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Alexander the Great
Alexander III of Macedon (20/21 July 356 – 10/11 June 323 BC), commonly known as Alexander the Great (, Mégas Aléxandros), was a Greek king of Macedon. He is the most celebrated member of the Argead Dynasty and the creator of one of the largest empires in ancient history.
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Apuleius
Apuleius (sometimes called Lucius Apuleius; c. 125 – c. 180) was a Latin prose writer. He was a Berber, from Madaurus (now M'Daourouch, Algeria). He studied Platonist philosophy in Athens; travelled to Italy, Asia Minor and Egypt; and was an initiate in several cults or mysteries, including the cult of Isis. The most famous incident in his life was when he was accused of using magic to gain the attentions (and fortune) of a wealthy widow. He declaimed and then distributed a witty tour de force in his own defense before the proconsul and a court of magistrates convened in Sabratha, near Tripoli. This is known as the Apologia.
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Caligula
Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus Germanicus (31 August AD 12 – 24 January AD 41), commonly known as Caligula and sometimes Gaius, was Roman Emperor from 37 to 41. Caligula was a member of the house of rulers conventionally known as the Julio-Claudian dynasty. Caligula's father Germanicus, the nephew and adopted son of emperor Tiberius, was a very successful general and one of Rome's most beloved public figures. The young Gaius earned the nickname Caligula (the diminutive form of caliga meaning "little soldier's boot") from his father's soldiers while accompanying him during his campaigns in Germania. When Germanicus died at Antioch in 19 AD, his mother Agrippina the Elder returned to Rome with her six children where she became entangled in an increasingly bitter feud with Tiberius. This conflict eventually led to the destruction of her family, with Caligula as the sole male survivor. Unscathed by the deadly intrigues, Caligula accepted the invitation to join the emperor on the island of Capri in 31, where Tiberius himself had withdrawn five years earlier. At the death of Tiberius in 37, Caligula succeeded his great-uncle and adoptive grandfather.
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Diocletian
Gaius Aurelius Valerius Diocletianus (c. 22 December 244 – 3 December 311), commonly known as Diocletian, was a Roman Emperor from 284 to 305.
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Domitian
Titus Flavius Domitianus (24 October 51 – 18 September 96), commonly known as Domitian, was Roman Emperor from 81 to 96. Domitian was the third and last emperor of the Flavian dynasty.
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Egyptians
Egyptians (Arabic: '; Egyptian Arabic: '; Coptic: ) are a nation of Mediterranean North Africans indigenous to Egypt.
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Galerius
Gaius Galerius Valerius Maximianus (c. 260 - April or May 311), commonly known as Galerius, was Roman Emperor from 305 to 311. During his reign he campaigned, aided by Diocletian, against the Sassanid Empire, sacking their capital Ctesiphon in 299.
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Hadrian
Publius Aelius Hadrianus (24 January 76 – 10 July 138), commonly known as Hadrian and after his apotheosis Divus Hadrianus, was Roman Emperor from 117 to 138. He is best-known for building Hadrian's Wall, which marked the northern limit of Roman territory in Britain. In Rome, he built the Pantheon and the Temple of Venus and Roma. In addition to being emperor, Hadrian is also a notable Stoic and Epicurean philosopher. A member of the gens Aelia, Hadrian was the third of the so-called Five Good Emperors.
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Herodotus
Herodotus (Greek: Hēródotos) was an ancient Greek historian who lived in the 5th century BC ( – ). He was born in Caria, Halicarnassus (modern day Bodrum, Turkey). He is regarded as the "Father of History" in Western culture. He was the first historian known to collect his materials systematically, test their accuracy to a certain extent and arrange them in a well-constructed and vivid narrative. He is exclusively known for writing The Histories, a record of his "inquiry" (or historía, a word that passed into Latin and took on its modern meaning of history) into the origins of the Greco-Persian Wars which occurred in 490 and 480-479 BC—especially since he includes a narrative account of that period, which would otherwise be poorly documented; and many long digressions concerning the various places and people he encountered during wide-ranging travels around the lands of the Mediterranean and Black Sea. Although some of his stories were not completely accurate, he claimed that he was reporting only what had been told to him.
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J. Gwyn Griffiths
John Gwyn Griffiths (7 December 1911 – 15 June 2004), was a Welsh poet, Egyptologist and nationalist political activist who spent the largest span of his career lecturing at Swansea University.
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Josephus
Josephus (37 – c.100 AD/CE), also Yosef Ben Matityahu (Joseph son of Matthias) and Titus Flavius Josephus was a first-century Romano-Jewish historian and hagiographer of priestly and royal ancestry who recorded first century Jewish history, such as the First Jewish–Roman War which resulted in the Destruction of Jerusalem in 70 AD. He has been credited by many as recording some of the earliest history of Jesus Christ outside of the gospels.
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Julius Caesar
Gaius Julius Caesar (13 July 100 BC – 15 March 44 BC) was a Roman general and statesman. He played a critical role in the transformation of the Roman Republic into the Roman Empire.
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Justinian
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Narses
:For other historical figures with similar names, see Narses (disambiguation).
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Plutarch
Plutarch, born Plutarchos (Greek: Πλούταρχος) then, on his becoming a Roman citizen, Lucius Mestrius Plutarchus (Μέστριος Πλούταρχος), c. 46 – 120 AD, was a Greek historian, biographer, essayist, and Middle Platonist known primarily for his Parallel Lives and Moralia. He was born to a prominent family in Chaeronea, Boeotia, a town about twenty miles east of Delphi.
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Ptolemy I Soter
:For the astronomer, see Ptolemy; for others named "Ptolemy" or "Ptolemaeus", see Ptolemy (disambiguation).
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Tacitus
Publius (or Gaius) Cornelius Tacitus (AD 56 – AD 117) was a senator and a historian of the Roman Empire. The surviving portions of his two major works—the Annals and the Histories—examine the reigns of the Roman Emperors Tiberius, Claudius, Nero and those who reigned in the Year of the Four Emperors. These two works span the history of the Roman Empire from the death of Augustus in AD 14 to (presumably) the death of emperor Domitian in AD 96. There are enormous lacunae in the surviving texts, including one four books long in the Annals.
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Theodosian decree
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Thutmose III
Thutmose III (sometimes read as Thutmosis or Tuthmosis III and meaning Son of Thoth) was the sixth Pharaoh of the Eighteenth Dynasty. During the first twenty-two years of Thutmose's reign he was co-regent with his stepmother, Hatshepsut, who was named the pharaoh. While she is shown first on surviving monuments, both were assigned the usual royal names and insignia and neither is given any obvious seniority over the other. He served as the head of her armies.
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Titus
:For the personal name, see Titus (praenomen). For other uses, see Titus (disambiguation).
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Trajan
Marcus Ulpius Nerva Traianus (18 September 53 – 9 August 117), commonly known as Trajan, was Roman Emperor from 98 to 117. Born into a non-patrician family in the province of Hispania Baetica, Trajan rose to prominence during the reign of emperor Domitian. Serving as a general in the Roman army along the German frontier, Trajan successfully put down the revolt of Antonius Saturninus in 89. In September 96, Domitian was succeeded by Marcus Cocceius Nerva, an old and childless senator who proved to be unpopular with the army. After a brief and tumultuous year in power, a revolt by members of the Praetorian Guard compelled him to adopt the more popular Trajan as his heir and successor. Nerva died on 27 January 98, and was succeeded by his adopted son without incident.
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Vespasian
Titus Flavius Vespasianus , commonly known as Vespasian (17 November 9 – 23 June 79), was Roman Emperor from 69 C.E to 79 C.E. Vespasian was the founder of the Flavian dynasty which ruled the empire for a quarter century. Vespasian was descended from a family of equestrians which rose into the senatorial rank under the emperors of the Julio-Claudian dynasty. Although he attained the standard succession of public offices, holding the consulship in 51 C.E, Vespasian became more reputed as a successful military commander, participating in the Roman invasion of Britain in 43, and subjugating Judaea during the Jewish rebellion of 66 C.E. While Vespasian was preparing to besiege the city of Jerusalem during the latter campaign, emperor Nero committed suicide, plunging the empire into a year of civil war known as the Year of the Four Emperors. After the emperors Galba and Otho perished in quick succession, Vitellius became emperor in April 69 C.E. In response, the armies in Egypt and Judaea declared Vespasian emperor on July 1. In his bid for imperial power, Vespasian joined forces with Mucianus, the governor of Syria, and Primus, a general in Pannonia. Primus and Mucianus led the Flavian forces against Vitellius, while Vespasian gained control of Egypt. On 20 December, Vitellius was defeated, and the following day Vespasian was declared emperor by the Roman Senate.
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Abydos, Egypt
Abydos is the common English name of one of the most ancient cities of Upper Egypt, and also of the eight Upper Nome of which it was the capital city. It is located about 11 kilometres (6.8 mi) west of the Nile at latitude 26° 10' N, near the modern Egyptian towns of el-'Araba el Madfuna and al-Balyana. The city was called Abdju in the ancient Egyptian language (3bdw or AbDw as technically transcribed from hieroglyphs) meaning "the hill of the symbol or reliquary", a reference to a reliquary in which the sacred head of Osiris was preserved.
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Egypt
Egypt (; , Miṣr, ; Egyptian Arabic: مصر, Maṣr, ; Coptic: , ; Greek: Αίγυπτος, Aiguptos; Egyptian:
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England
England () is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west and the North Sea to the east, with the English Channel to the south separating it from continental Europe. Most of England comprises the central and southern part of the island of Great Britain in the North Atlantic. The country also includes over 100 smaller islands such as the Isles of Scilly and the Isle of Wight.
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Greece
Greece (; , Elláda, ; , Hellás, ), also known as Hellas and officially the Hellenic Republic (Ελληνική Δημοκρατία, Ellīnikī́ Dīmokratía, ), is a country in southeastern Europe. Situated on the southern end of the Balkan Peninsula, Greece has land borders with Albania, the Republic of Macedonia and Bulgaria to the north, and Turkey to the east. The Aegean Sea lies to the east of mainland Greece, the Ionian Sea to the west, and the Mediterranean Sea to the south. Greece has the tenth longest coastline in the world at in length, featuring a vast number of islands (approximately 1400, of which 227 are inhabited), including Crete, the Dodecanese, the Cyclades, and the Ionian Islands among others. Eighty percent of Greece consists of mountains, of which Mount Olympus is the highest at .
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Hadrian's Wall
'''Hadrian's Wall''' () is a stone and timber fortification built by the Roman Empire across the width of what is now northern England. Begun in AD 122, during the rule of emperor Hadrian, it was the first of two fortifications built across Great Britain, the second being the Antonine Wall in what is now Scotland. Hadrian's Wall is the better known of the two because its physical remains are more evident today.
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Heliopolis (ancient)
Heliopolis (Greek: or ), meaning sun-city, also known as عين شمس, Ain Shams (literally "Eye of the Sun or Center of the Sun" in Arabic or a slight Change of its Hieroglyphic name "Oon" or "Iunu"), was one of the oldest cities of ancient Egypt. Located in the apex of the Nile Delta, Heliopolis was the capital of the 13th Lower Egyptian nome.
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Iraq
Iraq ( or , Arabic: ), officially the Republic of Iraq (Arabic:
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Nile delta
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Philae
Philae (Greek: , Philai; Ancient Egyptian: Pilak, ''P'aaleq; , Anas el Wagud'') is an island in the Nile River and the previous site of an Egyptian temple complex in southern Egypt. The complex was dismantled and relocated to a nearby island in connection to the UNESCO project started because of the construction of the High Dam, after being partly flooded by the first Aswan Dam for half a century.
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Rome
Rome (; , ; ) is the capital of Italy and the country's largest and most populated city and comune, with over 2.7 million residents in . In 2006 the population of the metropolitan area was estimated by the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development to have a population of 3.7 million.
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Sais
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Sebennytos
Sebennytos or Sebennytus (Greek: , Ptol. iv. 5. § 50, Steph. B. s. v. or , Strabo xvii. p. 802) or Egyptian: Tjebnutjer (
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Serapeum
A serapeum is a temple or other religious institution dedicated to the syncretic Hellenistic-Egyptian god Serapis, who combined aspects of Osiris and Apis in a humanized form that was accepted by the Ptolemaic Greeks of Alexandria. There were several such religious centers, each of which was a serapeion () or, in its Latinized form, a serapeum ("seh-rah-peh-um").
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Solar Barque
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Tibur
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Isis
Releases by year: 2009 2006 2004 2002 2001 1975
Album releases
Wavering Radiant (Released 2009)
- Hall of the Dead
- Ghost Key
- Hand of the Host
- Wavering Radiant
- Stone to Wake a Serpent
- 20 Minutes / 40 Years
- Threshold of Transformation
In the Absence of Truth (Released 2006)
- Wrists of Kings
- Not in Rivers, but in Drops
- Dulcinea
- Over Root and Thorn
- 1,000 Shards
- All Out of Time, All Into Space
- Holy Tears
- Firdous E Bareen
- Garden of Light
Panopticon (Released 2004)
Oceanic (Released 2002)
Celestial (Released 2001)
- SGNL>01
- Celestial (The Tower)
- Glisten
- Swarm Reigns (Down)
- SGNL>02
- Deconstructing Towers
- SGNL>03
- Collapse and Crush
- C.F.T. (New Circuitry and Continued Evolution)
- Gentle Time
- SGNL>04 (End Transmission)
Ain't No Backin' Up Now (Released 1975)
- Ain't No Backin' Up Now
- Come One, Come All
- Eat the Root
- Sunshine Tree
- Icy Winds
- Lost Romeo
- Bobie & Maria
- Old Stories
- Gold
Rebel Soul
- Rebel Soul
- Face the Bass
- Great Pimpstress
- In the Mind of One
- Hail the Words of Isis
- To the Crossroads
- The Power of Myself is Moving
- The Wizard of Optics
- The House of Isis
- State of Mind
Second Coming
- Waiting for the Sonrise
- Everybody Needs a Forever / Servant Saviour
- Rubber Boy
- April Fool
- Bitter Sweet
- Do The Football
- She Loves Me
- Cocaine Elaine
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ISI on 1st in top 10 Intelligence Agencies in the World - 2011 (by American Crime News Report)
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- Duration: 9:00
- Published: 20 May 2011
- Uploaded: 14 Nov 2011
- Author: PakistanHeaven
Top 10 Best Intelligence Agencies in the World - 2011 ISI is on number 1 By American Crime News Report - New york United States LONG LIVE ISI - LONG LIVE PAKISTAN
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Former Pakistani ISI Chief Hamid Gul: "God Help America!!" - The Alex Jones Show 1/4
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- Duration: 14:58
- Published: 16 Aug 2010
- Uploaded: 11 Nov 2011
- Author: TheAlexJonesChannel
In a landmark interview, Alex talks with former director of Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence, Hamid Gul. Mr. Gul recently characterized the "leaked" Wikileaks documents implicating him in a string of attacks against US and NATO forces in Afghanistan as "malicious, fictitious, and preposterous." www.infowars.com www.prisonplanet.tv
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Army, ISI will be under me if I'm the PM: Imran Khan
Pakistani opposition leader and Tehreek e Insaaf chief Imran Khan said he will rein in the Pakistani Army and the ISI if he becomes Prime Minister. ibnlive.com
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ISI Introductory Video (With Business Matching Events)
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- Duration: 3:50
- Published: 10 Nov 2011
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- Author: ImportSafety
ISI is a solution to global sourcing and supplier management developed by Intertek to meet market needs in finding and managing reliable suppliers in the supply chains. ISI is the platform to bridge the gap between buyers and suppliers, maximizing visibility, minimizing risks and facilitating business success.
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Neu! - Isi
Neu! with a more electronic sound side of them by the time of their third album: NEU! 75 released in 1975. The band started to use more electronic gadgets than ever before by the time Isi was recorded. KLAUS DINGER: Drums. MICHAEL ROTHER: Guitar, Synths, Piano. Progressive Rock / Krautrock / Ambient / Space Rock / Electronic.
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Ex-ISI Chief Hamid Gul: CIA "Choreographing" Osama Assassination Hoax
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- Duration: 14:06
- Published: 02 May 2011
- Uploaded: 11 Nov 2011
- Author: TheAlexJonesChannel
Alex talks with retired Pakistani Army three star general, Hamid Gul. Gul claims that it is wrong to say that the Pakistani government or the Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) had been harbouring Al Qaeda leader and 9/11 mastermind Osama bin Laden. www.infowars.com www.prisonplanet.tv www.infowars.net www.prisonplanet.com
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Excl: Musharraf says ISI did not hide Osama - 2
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- Duration: 10:55
- Published: 05 May 2011
- Uploaded: 06 Nov 2011
- Author: timesnowonline
Ruling out an apology to Pakistan for its unilateral military action against its "enemy number one" Osama bin Laden deep inside that country, the US has said the critical mission could have been compromised if it had informed Islamabad about it. "We make no apologies about that," White House Press Secretary Jay Carney told reporters when asked whether the US should have gone unilaterally inside Pakistan to get bin Laden. General Pervez Musharraf, Former President of Pakistan, speaks exclusively with TIMES NOW's Editor-in-Chief Arnab Goswami on this issue.
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'ISI active in Bangladesh'
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- Published: 25 Jul 2011
- Uploaded: 05 Nov 2011
- Author: timesnowonline
After the United States, it is now Bangladesh that has issued a stern warning to Pakistan. Speaking to TIMES NOW, Bangladesh Home Minister Saharah Khatun said that the Pakistan ISI is actively operating in her nation. She also added that her nation will not tolerate Pak ISI or terrorists to operate and she promised to arrest those involved in the same.
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Pak hits back at US over ISI Haqqani link
Pakistan has hit back at US allegations that ISI supports the Haqqani militant group fighting coalition troops in Afghanistan. Besides denying the terror links, the Pak Government and the army went into a tizzy over it. The Pakistan Prime Minister Yusuf Raza Gilani called for an all party meeting while the army chief held a 6 hour meeting on possible US strikes in the North West. Rumours also prevailed that foreign minister Hina Rabbani has been recalled from the UN meeting in New York. NewsX correspondent Geeta Mohan report.
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Isi Life Mein
Rajshri Productions' Isi Life Mein revolves around the lives of two teenagers in today's world and the belief that one not only has the right to dream but also the ability to fulfil one's dreams, ISI LIFE MEIN...! Debutante director Vidhi Kasliwal introduces two new faces Akshay Oberoi and Sandeepa Dhar as the lead pair. The film also stars Mohnish Behl and Prachi Shah.
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Pentagon: Pakistan ISI Behind Deadly Attacks in Afghanistan, CIA Increase Drone Strikes
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- Duration: 3:07
- Published: 23 Sep 2011
- Uploaded: 14 Nov 2011
- Author: zaqura1001
Joint Chiefs Chairman Adm. Mike Mullen called the Haqqani network a "veritable arm" of the ISI. Testifying alongside Mullen, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said the US has warned Pakistani authorities it will not tolerate a continuation of the group's cross-border attacks... In a congressional hearing. The Pakistani government, through its intelligence service, is "actively involved" in directing the militant Haqqani network to launch terrorist attacks against US and Afghan government targets in Kabul, US military officials said. The officials told NBC News the ISI, Pakistan's powerful spy agency, directed the attacks by Haqqani militants on the US Embassy on Sept. 13 and on the Inter-Continental Hotel on June 28. It's suspected ISI also had a role in the massive truck bombing targeting an American base in eastern Afghanistan on the eve of the 10th anniversary of the 9/11 terror attacks, the officials said. In a congressional hearing Thursday, Joint Chiefs Chairman Adm. Mike Mullen called the Haqqani network a "veritable arm" of the ISI. Testifying alongside Mullen, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said the US has warned Pakistani authorities it will not tolerate a continuation of the group's cross-border attacks. Military officials told NBC the Pakistanis are convinced that the US is preparing to totally withdraw all its forces from Afghanistan and are "hedging their bets" for when that day arrives. "They're looking ahead, well past the Americans," an official said <b>...</b>
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Ambala terror: Intelligence points towards Pak ISI
The Ambala terror plot may have been foiled. But the probe into its trail is unraveling disturbing facts. The key Haryana cantonment town perilously close to Delhi is once again emerging as a terror hub nearly 3 decades after the height of Punjab terrorism days. Intelligence sources are pointing to an elaborate terror plot hatched by Pakistan's ISI.
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Matt Waldman on Taliban-ISI links
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- Duration: 6:03
- Published: 13 Jun 2010
- Uploaded: 25 Jul 2011
- Author: AlJazeeraEnglish
Matt Waldman, a fellow at Harvard University, is the author of a new report accusing Pakistan's Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) of funding and training the Afghan insurgency. In an interview with Al Jazeera, Waldman discusses his methodology and the reasons why Pakistan might view the Taliban as an ally.
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ISI Insider - Hamid Gul - I
In a special show 'ISI Insider - Hamid Gul', NewsX speaks exclusively to former ISI chief Hamid Gul on Pakistan post Osama bin Laden and more.
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The Reasons Why ISI (Inter Services Intelligence) of Pakistan is World's Top Intelligence Agency
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- Duration: 1:07
- Published: 14 Jun 2011
- Uploaded: 14 Nov 2011
- Author: ISIcyberAGENT
ISI is world's top & leading Intelligence Agency its a least funded Agency but still has best track record in the world Also an American news paper "Crime News" New York Ranked ISI no 1 intelligence Organization in the world For More Information www.tiptoptens.com
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AQ.Khan: ISI a rogue organization that must be disbanded ; Najam Sethi - Aapas Ki Baat
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- Duration: 3:39
- Published: 14 Jul 2011
- Uploaded: 08 Nov 2011
- Author: atypicalindian
The notorious "Merchant of Menace" is back in the news! AQ Khan stole the nuclear know-how from The Netherlands and still could not give Pakistan the nuclear bomb without the Chinese help. He has now dobbed in the ISI and the Pakistani establishment exposing their involvement in the nuclear proliferation to other rogue nations like North Korea. AQ even calls for disbanding the ISI. The same ISI that our favourite clown Zaid Hamid sucks up to!
http://wn.com/AQKhan_ISI_a_rogue_organization_that_must_be_disbanded_;_Najam_Sethi__Aapas_Ki_Baat
Assange: US was suspicious of ISI's cooperation in hunt for Osama
Speaking to NDTV, WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange said that Pakistan cables indicate that the US ambassadors were suspicious of the ISI's cooperation in the hunt for Osama bin Laden.
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Debate: ISI's seminar circuit - 1
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The FBI has arrested prominent Kashmiri separatist leader Ghulam Nabi Fai for allegedly being on the payroll of Pakistan's ISI, which funnelled millions of dollars to him for over two decades, and illegally lobbying US lawmakers to influence the American policy on Kashmir. 62-year-old Fai, a US citizen, was arrested by the federal agency yesterday from his home in Fairfax, Virginia, on charges of being an ISI agent who lobbied for the Pakistani spy agency and army on the issue of Kashmir. The agency filed a 43-page affidavit in a US court in Alexandria in connection with the indictment of Fai andanother US citizen Zaheer Ahmad, 63, as agents of Pakistan. Fai, popular as "doctor sahib" among thePakistani-American community here, was produced before the court hours after being arrested by FBI.TIMES NOW's Editor-in-Chief Arnab Goswami debates the issue with Zafar Hilaly, Former Pak Ambassador to US; Sajjad Lone, President, People's Conference; Vijay Sazawal, National president, Indo-American Kashmir Forum; Saifuddin Soz, Senior Leader, Congress; Ajit Doval, Former Director IB; Kamal Mitra Shenoy, Sociologist, JNU; Ashok Pandit, Filmmaker and Social Activist and Aditya Raj Kaul, Journalist & Social Activist.
http://wn.com/Debate_ISI's_seminar_circuit__1
krishna.movIndia's stand on ISI vindicated: Krishna
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India on Sunday (September 25) said it was good that the US recognised the link between the Haqqani network and the Pakistan intelligence agency ISI, both of which have been blamed for the assassination of former Afghan President Burhanudin Rabbani.
http://wn.com/krishnamovIndia's_stand_on_ISI_vindicated_Krishna
The Platform: Seeking renewed ISI CIA cooperation (part I)
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Cooperation between ISI and CIA over the recent raid in Quetta which yielded the arrest of senior al Qaeda operative Younis Al Mauritani sparked a debate over the opportunities and limitations of a relationship between the ISI and the CIA. These questions were answered by Lt Gen (r) Talat Masood, military analyst, and Former Pakistan Ambassador to Kabul Ayaz Wazir in Islamabad. They were joined by Michael O'Hanlon: Foreign Policy Expert senior fellow at the Brookings Institute and James Kitfield Defence analyst national security correspondent for the National Journal The hosts Raza Naqvi in Washington and Waqas Rafique in Islamabad. Feedback: email: theplatform@expressnews.tv Twitter: @VOAXprsPlatform
http://wn.com/The_Platform_Seeking_renewed_ISI_CIA_cooperation_part_I
US Witness Links Pakistan's ISI, Militants
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A key US witness has told a Chicago jury that "it was his understanding" that Lashkar-e-Taiba, the Pakistani militant group behind the 2008 Mumbai terror attacks, and Pakistan's intelligence service "coordinated with each other." (May 23)
http://wn.com/US_Witness_Links_Pakistan's_ISI,_Militants
Pakistan's ISI chief Shuja Pasha may quit
Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) chief Lt Gen Ahmad Shuja Pasha may step down in the wake of widespread criticism of the Pakistani establishment over US special forces killing Osama bin Laden near a key military facility in the garrison city of Abbottabad.
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Pak's ISI, LeT trying to revive Sikh militancy
The foiled terror plot in Ambala which was meant to target Delhi shows once again how the Lashkar-e-Toiba is trying to revive the Sikh militancy in Punjab by forging a nexus with terrorist groups like the Babbar Khalsa.
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| Caption | The goddess Isis is portrayed as a woman, wearing a headress shaped like a throne; sometimes she is also shown with bird's wings. |
|---|---|
| Name | Isis |
| God of | Goddess of motherhood, magic and fertility |
| Cult center | Philae, Abydos |
| Symbol | the throne, the sun disk with cow's horns, the sycamore tree |
| Parents | Geb and Nut |
| Siblings | Osiris, Set, Horus, and Nephthys |
| Consort | Osiris |
| Children | Horus and Anubis (Anubis is fostered) |
The goddess Isis (the mother of Horus) was the first daughter of Geb, god of the Earth, and Nut, the goddess of the Overarching Sky, and was born on the fourth intercalary day. At some time Isis and Hathor had the same headdress. In later myths about Isis, she had a brother, Osiris, who became her husband, and she then was said to have conceived Horus. Isis was instrumental in the resurrection of Osiris when he was murdered by Seth. Her magical skills restored his body to life after she gathered the body parts that had been strewn about the earth by Set. This myth became very important in later Egyptian religious beliefs.
Isis is also known as protector of the dead and goddess of children from whom all beginnings arose. In later times, the Ancient Egyptians believed that the Nile River flooded every year because of her tears of sorrow for her dead husband, Osiris. This occurrence of his death and rebirth was relived each year through rituals. The worship of Isis eventually spread throughout the Greco-Roman world, continuing until the suppression of paganism in the Christian era.
Origin of the name
The name "Isis" is an anglicized version of the Greek version of her name, which itself changed the original Egyptian name spelling by the addition of a last "-s" because of the grammatical requirements of Greek endings.The Egyptian name was recorded as or and meant "(She of the) Throne." The true Egyptian pronunciation remains uncertain, however, because hieroglyphs do not have vowels. Based on recent studies which present us with approximations based on contemporary languages (specifically, Greek) and Coptic evidence, the reconstructed pronunciation of her name is *Usat . Osiris's name—that is, *Usir 'Osiris' (ws-ỉr) also starts with the throne glyph ("-s"). The name survived in Coptic dialects as Ēse or Ēsi, as well as in compound words surviving in names of later people such as "Har-si-Ese", which means "Horus, son of Isis".
For convenience, Egyptologists arbitrarily choose to pronounce her name as "ee-set". Sometimes they may also say "ee-sa" because the final "t" in her name was a feminine suffix, which is known to have been dropped in speech during the last stages of the Egyptian language.
The name Isis means "Throne". Her headdress is a throne. As the personification of the throne, she was an important representation of the pharaoh's power, as the pharaoh was depicted as her child, who sat on the throne she provided. Her cult was popular throughout Egypt, but the most important sanctuaries were at Behbeit El-Hagar in the Nile delta, in Lower Egypt and, beginning in the reign with Nectanebo I (380-362 BCE), on the Upper Egyptian island of Philae.
Early history
Her origins are uncertain, but are believed to have come from the Nile Delta. Like other Egyptian deities she did have a centralized Cult of Isis (New cults) in the Hellenistic Civilization. First mentions of Isis date back to the Fifth dynasty of Egypt which is when the first literary inscriptions are found, but her cult became prominent late in Egyptian history, when it began to absorb the cults of many other goddesses with strong cult centers. This is when the cult of Osiris arose and she became such an important figure in those beliefs. Her cult eventually spread outside Egypt.During the formative centuries of Christianity, the religion of Isis drew converts from every corner of the Roman Empire. In Italy itself, the Egyptian faith was a dominant force. At Pompeii, archaeological evidence reveals that Isis played a major role. In Rome, temples were built and obelisks erected in her honour. In Greece, traditional centres of worship in Delos, Delphi, and Eleusis were taken over by followers of Isis, and this occurred in northern Greece and Athens as well. Harbours of Isis were to be found on the Arabian Sea and the Black Sea. Inscriptions show followers in Gaul, Spain, Pannonia, Germany, Arabia, Asia Minor, Portugal and many shrines even in Britain.
Temples
Most Egyptian deities first appeared as very local cults and throughout their history retained those local centres of worship, with most major cities and towns widely known as the home of these deities. Isis originally was an independent and popular deity established in predynastic times, prior to 3100 BC, at Sebennytos in the northern delta.
Eventually temples to Isis began to spread outside of Egypt. In many locations, devotees of Isis considered a number of the local goddesses to be Isis, but under different names. The worship of Isis was joined to that of other Mediterranean goddesses, such as Demeter, Astarte, Aphrodite, and more. During the Hellenic era, due to her attributes as a protector and mother, as well as a lusty aspect gained when she absorbed some aspects of Hathor, she became the patron goddess of sailors, who spread her worship with the trading ships circulating the Mediterranean Sea.
Likewise, the Arabian goddess Al-Ozza or Al-Uzza العُزّى (al ȝozza), whose name is close to that of Isis, is believed to be a manifestation of her. This, however, is thought to be based on the similarity in the name.
Throughout the Graeco-Roman world, Isis became one of the most significant of the mystery religions, and many classical writers refer to her temples, cults, and rites.
Temples to Isis were built in Iraq, Greece and Rome, with a well preserved example discovered in Pompeii. On the Greek island of Delos a Doric Temple of Isis was built on a high over-looking hill at the beginning of the Roman period to venerate the familiar trinity of Isis, the Alexandrian Serapis and Harpocrates. The creation of this temple is significant as Delos is particularly known as the birthplace of the Greek gods Artemis and Apollo who had temples of their own on the island long before the temple to Isis was built. At Philae her worship persisted until the 6th century, long after the rise of Christianity and the subsequent suppression of paganism. The cult of Isis and Osiris continued up until the 6th century AD on the island of Philae in Upper Nile. The Theodosian decree (in about 380 AD) to destroy all pagan temples was not enforced there until the time of Justinian. This toleration was due to an old treaty made between the Blemyes-Nobadae and Diocletian. Every year they visited Elaphantine and at certain intervals took the image of Isis up river to the land of the Blemyes for oracular purposes before returning it. Justinian sent Narses to destroy the sanctuaries, with the priests being arrested and the divine images taken to Constantinople. Philae was the last of the ancient Egyptian temples to be closed.
Priesthood
Little information on Egyptian rituals for Isis survives, however, it is clear there were both priests and priestesses officiating at her cult rituals throughout its entire history. By the Greco-Roman era, many of them were healers, and were said to have many other special powers, including dream interpretation and the ability to control the weather, which they did by braiding or not combing their hair. The latter was believed because the Egyptians considered knots to have magical powers.
Iconography
Associations
Due to the association between knots and magical power, a symbol of Isis was the tiet or tyet (meaning welfare/life), also called the Knot of Isis, Buckle of Isis, or the Blood of Isis, which is shown to the right. In many respects the tyet resembles an ankh, except that its arms point downward, and when used as such, seems to represent the idea of eternal life or resurrection. The meaning of Blood of Isis is more obscure, but the tyet often was used as a funerary amulet made of red wood, stone, or glass, so this may simply have been a description of the appearance of the materials used.The star Sopdet (Sirius) is associated with Isis. The appearance of the star signified the advent of a new year and Isis was likewise considered the goddess of rebirth and reincarnation, and as a protector of the dead. The Book of the Dead outlines a particular ritual that would protect the dead, enabling travel anywhere in the underworld, and most of the titles Isis holds signify her as the goddess of protection of the dead.
Probably due to assimilation with the goddesses Aphrodite and Venus, during the Roman period, the rose was used in her worship. The demand for roses throughout the empire turned rose production into an important industry.
Depictions
In art, originally Isis was pictured as a woman wearing a long sheath dress and crowned with the hieroglyphic sign for a throne. Sometimes she was depicted as holding a lotus, or, as a Sycamore tree. One pharaoh, Thutmose III, was depicted in his tomb as nursing from a sycamore tree that had a breast.After she assimilated many of the roles of Hathor, Isis's headdress is replaced with that of Hathor: the horns of a cow on her head, with the solar disk between them. Sometimes she also was represented as a cow, or a cow's head. Usually, however, she was depicted with her young child, Horus (the pharaoh), with a crown, and a vulture. Occasionally she was represented as a kite flying above the body of Osiris or with the dead Osiris across her lap as she worked her magic to bring him back to life.
Most often Isis is seen holding only the generic ankh sign and a simple staff, but in late images she is seen sometimes with items usually associated only with Hathor, the sacred sistrum rattle and the fertility-bearing menat necklace. In The Book of Coming Forth By Day Isis is depicted standing on the prow of the Solar Bark with her arms outstretched.
Isis in literature
Plutarch, a Greek scholar who lived from 46 AD to 120 AD, wrote Isis and Osiris, which is considered a main source about the very late myths about Isis. In it he writes of Isis, describing her as: " a goddess exceptionally wise and a lover of wisdom, to whom, Fas her name at least seems to indicate, knowledge and understanding are in the highest degree appropriate.." and that the statue of Athena (Plutarch says 'whom they believe to be Isis' in Sais carried the inscription "I am all that has been, and is, and shall be, and my robe no mortal has yet uncovered." At Sais, however, the patron goddess of its ancient cult was Neith, many of whose traits had begun to be attributed to Isis during the Greek occupation. In The Golden Ass the Roman writer Apuleius later gives us his understanding of Isis in the 2nd century, and describes the Navigium Isidis festival. The following paragraph is particularly significant:
Mythology
When seen as the deification of the wife of the pharaoh in later myths, the prominent role of Isis was as the assistant to the deceased pharaoh. Thus she gained a funerary association, her name appearing over eighty times in the Pyramid Texts, and she was said to be the mother of the four deities who protected the canopic jars—more specifically, Isis was viewed as protector of the liver-jar-deity, Imsety. This association with the pharaoh's wife also brought the idea that Isis was considered the spouse of Horus (once seen as her child), who was protector, and later the deification of the pharaoh. By the Middle Kingdom, the 11th through 14th dynasties between 2040 and 1640 BC, as the funeral texts began to be used by more members of Egyptian society, other than the royal family, her role also grows to protect the nobles and even the commoners.By the New Kingdom, the 18th, 19th, and 20th dynasties between 1570 and 1070 BC, Isis gained prominence as the mother and protector of the pharaoh. During this period, she is said to breastfeed the pharaoh and often is depicted doing so.
The role of her name and her throne-crown is uncertain. Some early Egyptologists believed that being the throne-mother was Isis's original function, however, a more modern view states that aspects of that role came later by association. In many African tribes, the throne is known as the mother of the king, and that concept fits well with either theory, possibly giving insight into the thinking of ancient Egyptians.
Sister-wife to Osiris
In the Old Kingdom, the 3rd Dynasty through to the 6th Dynasty dated between 2686 to 2134 BC, the pantheons of individual Egyptian cities varied by region. During the 5th dynasty, Isis became one of the Ennead of the city of Heliopolis. She was believed to be a daughter of Nut and Geb, and sister to Osiris, Nephthys, and Set. The two sisters, Isis and Nephthys, often were depicted on coffins, with wings outstretched, as protectors against evil. As a funerary deity, she was associated with Osiris, lord of the underworld (Duat), and was considered his wife.A later mythology (ultimately a result of the replacement of another deity, Anubis, of the underworld when the cult of Osiris gained more authority), tells us of the birth of Anubis. The tale describes how Nephthys was denied a child by Set and disguised herself as the much more attractive Isis to seduce him. The plot failed, but Osiris now found Nephthys very attractive, as he thought she was Isis. They coupled, resulting in the birth of Anubis. Alternatively, Nephthys had intentionally assumed the form of Isis in order to trick Osiris into fathering her son. In fear of Set's retribution upon them, Nephthys persuaded Isis to adopt Anubis, so that Set would not find out and kill the child. The tale describes both why Anubis is seen as an underworld deity (he becomes a son of Osiris), and why he could not inherit Osiris's position (he was not a legitimate heir in this new birth scenario), neatly preserving Osiris's position as lord of the underworld. It should be remembered, however, that this new myth was only a later creation of the Osirian cult who wanted to depict Set in an evil position, as the enemy of Osiris.
In another Osirian myth, Set had a banquet for Osiris in which he brought in a beautiful box and said that whoever could fit in the box perfectly would get to keep it. Set had measured Osiris in his sleep and made sure that he was the only one who could fit the box. Several tried to see whether they fit. Once it was Osiris's turn to see if he could fit in the box, Set closed the lid on him so that the box was now a coffin for Osiris. Set flung the box in the Nile so that it would drift far away. Isis went looking for the box so that Osiris could have a proper burial. She found the box in a tree in Byblos, a city along the Phoenician coast, and brought it back to Egypt, hiding it in a swamp. But Set went hunting that night and found the box. Enraged, Set chopped Osiris's body into fourteen pieces and scattered them all over Egypt to ensure that Isis could never find Osiris again for a proper burial. Isis and her sister Nephthys went looking for these pieces, but could only find thirteen of the fourteen. Fish had swallowed the last piece, his phallus, so Isis made him a new one with magic, putting his body back together after which they conceived Horus. The number of pieces is described on temple walls variously as fourteen and sixteen, and occasionally forty-two, one for each nome or district.
Assimilation of Hathor
When the cult of Ra rose to prominence he became associated with the similar deity, Horus. Hathor had been paired with Ra in some regions and when Isis began to be paired with Ra, soon Hathor and Isis began to be merged in some regions also as, Isis-Hathor.
Mother of Horus
By merging with Hathor, Isis became the mother of Horus, rather than his wife, and thus, when beliefs of Ra absorbed Atum into Atum-Ra, it also had to be taken into account that Isis was one of the Ennead, as the wife of Osiris. It had to be explained how Osiris, however, who (as lord of the dead) being dead, could be considered a father to Horus, who was not considered dead. This conflict in themes led to the evolution of the idea that Osiris needed to be resurrected, and therefore, to the Legend of Osiris and Isis, of which Plutarch's Greek description written in the 1st century AD, De Iside et Osiride, contains the most extensive account known today.Yet another set of late myths detail the adventures of Isis after the birth of Osiris's posthumous son, Horus. Isis was said to have given birth to Horus at Khemmis, thought to be located on the Nile Delta. Many dangers faced Horus after birth, and Isis fled with the newborn to escape the wrath of Set, the murderer of her husband. In one instance, Isis heals Horus from a lethal scorpion sting; she also performs other miracles in relation to the cippi, or the plaques of Horus. Isis protected and raised Horus until he was old enough to face Set, and subsequently, became the pharaoh of Egypt.
Magic
In order to resurrect Osiris for the purpose of having the child Horus, it was necessary for Isis to "learn" magic (which long had been her domain before the cult of Ra arose), and so it was said that Isis tricked Ra (i.e. Amun-Ra/Atum-Ra) into telling her his "secret name," by causing a snake to bite him, for which only Isis had the cure. The names of deities were secret and not divulged to any but the religious leaders. Knowing the secret name of a deity enabled one to have power of the deity. That he would use his "secret name" to "survive" implies that the serpent had to be a more powerful deity than Ra. The oldest deity known in Egypt was Wadjet, the Egyptian cobra, whose cult never was eclipsed in Ancient Egyptian religion. As a deity from the same region, she would have been a benevolent resource for Isis. The use of secret names became central in late Egyptian magic spells, and Isis often is implored to "use the true name of Ra" in the performance of rituals. By the late Egyptian historical period, after the occupations by the Greeks and the Romans, Isis became the most important and most powerful deity of the Egyptian pantheon because of her magical skills. Magic is central to the entire mythology of Isis, arguably more so than any other Egyptian deity. Prior to this late change in the nature of Egyptian religion, the rule of Ma'at had governed the correct actions for most of the thousands of years of Egyptian religion, with little need for magic. Thoth had been the deity who resorted to magic when it was needed. The goddess which held the quadruple roles of healer, protector of the canopic jars, protector of marriage, and goddess of magic previously had been Serket. She then became considered an aspect of Isis. Thus it is not surprising that Isis had a central role in Egyptian magic spells and ritual, especially those of protection and healing. In many spells, she also is completely merged even with Horus, where invocations of Isis are supposed to involve Horus's powers automatically as well. In Egyptian history the image of a wounded Horus became a standard feature of Isis's healing spells, which typically invoked the curative powers of the milk of Isis. (Silverman, Ancient Egypt, 135)
By nation
In Egypt
Isis was venerated first in Egypt. Isis was the only goddess worshiped by all Egyptians alike, and whose influence was so widespread that she had become completely syncretic with the Greek goddess Demeter. After the conquest of Egypt by Alexander the Great, and the Hellenization of the Egyptian culture initiated by Ptolemy I Soter, Isis eventually became known as Queen of Heaven.
Greco-Roman world
Following the conquest of Egypt by Alexander the Great the worship of Isis spread throughout the Graeco-Roman world. Tacitus writes that after Julius Caesar's assassination, a temple in honour of Isis had been decreed; Augustus suspended this, and tried to turn Romans back to the Roman deities who were closely associated with the state. Eventually the Roman emperor Caligula abandoned the Augustan wariness toward what was described as oriental cults, and it was in his reign that the Isiac festival of the Navigium Isidis was established in Rome. According to Josephus, Caligula donned female garb and took part in the mysteries he instituted, and in the Hellenistic age Isis acquired a "new rank as a leading goddess of the Mediterranean world." Vespasian, along with Titus, practised incubation in the Roman Iseum. Domitian built another Iseum along with a Serapeum. Trajan appears before Isis and Horus, presenting them with votive offerings of wine, in a bas-relief on his triumphal arch in Rome. Hadrian decorated his villa at Tibur with Isiac scenes. Galerius regarded Isis as his protectress.Roman perspectives on cults were syncretic, seeing in new deities, merely local aspects of a familiar one. For many Romans, Egyptian Isis was an aspect of Phrygian Cybele, whose orgiastic rites were long-naturalized at Rome, indeed, she was known as Isis of Ten Thousand Names.
Among these names of Roman Isis, Queen of Heaven is outstanding for its long and continuous history. Herodotus identified Isis with the Greek and Roman goddesses of agriculture, Demeter and Ceres.
In later years, Isis also had temples throughout Europe, Africa and Asia. An alabaster statue of Isis from the 3rd century BC, found in Ohrid, in the Republic of Macedonia, is depicted on the obverse of the Macedonian 10 denars banknote, issued in 1996.
The male first name "Isidore" (also "Isador"), means in Greek "Gift of Isis" (similar to "Theodore", "God's Gift"). The name, which became common in Roman times, survived the suppression of the Isis worship and remains popular up to the present - being among others the name of several Christian saints.
Titles
In the Book of the Dead Isis was described as:
See also
Notes
References
Primary sources
Secondary sources
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