OSIRIS (Male): Another one of "The Big Nine." Pretty much THE name for a fine male cat who bears a rather heroic stature. Osiris was the brother/husband of ISIS and was considered the noblest of the gods. He was known by many distinguished titles such as, "Universal Lord", "Lord of life after death", "Good Shepherd", to name just a few. In fact, The Egyptian Book of the Dead catalogues over 200 names attributed to Osiris. He was the god of commerce and success, of religion, civilization, and law. He was believed to have taught the Egyptians the various arts and crafts necessary to maintaining society. Unfortunately, his brother SET was a bit jealous of his popularity and saw to it that Osiris was murdered and his body sent far away. After a long and miserable search, Isis found her dead husband and through a miraculous occurrence, was impregnated by him, by which she gave birth to the new sun god HORUS

 
ISIS (Female): The supreme goddess. Arguably the greatest of all Egyptian deities, certainly the most influential on subsequent cultures. She was the ideal figure of womanhood. Usually compared with DEMETER and HERA, Isis nevertheless measured far superior over these pale imitations. Isis was one element of a Holy Trinity, the remaining two figures being her brother/husband OSIRIS and their heroic son HORUS. One of her sacred symbols was the sistrum, which was a sort of rattle that was believed to ward off evil spirits. Isis's sistrum was carved bearing the image of a cat and was representative of the Moon. She was the High Priestess and an omnipotent magician as well as the only Being ever to discover the secret name of Ra. Such a goddess as this epitomizes all the mysteries of divinity and as such.

 
HORUS (HOR-us; Male): You could write a book the size of the Manhattan Telephone Directory concerning this most complex and important god, but all you really need to know is: A) He was a sun god, specifically the god of the NEW rising sun; B) He was the son of ISIS and her dead husband/brother OSIRIS (sibling marriages were quite a common motif as you may have guessed by now); C) He was associated with cats. Actually, Horus was sort of an all round hero kind of god with several different names and attributes such as, "Horus the elder"; "Horus the great"; "Horus of the horizon"; "Horus who is ON the horizon"; "Horus the child"; "Horus of two lands".

 

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