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Grieving, Isis searches the world to collect the pieces and puts him back together. Osiris is murdered by his jealous younger brother Set, who dismembers the body and scatters it. She marries one of her brothers, the god Osiris, and the pair rule the world. In one of the most popular tellings of the Isis myth, she is one of the children of the gods Geb, god of the earth, and Nut, goddess of the sky. Isis’s ability to absorb new traits would prove valuable to the longevity and spread of her worship throughout the ancient world. As Isis became closely linked to maternity, her headdress morphed and became like Hathor’s. Hathor, an early Egyptian goddess of motherhood, was often shown with a solar disk and cow horns. As her divine roles diversified, her appearance would change. Isis is the Greek form of the goddess’s name, which in ancient Egyptian was Aset, meaning “seat” or “throne.” Depicted as a slim woman wearing a sheath dress, she is often shown with a throne on her head. ( In ancient Egypt, women rulers kept society stable in times of trouble.) Egyptian origins Then as Roman power expanded, worship of Isis went even farther afield.īy the second century A.D., the Roman writer Apuleius would glorify her as the “mother of stars, the parent of seasons, and the mistress of all the world.” Yet while she meant many things to many cultures across the Roman world, her roots lie in a very specific place and time: the Nile Delta at the dawn of ancient Egyptian history. Her cult first began to spread around the Mediterranean following the establishment of Hellenist rule in Egypt in the fourth century B.C. Isis was loved by ancient Egyptians for her fierce devotion to her husband Osiris and her son Horus.