Egyptian Goddesses in Late Antiquity

Описание: Auset to Isis, first episode in video course by Max Dashu. More episodes look at: Isis syncretized with Demeter, Aphrodite, Fortuna, and other goddesses. Isis Thermoutis, part serpent, part woman. Isis Sothis, of the dog-star Sirius. Egyptian Baubos, erotic and also ceremonial. Besit, ecstatic dancing dwarf goddess. Ptolemaic queens, scientists and philosophers, including Hypatía. Amazon imagery. The persistance of goddesses in Coptic weaving. Forced christianization, supercession of Kemetic religion, and defacements of goddesses: Auset, Neith, Hathor. The last devotees of Isis, the Beja.

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Auset to Isis (Public preview)

Isis-Demeter; Thermoutis, Isis of the Snakes

Isis-Sothis, Isis-Fortuna and other forms; international spread of isis

Isis-Aphrodite (or Ashtart); many Egyptian Baubo figurines

Bes and Besit, and their symbolic meanings

Greco-Roman Isis veneration: devotees, priestesses

Ptolemaic queens: Berenike I, Arsinoe II, the Cleopatras, esp VII

Mary of Egypt, Cleopatra the Chemist, Maria Hebraea, Hypatia

Amazon figures; Coptic weaving; persistence of pagan themes

Forced christianization, supercession of Kemetic religion

Gnostic Goddess; Isis Lactans to christian Madonnas