Isis' counterpart...

[Mindflayer]

If Isis is representitive of the Goddess in the Egyptian pantheon (being the mother Goddess and all)


who would be her counterpart?


is it Osiris? he is her husband and all...but Ra is represenitive of the sun...?

[Ahautenites]

**grins** There's a discussion elsewhere about how Isis is not Egyptian, but I'm not going there.

Yes, Aset and Wesir are counterparts, as are Shu and Tefnut, and Geb and Nut, Amun and Mut (or previously, Amaunet) , and several other couples. Depending on location, any one of these couples would have been considered the preeminent divine couple.

But it's a mistake to think think that Kemetic religion has a divine duality as its basis the way Wicca (usually) does.

There are quite a few ancient Egyptian creation myths in circulation, from everything being born out of the waters of the Nun, to a god coming out of a lotus in the Nun to a goose (Gengen Wer) who hatched the world to one of the gods creating himself and the world and everything on it by pleasuring himself. Even the ancient Egyptians themselves didn't know (or really care too much) which one was more correct. The ancient Egyptians *did* believe that there was something called Netjer that would be a rough equivalent of The All in Wicca. They did believe that all of the gods and goddesses (netjeru, as a collective) were Many facets of this One. But, some sects believe that there was no single most important god, while others believed that Ra was most important. And then it was Atum who was most important later in history. And later still, it was Aten who was most important. (I may have the order of those three gods wrong, as I'm having a brain fart at the moment...) There were even various gods' names that were combined into one multi-named, multiple-personalitied god.

Nonetheless, there wasn't a goddess during that time who was ever thought of as the most important of all of the divine beings, although an argument could be made that in ancient Egyptian prehistory, there was a bird goddess called Nuit who was considered a Great Mother Goddess. But it is not known if She ever had a male counterpart. No evidence of such a consort has been found to date.