Isis

Family: Egyptian deity · Role: goddess · First appears: Fable 82

Life events

• Isis forbids Telethusa from obeying Ligdus and promises protection for the child.(Fable82)
  • With: Telethusa
  • “O Telethusa, one of my votaries, lay aside thy grievous cares, and evade the commands of thy husband; and do not hesitate, when Lucina shall have given thee ease by delivery, to bring up {the child}, whatever it shall be.”
• Isis transforms Iphis from a female into a male.(Fable82)
  • With: Telethusa Iphis
  • “Iphis follows her, her companion as she goes, with longer strides than she had been wont; her fairness does not continue on her face; both her strength is increased, and her features are more stern; and shorter is the length of her scattered locks. There is more vigour, also, than she had {as} a female. {And} now thou art a male, who so lately wast a female.”

Fable 82

• with Telethusa (interaction) “O Isis, thou who dost inhabit Parætonium,[75] and the Mareotic fields,[76] and Pharos,[77] and the Nile divided into its seven horns, give aid, I beseech thee, and ease me of my fears. Thee, Goddess, thee, I once beheld, and these thy symbols”
• with Iphis (Isis transforms Iphis from a female into a male.) “Iphis follows her, her companion as she goes, with longer strides than she had been wont; her fairness does not continue on her face; both her strength is increased, and her features are more stern; and shorter is the length of her scattered locks. There is more vigour, also, than she had {as} a female. {And} now thou art a male, who so lately wast a female.”
• parent: Inachus “when in the middle of the night, under the form of a vision, the daughter of Inachus, attended by a train of her votaries, either stood, or seemed to stand, before her bed.”
• with Anubis (interaction) “The horns of the moon were upon her forehead, with ears of corn with their bright golden colour, and the royal ornament {of the diadem}; with her was the barking Anubis,”
• with Bubastis (interaction) “with her was the barking Anubis,[66] and the holy Bubastis,[67] and the particoloured Apis;”
• with Apis (interaction) “and the holy Bubastis,[67] and the particoloured Apis;[68]”
• with Osiris (interaction) “There were the sistra too, and Osiris,[70] never enough sought for; and the foreign serpent,[71] filled with soporiferous poison.”

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Extracted from the original text of The Metamorphoses of Ovid. Made with Rho MD.