Isis: Goddess of Egypt & India

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On India’s south-western or Malabar coast is positioned an ancient Hindu temple devoted to the famous god Shiva and his consort the fearsome Kali. But an earlier dedication was once to the Buddhist/Jaina goddess Pattini, whose mortal husband was once tried and killed in a series of brutal events still commemorated in the temple’s ritual year. And before this the story gets even stranger, as there are said to be the remains of a secret, underground shrine, the home to a mystery cult dedicated to the Egyptian goddess Isis. Greek, Roman & Near Eastern merchants travelled to India after a regular, if epic, sea journey of two thousand miles across the Arabian Ocean, making their first landfall at a port known in the ancient world as Musiris. The story begins on the banks of the Nile when Isis and Osiris were the beating heart of Egypt’s hottest religion. I will be able to trace their origins to the Egypt’s pyramid age in the midst of the second one millennia bce and even earlier. An excessive amount of this book is devoted to describing what is known about their cult from Egyptian records. This, I shall argue, is the basis for what comes later in the time-line, when Greek and Roman Empires dominated the Mediterranean world. Now Isis and Osiris turn out to be the focal point of a global religion and the basis of the most well liked of all classical mystery cults.

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