I will describe three gods and goddesses; Isis, Osiris, and Ra. Isis and Osiris are sibling and also husband and wife and are the great, great grandchildren of Ra. The sun god Ra has three aspects.

The famous goddess of fertility in Egyptian mythology, she was granddaughter of Ra, wife of Osiris, and mother of Horus. Known for her sorcery and healing abilities, she was fiercely protective of her ...

Osiris came to rule the Egyptian pantheon after Ra became old and senile, and only after [Isis reassembled Osiris' body], which had been chopped into scattered bits by Set.

Ra led this grouping of gods, and it also included “Shu and Tefnut, deities of air and moisture; Geb and Nut, who represented earth and sky; and Osiris, Isis, Seth, and Nephthys.” ...

Once Osiris’s body had been reassembled—through her power of magic and through the power of her erotic love—Isis was able to revive Osiris, although not entirely.

Egyptian mythology has a lot of gods. Some of them have loomed large in pop culture and the public imagination: Ra, Apophis, Anubis, Isis, Bast, Osiris, etc. Some are far more obscure. But that in ...