Isis · Chapter 3 of 7
The Kite Over the Body
A bird form · A conception · Wings that shelter
The mourning bird and the mother are one picture.
One image in the tradition is older and stranger than the retellings keep. Egyptian texts and temple reliefs show her as a kite — a hunting bird — beating her wings above the body of Osiris, and it is in that form that she conceives Horus. The Pyramid Texts state it briefly, in the manner of something already known, and the Abydos chapels of Seti I carve it. The wings do double duty in Egyptian art: the same spread arms that shelter a coffin are the ones that fan breath back into it.
- A kite's shape
- Breath returned
- A son conceived
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