Isis
deity figure · 10 works · 12 mentions · 16 anchored passages
the goddess Isis
in the texts
The Histories
Egyptian goddess to whom cows are sacred; her images are horned like a cow, and she and Osiris are worshipped by all Egyptians alike.
these are sacred to Isis.
For no gods are worshipped by all Egyptians in common except Isis and Osiris, who they say is Dionysus;
For the images of Isis are in woman's form, horned like a cow, exactly as the Greeks picture Io, and cows are held by far the most sacred of all beasts of the herd by all Egyptians alike.
On the Nature of the Gods
Egyptian goddess cited as a test case for extending divinity to foreign gods
And what do you say — if those whom we worship and have received are gods, why should we not reckon Serapis and Isis in the same kind?
Stromata
Isis, the Egyptian goddess, identified by various cited authors with the Greek figure Io and made daughter of Prometheus.
and Triopas is contemporary with Isis in the seventh generation from Inachus (and they say Isis is the same as Io, because she went, wandering, through the whole earth);
Barlaam and Josaphat
Egyptian goddess worshipped from the beginning per Nachor, unable to protect or save Osiris.
And for this reason Isis flees with Horus her son to Byblos in Syria, seeking Osiris, bitterly lamenting, until Horus grew up and killed Typhon.
Ad Nationes
Egyptian goddess cited as a deified ruler analogous to Jupiter and Saturn.
For if Jupiter reigned in Crete and Saturn in Italy and Isis in Egypt, men too have reigned, to whom indeed many are reported to have done service.
De Baptismo
Egyptian goddess whose mystery cult included initiatory washing rites, cited as a false parallel to baptism.
For they too are initiated by certain rites through a washing — of some Isis or Mithras;
De Corona
Egyptian goddess said to have first carried grain-ears on her head.
" If you turn over the writings too of the Egyptian Leo, Isis first carried about on her head the ears of grain she had discovered—a matter rather of the belly.
De ieiunio adversus psychicos
Egyptian goddess cited in the Psychics' comparison disparaging Xerophagy.
As for Xerophagies, they call it a newfangled name for an affected observance, and one closely akin to pagan superstition, such as the abstinences by which they purify Apis, Isis and the Great Mother by excepting certain foods—whereas faith, free in Christ, owes the abstinence from certain foods not even to the Jewish Law, the whole shambles having been once for all permitted by the Apostle, who d …
De Spectaculis
Egyptian goddess referenced as one of the gods whose cultic image actors' shaved faces resemble.
Will that one too please who changes his countenance with a razor, faithless toward his own face, which, not content to make next door to that of Saturn and Isis and Liber, he moreover exposes to the insults of slaps, as though he made sport of the Lord's precept?
De Testimonio Animae
An Egyptian goddess whose cult linen garment is referenced as pagan ritual attire.
Nay, very often, both wreathed with the fillet of Ceres, and clad in scarlet with the cloak of Saturn, and in the linen of the goddess Isis, and finally in the very temples, you implore God as judge.