This month my Full Moon Altar honours the Egyptian Great Goddess Isis. Known as the "Lady of Ten Thousand Names," Isis subsumes all other goddesses in her being. In ancient times, she was revered in Egypt and throughout the Mediterranean and Middle East, including Greece and Rome.
Seated on a desert sand altar cloth, Isis embodies and is surrounded by powerful symbols of the Life Force. Her sacred bird-of-prey wings protect both the living and the dead, sheltering her people in this life and in the next. Isis' wings are also the means by which the goddess fanned the Breath of Life back into her deceased husband Osiris, thereby resurrecting him.
On the altar's left is the stylized symbol called the Eye of Ra, the life-giving and life-sustaining Sun God. The Eye of Ra is considered to be the feminine aspect of Ra and a goddess in her own right. On the altar's right is the Ankh symbol, known as the Key of Life.
I bought my statue of Isis here in Edmonton about 25 years ago. It appears to be modelled on this wall painting of Isis in the tomb of Seti I --
[Photos #1 and #2 © Debra She Who Seeks, 2026;
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