Within The Temple Of Isis

"Within the Temple of Isis" is a fictional account set in the Temple of Isis complex in ancient Egypt. The Priestess of Isis is disappointed when one of her attendants, Sarthia, is unable to perform her part during a burial service of a high ranking nobleman, and embarrassingly has to be withdrawn from the ceremony. But the Priestess is further horrified to learn that Sarthia's reason for her mistake is linked to the visions she has been having recently. Visions of the Bird of Nu, the Owl, messenger of death...

We are safe in saying that "Within The Temple of Isis" is unique and stands alone. There is no other book in print like it, and if Solomon of old had not said, "There is nothing new under the sun," we would be inclined to contradict him. "Within the Temple of Isis" God's word was law as interpreted by his Hierophants; their oneness with the fountain of Being made them conscious of Nature's secret operations, and enabled them, as it does the wise ones of to-day, to enter the Temple of Isis and observe the hidden mysteries concealed behind the veil.

Rescue of the temples of Philae from the Nile is an enterprise of imagination and skill.

This book examines the appetite for Egyptian and Egyptian-looking artwork in Italy during the century following Rome's annexation of Aegyptus as a province. In the early imperial period, Roman interest in Egyptian culture was widespread, as evidenced by works ranging from the monumental obelisks, brought to the capital over the Mediterranean Sea by the emperors, to locally made emulations of Egyptian artifacts found in private homes and in temples to Egyptian gods. Although the foreign appearance of these artworks was central to their appeal, this book situates them within their social, political, and artistic contexts in Roman Italy. Swetnam-Burland focuses on what these works meant to their owners and their viewers in their new settings, by exploring evidence for the artists who produced them and by examining their relationship to the contemporary literature that informed Roman perceptions of Egyptian history, customs, and myths.

The first translation, with commentary, of the earliest and most important hymns to Egyptian goddess Isis.

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