In the typical form of her
myth, Isis was the first daughter of Geb, god of
the Earth, and Nut, goddess of the Sky, and she was born on the
fourth intercalary day. She married her brother, Osiris, and she conceived
Horus with him. Isis was instrumental in the resurrection
of Osiris when he was murdered by Set.
Isis - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isis
This is what you’re likely to get if you do a google search
on “who is the goddess Isis,” but first things first. The goddess Isis has absolutely no connection
with the Islamic State: IS, ISIS or ISIL.
A lot of decent business are named after the goddess, many of them
metaphysical and some, specifically for women.
Having always thought that people who used abbreviations like ISIL or IS were
snobs, Wally used to cringe whenever he heard someone use the them. “Why don’t they just say ISIS and do without
the uppity attitude,” he'd often ask?
Recently, however, even Wally refers to the unholy warriors
as IS. The way he explains his linguistic
conversion is, “I do it out of respect for a very old goddess and way of
worshipping, as well as for modern
business who have taken on that once sacred name.”
And when it comes to his choice of IS instead of ISIS,
Wally finds himself agreeing with, at least, one aspect of the way in which the
Obama Administration is dealing with the so-called Islamic State, albeit for
different reasons.
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