Isis: Most Popular And Well-Known Egyptian Goddesses

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Isis is one of the most popular and well known Egyptian goddesses in history. She is known for being “the mother of god” or the mother of all Egyptian gods. She is often seen suckling her and Osiris’s sun Horus.
Isis is known as one of the many fertility goddesses in ancient Egypt. She is often worshiped in Upper Egypt and her temple can be found in Behbeit el-Hagar and Philae. The temple in Philae is still intact due to its stones not being removed for other buildings.
One of Isis most well-known rolls is being the wife of Osiris and mother to Horus. In one of the ancient Egyptian stories, Isis must travel to the underworld to obtain all the pieces of her husband that were scattered across the underworld by his brother Set. The than later