Model of Motherly Qualities

struggles against social injustices and other forms of social constrains, including the power of language and discourses that legitimate oppressive practices in religion, culture and politics. “I did not know from where arose her strength, her pride. Did it come from an unknown woman I had never seen, a grandmother, or a female antecedent of hers born many years ago, a descendant of Isis or her mother Noot, goddess of the heavens five thousand years ago? For was it not Noot who, speaking to her daughter, had said before she died ‘I say to you, my daughter who will inherit the throne after I am no longer here, be a merciful and just ruler of your people rather than a goddess who depends for her authority on sacred power” ADOI, 1999, hal. 19.

4. Model of Motherly Qualities

The Egyptians gives appreciated to Isis and her family. Family life in Heliopolitan and Isis was the model of motherly qualities. Because, from the New Kingdom in Egyptian, Isis was considered to be the representative mother of life and was a symbol goddess of giving birth and motherhood. As Horus was portrayed of the existing Pharaoh, Isis will be designated as the mother of the Pharaoh. The image of Isis and the child Horus was general in Egyptian art and it is in general acknowledged that they had a massive effect on the iconography. Power independent of her child, Isis was not only a mother, but a confident and skilled queen crown head and a very powerful. Isis knew the secret name of Ra. Ra, which gave her an unbelievable quality and specific of power. The Pyramid as symbol Texts points toward that Isis prophesized the killing of Osiris although she was powerless to stop it and her power even drawn-out outside the serious. At her persistence Anubis and Thoth planned the first ritual of mummification to give Osiris life after death and she herself managed to magically think of her son Horus by hovering over the body of her dead husband. She was one of the four protector goddesses along with Bast, Nephthys, and Hathor, or Nephthys, Selket and Neith who protected the sarcophagus and the Canopic jars which contained the internal organs. It was thought that she helped the dead on their problematic trip into the life after death and she was from time to time named as one of the adjudicators of the dead. The prominence of Isis and the status accorded to women on her behalf, strikes a rich vein in the ancient Egyptian world view when he attributes the prestige of a wife not only to worship of Isis but also “to the special honor accorded to her predecessors in pre-dynastic times, when women were regarded as the mysterious source of life, possessors of psychic powers beyond male experience, and guardians of the myths and traditions of the race” Saadawi N. E., The Hidden of Eve, 1982, p. 169.

5. Women Representation of Reviving Qualities of Nature