The Goddess Isis as Magician Bronze Roman Period, probably 1st century A.D.) Brooklyn #05.395, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund Small statue of Osiris Bronze Third Intermediate Period, XXI Dynasty-XXV Dynasty Brooklyn #37.565E, Charles Edwin Wilbour Fund (And it's a Horus falcon to the far left.) Photo © Joan Ann Lansberry (The relief behind Isis is of Prince Khaemwaset Photos © Joan Lansberry, May 2008, top photo May 2012

(From the info card): "Isis here holds a divine cobra, sometimes described as 'great of magic,' as if it were a magic wand symbolic of power and a conductor of supernatural force. For the Egyptians and many other cultures, a name was an integral part of its owner. Isis herself became 'great of magic' by leanring the the sun-god Re's secret name. With it, she could use Re's magic to revive her husband Osiris..." Ritner in _Mechanics of Ancient Egyptian Magical Practice_(page 33), makes reference to Isis: "Isis...who repels the deeds of the enchanters by the spells of her mouth." "Further unrecognized examples of sp.w, "spells" (translated 'deeds') appear in Faulkner 1958, pp. 29* and 13 (col. 18/12): 'Isis Lady of spells' (cf. col. 18/13" 'Isis who pacifies the gods with what she says')..." (Robert Ritner, _Mechanics of Ancient Egyptian Magical Practice_, (University of Chicago 1993) page 69 Footnotes) Furthermore, Isis speaks via the Metternich stela: "I am Isis the goddess, the possessor of magic, who performs magic, effective of speech, excellent of words." (Ritner, page 34)