Isis, giver of life, residing in the Sacred Mound, Satis, Lady of Bigeh:
She is the one who pours out the Inundation
That makes all people live and green plants grow,
Who provides divine offerings for the gods,
And invocation-offerings for the Transfigured Ones.
Because she is the Lady of Heaven,
Her man is the Lord of the Netherworld,
Her son is Lord of the Land,
Her man is the pure water, rejuvenating himself in Bigeh in his time.
Indeed, She is the Lady of Heaven, Earth, and the Netherworld,
Having brought them into existence through what her heart conceived and
her hands created,
She is the ba that is in every city,
Watching over her son Horus and her brother Osiris.
~ translation by Louis Zabkar in Hymns to Isis in Her Temple at Philae
This is another Hymn to Isis from the temple complex on the island of Philae. The Hymns can be viewed on the back walls. Osiris was believe to be buried on the island of Bigeh and the temple on the island was referred to as Abaton or “untrodden place” because only priests were allowed to set foot on it. Sadly, only ruins remain on Bigeh.
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