| The Goddess Isis
I also ask Isis for guidance and help.
The Egyptian goddess Isis, the mother-goddess. One of the few Egyptian deities who possess wings, and represents the wind of heaven. She is usually depicted in the form of a woman crowned with her name-symbol and holding in her hand a sceptre of paprus. Her crown is surmounted by a pair of horns holding a disk, which in turn is sometimes crested by her hieroglyph, which represents a seat or throne. Sometimes also she is represented as possessing radiant and many-coloured wings, with which she stirs to life the inanimate body of Osiris. She is a great traveller and unceasingly moans and sobs. Isis wails like the wind, she shrieks in the tempest, she carries the fragrance of spices and flowers throughout the country, she takes the shape of a swallow, one of the swiftest of birds and typical of the rapidity of the wind, she employs the element of which she is mistress to revivify the dead Osiris, she possesses wings, as do all deities connected with the wind and like the rest of her kind she is constantly travelling up and down the land.
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