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ISIS
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Gender: Feminine
Usage: Egyptian Mythology (Hellenized)
Pronounced: IE-sis (English) [key]
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Greek form of Egyptian Aset, which possibly meant "the throne". In Egyptian mythology Isis was the goddess of the sky and nature, the wife of Osiris and the mother of Horus. She was often depicted having the horns of a cow on her head. |
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