EGYPTIAN ISIS HAND MIRROR w/ EGYPT SCARAB -EYE OF HORUS
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EGYPTIAN ISIS HAND MIRROR w/ EGYPT SCARAB -EYE OF HORUS CLICK for Combined Shipping Discounts Up to 50% & How to Receive FREE GIFTS! *Actual item looks even better than it appeared in picture Description Size: L: 10" EGYPTIAN ISIS HAND MIRROR w/ EGYPT SCARAB -EYE OF HORUS EGYPTIAN ISIS/SCARAB/EYE OF HORUS MIRROR About Isis:Isis, in Egyptian mythology, goddess of fertility and motherhood. According to the Egyptian belief, she was the daughter of the god Keb (Earth) and the goddess Nut (Sky), the sister-wife of Osiris, judge of the dead, and mother of Horus, god of day. After the end of the Late Period in the 4th century bc the center of Isis worship, which was then reaching its greatest peak, was on Philae, an island in the Nile, w a great temple was built to her during the 30th Dynasty. Ancient stories described Isis as having great magical skill, and she was represented as human in form though she was frequently described as wearing the horns of a cow. Her personality was believed to resemble that of Athor, or Hathor, the goddess of love and gaiety.The cult of Isis spread from Alexandria throughout the Hellenistic world after the 4th century . It appeared in Greece in combination with the cults of Horus, her son, and Serapis, the Greek name for Osiris. The Greek historian Herodotus identified Isis with Demeter, the Greek goddess
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