Isis and Osiris

The ancient Egyptian myth of Isis and Osiris - the story of a goddess's search for and reassembling of her brother/husband's dismembered body has haunted humanity's imagination since the dawn of time. Over the centuries this tale of love and betrayal, of death and resurrection, has made its way from the fertile Nile valley to affect cultures throughout the world. The Cult of Isis flourishes even to this day in many corners of the globe, five thousand years after its first mention in ancient Egyptian tents. This myth's significance as an archetype is undeniable. As books like Joseph Campbell's The Power of Myth and Clarissa Pinkola Estes's Women Who Run with the Wolves have taught us, the retelling of a myth over scores of generations serves to fertilize the deepest levels of our imagination, and few myths have appeared over the last fifty centuries in as many different forms as this one. Isis's journey to find and awaken Osiris echoes Psyche's quest for Eros and Orpheus's search for E