Isis

Isis is the greatest of the Egyptian goddesses — wife and sister of Osiris, mother of Horus, mistress of magic, healing, and motherhood. When her husband was murdered and dismembered by his brother Set, Isis gathered the scattered pieces of his body, restored him by her magic, and conceived their son Horus, who would avenge him. Her devotion made her the model of the faithful wife and the protecting mother.

The goddess of many names

In the Hellenistic and Roman ages the cult of Isis spread across the whole Mediterranean, and she came to be seen as a universal goddess who contained all others within her. Apuleius closes his Golden Ass with a radiant vision of Isis, who declares herself the single divinity whom all peoples worship under a thousand names. Plutarch, in his treatise On Isis and Osiris, read the myth philosophically in Platonic terms — Isis as the receptive principle of nature or matter that longs for and receives the rational forms of Osiris, while Set is the disordering power that tears them apart — so making the Egyptian gods speak the language of the Timaeus.