Power and compassion, crafty but merciful, Isis represents all the qualities of women. Yet she is never shown as selfish or cruel, except to those who would harm those she loves. She did after all trick Ra’s secret came out of him to gain his power. Her power is spoken of much in the ancient stories, and she may have been even more powerful than Ra and Osiris. Together they taught man the secrets of magic, medicine, and agriculture. But that is not the only time she is associated with Thoth. In the Legend of Osiris, it is she who travels the world to find all the pieces of his body and it is she who brings him back to life with the aid of Thoth. In earlier times she was not only the wife to Osiris but his female counterpart, equal in all ways and powers. She was the daughter of Nut and Geb, the sister to Osiris, Set, and Nephthys, and the mother of Horus. Her worship was taken up by the Greeks and the Romans, and indeed, Isis followers are still found today and the Auset/ Isis story has had a major impact in the world we live in today. Some of them quite ancient, and many houses had shrines to her devotion. Temples to Isis are found everywhere in Egypt. She was revered as the great protector, prayed to for guidance, and beseeched for peace in the world. The major goddess of the Egyptian pantheon, she had many of the same attributes of other mother-goddesses found all over the world. She may also be the most important, for although the other gods were worshipped widely, Isis was worshipped almost universally by all Ancient Egyptians.
Auset, commonly known as Isis, is one of the oldest deities in Kemet (Ancient Egypt) She is also one of the oldest to survive the ages in much the same form.
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