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7. Do you believe in fabulous animals or study Cryptozoology? (Cryptozoology is the study of animals like Bigfoot, Loch Ness Monster, Yeti etc) hell yes!

23. Do you enjoy wine or other alcoholic drinks? who me? never!


i'm ISIS!!!!

check here for descriptions of your inner god or goddess, because the results dont give any explaination: http://members.aol.com/egyptart/list.html

Attributes: Isis is one of the earliest and most important goddess in ancient Egypt. She was regarded as the feminine counterpart to Osiris, a role she probably occupied before the dawn of dynastic Egypt. No other Egyptian deity has stood the test of time as well as Isis. Her cult was not extinguished with the other Egyptian gods, but was embraced by the Greeks and Romans, her worship has even lasted into the present day.

She was revered by the Egyptian people as the great mother-goddess and represents the maternal spirit in its most intimate form. She is often seen suckling a young Horus. In the Osiris legend she is seen as a dutiful wife, a grieving widow and as a protector of the dead.

As a winged goddess she may represent the wind. In the Osiris legend there are references to Isis wailing and moaning like the wind. She is also continually travelling up and down the land in search of her lost husband. Upon finding Osiris' body, she takes the shape of one of the swiftest birds, a kite. Flapping and darting above his dead body she wails in mourning. She restores life to Osiris by flapping her wings and filling his mouth and nose with air.

Isis was a great enchantress, the goddess of magic. Together with Thoth, she taught mankind the secrets of medicine. She was the embalmer and gaurdian of Osiris. She is often rendered on the foot of coffins with long wings spread to protect the deceased.


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2006-03-20 2:05 PM
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Bastet

The Tearer.



  • Cult Center: Bubastis in the Delta.

  • Attributes: As a sun goddess she represents the warm, life giving power of the sun. Her cult appears as early as the Second Dynasty. Like a cat, she was admired for her agility and strength. Bast defended Ra against the serpent Apep.

  • Representation: A woman with the head of a domesticated cat, sometimes holding a sistrum.

  • Relations: Daughter and wife of Ra, mother of Khensu and Maahes.

  • Other Names: Bast.
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kim - the warm, life giving power of the sun!
2006-03-20 2:17 PM
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autumn - 2006-03-20 12:09 PM kim - the warm, life giving power of the sun!

And agile and strong to boot!

Now stop posting these things so I can get some work done! I command you!

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work shmirk! i'm hitting 4000 by the end of the week, darnit!


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autumn - 2006-03-20 12:19 PM work shmirk! i'm hitting 4000 by the end of the week, darnit!

If you were up to Comet standards, you'd hit it by the end of the day.

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is anyone up to comet standards? okay, maybe bear.

and i'm tryin'!
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2006-03-20 5:19 PM
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Bast

Other Names: Bastet, Ailuros

Patron of: the sun (originally), the moon (after the Greeks), cats, women, and secrets.

Appearance: A desert cat, or a woman with the head of a cat (this form possibly dates after the domestication of the Egyptian wild cat).

Description: Probably the most famous Egyptian goddess after Isis, Bast was said to be the daughter of Ra, though long after he created the primal gods. She was originally a sun goddess, but after contact with the Greeks, she changed to a moon goddess, probably due to the Greeks associating her with Artemis.

Like Artemis, Bast was a wild goddess. To those who were in her favor, she gave great blessings, but her wrath was legendary (hey, that's me!) and she was sometimes listed as one of Ra's avenging deities who punish the sinful and the enemies of Egypt. This is of course in keeping with her totem animal, the cat. Cats were sacred to Bast, and to harm one was deemed a great transgression. Bast's importance in the Egyptian pantheon might be due to the great value placed on the domesticated cat by the Egyptians. Cats curtailed the spread of disease by killing vermin, and though the idea of microbes was unknown to the ancient Egyptians, they must have noticed the connection between rats and disease.

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