The iset wabet is the place of purity that is, the sanctuary. Iset Weret is the Great Place, an idiom for Heaven. Judging by the uses of it we have left to us, it often means an important or sacred place. Just as we say we have our heart set (a word that comes from seat) on something, the Egyptian wished for her iset ib-literally the seat of the heart-but meaning her heart’s desire.Įven more generally, iset means place. Similarly, iset smeter means judgment seat and the term referred to a tribunal of judges. For example, when we say “he is in the seat of power,” we are not often referring to an actual seat, but we mean that he is in charge. The ancient Egyptians seemed to have had a flexible, idiomatic use for the word similar to its use in English. Interestingly, “throne” isn’t even the most common meaning for the hieroglyph Isis wears on Her head. To identify Her, the Goddess often wears the hieroglyph for throne on Her head.īut to me, defining Isis-arguably the Greatest Goddess of all time-as merely the “royal throne” is the most bloodless and boring of the possible explanations of the meaning of Her name. To rule, the king must sit in the lap of the Goddess as Her child and husband. A feminist interpretation could rightly be that no king could take his place on the throne unless he had a right relationship with the Goddess Throne. As the personification of the royal throne, Isis is the institution of the kingship itself. After death, the king became an Osiris, so naturally Isis became his mourning widow. The living king, seen as the embodiment of the God Horus, was considered the son of Isis (as well as many other Goddesses). It is certainly true that Isis was associated with the kingship-as were all the major Deities and most of the minor ones.
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The golden throne found in Tutankhamun's tomb. For a detailed explanation of the pronunciation of Her name, please see my post here.) This is the most common way the name of Isis is written in hieroglyphs. In Egyptian, Her name would have been more like Iset ( Ee-set) or Eset ( Eh-set), which you have probably seen as Aset.
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That’s usually the first thing you find when you look into the meaning of the name “Isis.” (And if you’re interested in the meaning of Her name, you probably already know that Isis is the Greek version. “In Egyptian, the name Isis means throne and Isis was thought to be the embodiment of the royal throne.”