Post by Lt Colonel John Sheppard on Feb 23, 2007 2:30:37 GMT -5
Isis - Egypt - A gentle, loving goddess among the Egyptian deities, Isis is the embodiment of feminity and motherhood. Daughter of Geb, god of the Earth and Nut, the goddess of the Overarching Sky, Isis taught her human followers many useful crafts such as grinding corn, making bread, spinning and weaving, reading, agriculture and specifically to women she taught them how to tame a man enough to live with them. Egyptian pharoahs sat in thrones beneath images of Isis with her arms and/or wings spread over him, thus indicating her protection of the current ruler. Isis loved and married her brother, Osiris, who became the first King of Egypt. Seth killed Osiris in a bid to take the throne, and isis, in her grief, rent her clothing and shaved her head. Isis found her husbands body but it was chopped into pieces by Seth and thrown in different directions. Isis found all the pieces and put him back together. She brought him back to life with her magic by turning into a sparrow hawk and fanning life back into her belvoed with her beautiful long wings. Afterward, Isis conceived the child Horus, who later became the Sun God.
Isis - Egypt - While not appearing in the episode, Isis was nevertheless a key character in that the discovery of the Egyptian treasures from the ill-fated Stewart Expedition included a canopic jar that held the remains of a symbiote presumed to be that of the Goa'uld Isis. The seal on the canopic jar had been broken during transit, rendering the creature inside it dead. An autopsy was performed on the symbiote at the SGC, and further examination of the canopic jar revealed that it was designed to function as a stasis chamber, imprisoning the symbiote presumably by Seth. (The Curse)
Isis - Egypt - While not appearing in the episode, Isis was nevertheless a key character in that the discovery of the Egyptian treasures from the ill-fated Stewart Expedition included a canopic jar that held the remains of a symbiote presumed to be that of the Goa'uld Isis. The seal on the canopic jar had been broken during transit, rendering the creature inside it dead. An autopsy was performed on the symbiote at the SGC, and further examination of the canopic jar revealed that it was designed to function as a stasis chamber, imprisoning the symbiote presumably by Seth. (The Curse)