The Beauty of Isis: Sirius: The Star of Isis

Sunday, November 27, 2005

Sirius: The Star of Isis


To the left is an image of the star Sirius, captured by the Hubble Telescope. Sirius is actually two stars, Sirius A and Sirius B, and every 49 years, these stars flop and switch positions. There is some debate as to whether or not there exists a Sirius C.

The Star Sirius, also referred to as Sothis, is a symbol for Isis and is the entire basis of much of the Egyptian religion. Sirius was and is considered the embodiment of Isis and it appears in the nighttime sky in the Canis constellation.

The star Sirius was noted to appear in the morning sky, just before sunrise when it came time for the Nile to flood. Due to the fact that the Egyptians depended upon the flooding of the Nile to keep the lands fertile, Sirius then became the marker of fertility for the Egyptians. Priests were called upon to watch for the rising of Sirius. Interestingly, the way priests determined the rising of Sirius was by visiting the temple of Isis-Hathor at Denderah. Inside the temple was a statute of the goddess Isis—permanently fixed facing the location of the sky in which Sirius would appear. In fact, the Isis statue was fixed 20 degrees south of due east and pointed directly at the rising place of Sirius. The priests would then place a gem into the forehead of the Isis statue and when the light of the star Sirius strike the gem, the priests could then announce the New Year. Subsequently, the inscription on the Isis-Hathor Temple reads as follows:

"Her majesty Isis shines into the temple on New Year's Day, and she mingles her light with that of her father Ra on the horizon."

Noted as the “Dog Star” and affiliated with Osiris (as Osiris is often depicted with the head of a dog), Sirius is a star that shines very brightly, especially during the months of summer. In fact, it is so bright that the Egyptians acquired the belief that this star, in addition to the Sun’s light, was responsible for the increase in temperature during the summer months. As an end result, the term the “dog days of summer” is derived from this Egyptian belief.

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