris on the throne. The famous story behind this goes to the times when Isis collected the God Ra’s spit, without his knowledge and built a powerful snake from this spit. She placed the snake on the route of the walking path of Ra and when Ra crossed that path, the venomous snake bit him. Given that the snake was magically created, there was no cure apart from the cure that Isis was aware of. The poison was rapidly spreading in Ra’s body and that is when Isis told Ra that he needs to tell her his secret name. Ra’s secret name gave him unlimited power so he was caught as he never told anyone his secret name. Eventually as the poison was spreading faster all over his body and was causing uncontrollable pain, he gave in and whispered his secret name to Isis and got cured with Isis and her healing magic. Using this new power of the secret name, Isis dethroned Ra and made Osiris the new king.

There is another famous myth which talks of the time when the jealous Seth killed his brother, Osiris. Isis is said to have used her magical powers and bring him back to life with her spells.

Earlier, Isis did not have many dedicated temples of her own, but as people started realizing her powers, her worshippers increased.