Isis | Denial Isn't Just a River
Spirits
Multitude
4.8 • 2K Ratings
🗓️ 3 July 2024
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
We’re talking this week about Isis, the Egyptian Head Queen in Charge! She’s out there doing magic, bringing people back from the dead, controlling scorpions, all sorts of things. If you’re not impressed, you’re not listening.
Content Warning: This episode contains conversations about or mentions of colonialism, death, grieving, xenophobia, religious persecution, pregnancy and birth, drowning, dismemberment, fire, animal attacks, poisoning, child endangerment, and genitals.
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Spirits is a boozy podcast about mythology, legends, and folklore. Every episode, co-hosts Julia and Amanda mix a drink and discuss a new story or character from a wide range of places, eras, and cultures. Learn brand-new stories and enjoy retellings of your favorite myths, served over ice every week, on Spirits.
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| 0:00.0 | The |
| 0:07.0 | The Welcome to Spirits podcast, a boozy dive into mythology, legends, and folklore. |
| 0:33.1 | Every week we pour a drink and learn about a new story from around the world. |
| 0:36.6 | I'm Amanda. |
| 0:37.2 | And I'm Julia. |
| 0:38.3 | And we're finally at Amanda, one of my favorite goddesses, one that we've been making reference to many times at this point. |
| 0:46.2 | But finally, we get to dive into the stories of the Egyptian head bitch in charge herself, ISIS. |
| 0:54.0 | Oh, I'm so ready. |
| 0:55.2 | This is definitely the goddess I have heard the most about, I would say, in Egyptian mythology. |
| 1:00.0 | And she's obviously played a role in so many of the stories we've already covered. |
| 1:03.6 | So I'm stoked to learn more about her. |
| 1:05.3 | Yeah. |
| 1:05.6 | So over the course of Egyptian history, as Egyptian mythology has evolved, she has played a series of important |
| 1:13.0 | roles among the cosmology. She is out there restoring human souls back to life. She is welcoming |
| 1:19.3 | the dead into the afterlife. She is giving birth to kings and getting revenge on those who wronged her. |
| 1:25.2 | She is clever. She is powerful. She is important. So let's get to it. |
| 1:29.7 | I love it. She is the moment. She's ISIS. So first things first, we'll be using the name ISIS because |
| 1:36.4 | that is her most well-known name. But this is also like kind of her, her Greek name, her colonizer name, |
| 1:42.0 | rather than her Egyptian name, which is Iset, which means |
| 1:46.0 | she of the throne. |
| 1:47.8 | Incredible. Great name. |
| 1:49.1 | Yes. She also has a couple of other titles like Woman of the Lotus and Devoted Mother |
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