Isis

I·sis

I0247100 (ī′sĭs)n. Mythology An ancient Egyptian goddess of fertility and magic who was the sister and wife of Osiris.

[Latin Īsis, from Greek, from Egyptian 'st.]

Isis

(ˈaɪsɪs) n (Placename) the local name for the River Thames at Oxford

Isis

(ˈaɪsɪs) n (Non-European Myth & Legend) an ancient Egyptian fertility goddess, depicted as a woman with a cow's horns, between which was the disc of the sun; wife and sister of Osiris

I•sis

(ˈaɪ sɪs)

n. the ancient Egyptian goddess of fertility; sister and wife of Osiris.

I•sis

(ˈaɪ sɪs)
n. the local name of the Thames River at Oxford.

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Isis - Egyptian goddess of fertility; daughter of Geb; sister and wife of Osiris

Translations

Ísis

Isis

(ī`sĭs), nature goddess whose worship, originating in ancient Egypt, gradually extended throughout the lands of the Mediterranean world during the Hellenistic period and became one of the chief religions of the Roman Empire. The worship of Isis, combined with that of her brother and husband OsirisOsiris
, in Egyptian religion, legendary ruler of predynastic Egypt and god of the underworld. He was the son of the sky goddess Nut and the earth god Geb. The great benefactor of mankind, Osiris brought to the people knowledge of agriculture and civilization.
..... Click the link for more information. and their son HorusHorus
, in Egyptian religion, sky god, god of light and goodness. One of the most important of the Egyptian deities, Horus was the son of Osiris and Isis. In a famous myth he avenged the murder of his father by defeating Set, the god of evil and darkness.
..... Click the link for more information. , was enormously resistant to the influence of early Christian teachings, and her mysteries, celebrating the death and resurrection of Osiris, were performed as late as the 6th cent. A.D. The functions of many goddesses were attributed to her, so that eventually she became the prototype of the beneficent mother goddess, the bringer of fertility and consolation to all. She was the daughter of the sky goddess Nut and the earth god Geb. Her symbol was a throne and later the cow, and she was frequently represented with a cow's head or cow's horns. During the Hellenistic period, her image outside Egypt became increasingly Hellenic, with ideal features and locks framing her face. Isis was also a goddess of magic, and legends tell of her ability to counteract evil by casting spells.

Bibliography

See R. E. Witt, Isis in the Greco-Roman World (1981).

Isis:

see ThamesThames
, Rom. Tamesis, principal river of England, c.210 mi (340 km) long. It rises in four headstreams (the Thames or Isis, Churn, Coln, and Leach) in the Cotswold Hills, E Gloucestershire, and flows generally eastward across S England and through London to the North Sea
..... Click the link for more information. , river, England.

ISIS,

Islamic State in Iraq and Syria: see Islamic StateIslamic State
(IS), Sunni Islamic militant group committed to the establishment of an Islamic caliphate that would unite Muslims in a transnational, strict-fundamentalist Islamic state.
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A detail of Isis on a giant statue of Ramses II in the temple at Luxor, Egypt. Reproduced by permission of Fortean Picture Library.

Isis

(religion, spiritualism, and occult)

Isis, asteroid 42 (the 42nd asteroid to be discovered, on May 23, 1856), is approximately 94 kilometers in diameter and has an orbital period of 3.8 years. It was named after a major Egyptian goddess. Initially a divinity of fertility, in later mystery religions Isis became a goddess of wisdom. Her chief myth concerns the dismemberment of her husband Osiris, whom she reconstructed. According to Martha Lang-Wescott, Isis may represent sibling relationships, efforts to get or put things or people “together,” fragmentation or scattered locations. This asteroid’s key word is “collate.” According to J. Lee Lehman, Isis, as well as the asteroid Osiris, indicates “something about the masculine-feminine or left-brain-right-brain balance of a person.” For people in whose charts either of these asteroids is prominent, androgyny will be an issue. Jacob Schwartz gives Isis’s influence as “fragmentation vs. wholeness; sibling issues.”

Sources:

Lang-Wescott, Martha. Asteroids-Mechanics: Ephemerides II. Conway, MA: Treehouse Mountain, 1990.Lang-Wescott. Mechanics of the Future: Asteroids. Rev. ed. Conway, MA: Treehouse Mountain, 1991.Lehman, J. Lee. The Ultimate Asteroid Book. West Chester, PA: Whitford Press, 1988.Schwartz, Jacob. Asteroid Name Encyclopedia. St. Paul, MN: Llewellyn Publications, 1995.

Isis

in ancient Egyptian mythology, one of the most revered goddesses. Her cult became widespread outside Egypt as well (in Asia Minor, Syria, Greece, Italy, Gaul, and elsewhere). The wife and sister of Osiris and the mother of Horus, Isis was considered the personification of conjugal fidelity and motherhood. She was also revered as the goddess of fertility, water and wind, and magic and was considered to be the protectress of the dead and, later, the goddess of navigation. She was depicted as a woman with the head or horns of a cow. The preserved representations of Isis, with the infant Horus in her arms, influenced the iconography of the Virgin Mary.

Isis

¹ the local name for the River Thames at Oxford

Isis

² an ancient Egyptian fertility goddess, depicted as a woman with a cow's horns, between which was the disc of the sun; wife and sister of Osiris

ISIS

(1)A toolkit for implementing fault-tolerant distributedsystems, developed at Cornell and now available commercially

ISIS

(2)A dialect of JOSS.

[Sammet 1969, p. 217].

ISIS

Acronym	Definition
ISIS➣Institute for Software Integrated Systems
ISIS➣Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (group)
ISIS➣Institute for Science and International Security
ISIS➣Institute of Science in Society (UK)
ISIS➣International Society for Infromation Studies
ISIS➣International Study of Infarct Survival
ISIS➣Institute for Surface and Interface Science (Irvine, CA)
ISIS➣Intermediate System to Intermediate System (OSI-compliant routing protocol)
ISIS➣International Secret Intelligence Service (Archer)
ISIS➣International Species Information System
ISIS➣Intermediate System to Intermediate System
ISIS➣Intelligent Scheduling and Information System
ISIS➣Implementation of Student Information System
ISIS➣Intelligent Sensing for Innovative Structures (civil engineering)
ISIS➣Internet Sexuality Information Services (resource)
ISIS➣Image and Scanner Interface Specification
ISIS➣Integrated Submarine Imaging System (US Navy)
ISIS➣Internet Shopping Is Safe
ISIS➣International Security Information Service
ISIS➣Integrated Software for Imagers and Spectrometers (planetary mission graphics)
ISIS➣International Spinal Injection Society (now International Spinal Intervention Society)
ISIS➣Imaging Science and Information Systems (Center; Department of Radiology, Georgetown University Medical Center)
ISIS➣Integrated Standby Instrument System
ISIS➣Institute for the Secularisation of Islamic Society (Amherst, NY)
ISIS➣Institute for Systems, Informatics, and Safety
ISIS➣Industrial Signature Interoperability Specification (Germany)
ISIS➣International Species Inventory System
ISIS➣International Society on Infant Studies
ISIS➣Infinitely Scalable Intelligent Storage
ISIS➣International Satellites for Ionospheric Studies
ISIS➣Investigative Support Information System (US FBI)
ISIS➣Illinois Student Information System (software)
ISIS➣International Spinal Intervention Society (formerly International Spinal Injection Society)
ISIS➣Inter-Service Information Series (various locations)
ISIS➣Image, Speech, and Intelligent Systems Research Group (University of Southampton)
ISIS➣Integrated Staff Information System
ISIS➣Internet Student Information System
ISIS➣International School of Information Science
ISIS➣Innovative Systems in Silicon (International Conference)
ISIS➣Inner Space Interactive Sourcing
ISIS➣In-situ Storage Image Sensor
ISIS➣Information Society Initiatives in Standardization (IEEE)
ISIS➣Image Selected in Vivo Spectroscopy
ISIS➣Investigative Support Information System
ISIS➣Interactive Sound Information System
ISIS➣Interactive Satellite Image Server
ISIS➣Interactive Sound Integration System (PC multichannel sound board)
ISIS➣Integriertes Statistisches Informationssystem (Vienna, Austria)
ISIS➣International Superconductivity Industry Summit
ISIS➣Implementation of the Single European Sky in South East Europe
ISIS➣International Splined Interface Standard (bicycle crank and bottom bracket interface)
ISIS➣Intelligent Searching of Images and Signals
ISIS➣Iowa Student Information System (University of Iowa)
ISIS➣Industry Support Information Services
ISIS➣Intelligent Safety Info System (cars)
ISIS➣Integrated Security and Identification System
ISIS➣Isochronal Scheduled Inspection System
ISIS➣Integrated Ship Information System
ISIS➣Independent School Information Service
ISIS➣Integrated Signals Intelligence System
ISIS➣Institute for the Study of Interdisciplinary Studies
ISIS➣Integrated Standards Information System
ISIS➣In-Situ and Satellite Information System (Oak Ridge National Laboratory)
ISIS➣International Science Information Service
ISIS➣Italian Silicon Sphere
ISIS➣Integrated Safeguards Information System
ISIS➣Interactive Student Information Service
ISIS➣Information Superhighway in Space
ISIS➣Inflatable Shield in Space
ISIS➣Integrated Shipboard Information Systems
ISIS➣International Satellite for Ionospheric Study
ISIS➣Images & Scanners Interface Standard
ISIS➣Integrated Stored Information System
ISIS➣Interactive Scientific Information System
ISIS➣Interoperability and Standardization of Information Systems
ISIS➣Interchangeability/Substitutability Information System
ISIS➣Integrated Strike & Interceptor System
ISIS➣Integrated Systems for Installation Support
ISIS➣Information Systems and Infrastructure Services (MITRE)
ISIS➣Inspection & Safety Information System