Here’s a picture featuring bronze ππ€ππ¦ statues πππππΎπͺ! of Isis π¨ππ₯, Horus π π, and Osiris πΉπ¨π at the Brooklyn Museum!
Osiris πΉπ¨π was one of the main figures of Egyptian religion. This is because Osiris πΉπ¨π was the god πΉ of the dead and the ruler of the afterlife, and Egyptians spent their entire time living preparing for their death and meeting with Osiris πΉπ¨π. When the pharaoh ππ» was alive, he was thought to be the living image ππ ±ππΉ of the God πΉ Horus π π, but more importantly when the pharaoh ππ» died, he was thought to then become an Osiris-like figure.
The image ππ ±π of Isis π¨ππ₯ feeding Horus π π as a baby is one of the most popular images ππ ±ππ¦ of the Late Period through the Ptolemaic Period. Symbolically, Isis π¨ππ₯ was thought to be the mother πΏππ of the pharaoh ππ», and was often associated with motherhood π ππ, the protection of women, and a user of magic. As Isis π¨ππ₯ became a more popular religious figure, she was associated with cosmological order and was considered to be the embodiment of fate by the Romans. This image ππ ±π of a mother π ππ holding a child is thought to have inspired the well known Catholic images of the Virgin Mary holding Jesus as a baby.