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Myths, hymns, and scholarly findings about the goddess known as Ast in Egypt and later as Isis throughout the known world.

The central deity of the Isis Mysteries is the Egyptian goddess, Isis. Isis reflects the archetypal earth mother by serving as a goddess of life, fertility, and protection. She was generally associated with the waxing moon, and is symbolically represented by many objects included the door, the sky, and thet (a knot or buckle representing life or blood). Isis was generally given a human form (seen at right), though often with the head of a cow, serpent, or scorpion.

ISIS or her more ancient Egyptian name ASET, seems like two different deities if you take a closer look. When the worship of ISIS rose in Greek and Roman days, ASET had already been forgotten for hundreds of years, at this time only a small group of priests still knew how to read the hieroglyphs of the temple walls.