Isis (𓊨) — Magic, Motherhood, Reassembly

Aset (Isis) is the Great of Heka, whose mastery of magic surpasses even that of Ra — the Metternich Stela recounts how she tricked Ra into revealing his secret name, gaining power over all creation. She searched the length of Kemet to recover the fourteen scattered parts of Osiris, and through her rites of reassembly she invented the practice of mummification itself. The Pyramid Texts name her as the throne (her hieroglyph 𓊨 literally depicts the seat of kingship), making her the living principle that confers legitimate sovereignty. She is simultaneously weret hekau (great of magic), mourner, healer, and the mother who conceives Horus even from a reconstituted corpse.

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