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The Iseo Campense - The Great Temple of ISIS in Rome - I. .P. .H. . Guillermo Calvo Soriano, 33rd
The Iseo Campense - The Great Temple of ISIS in Rome - I. .P. .H. . Guillermo Calvo Soriano, 33rd
Campense
The Great Temple
of ISIS in Rome
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The Cult was suspended first by Agrippa (in 23 B.C.) and then
by Tiberius. The Cult was later reintroduced by Caligula
and lasted until the End of the Empire.
Among the Obelisks that adorned the complex,
the one of the Pantheon is still visible.
a
Cacco
Fountain
of Baboon Intastato.
Still remembered
today...
The Table of Isis, exquisitely made, but
the hieroglyphics are meaningless
and the cult scenes seem invented.
We do not know if they represent
a divinity, then their attributes are quite
arbitrary. The Center figure in a Chapel
is Isis. This Table was probably made
by Roman workers, who copied poorly,
unfamiliar with Egyptian religion.
They expressed in their metallurgical art,
what they could, bearing important
testimony to the metallurgical techniques
of ancient Rome, with the surface
decorated with various types of metals,
both precious and vile.
The predominant metals were silver,
The Table of Isis gold combined with copper, also tin.
Egyptian Lions in the Fountains of Piazza del Popolo.
In the Vatican Gregorian
Egyptian Museum
Sistrum
Lustral
Vessel
Sistula
Sistrum Sistula
Osiris-Apis (Serapis)
Two Faces Front
Born from the Lotus Flower
“I am Mother and Nature of All Things, Lady of All Elements,
Beginning and Generation of Centuries, Eldest of the Gods
and Queen of all the Dead, first and only gola of all the gods
and Goddesses of Heaven,
that I dispense with my Power
and Command the resplendent
Heights of Heaven
and the healthy Waters
of the Sea,
and the Secret Cries of Hell...
To me alone and only goddess
honors and sacrifices
the whole World,
in many Names.
The Trojans, who were the first
born in the world, call me
Pesinunta, Mother of the
Gods”.
“Hence also the Athenians, call me
Minerva Cecropea, and those of Cyprus,
who dwell near the Sea, Venus Paphia. The
Archers and Sagittarians of Crete, Diana.
Sicilians of three languages
call me Proserpina. The Eleusinians,
the ancient goddess Demeter. Others call
me Hera, others Bellona, others Hecate,
others Ranusia. The Arians,
The Ethiopians, illustrated by the boiling
rays of the Sun, when it is born.
The Egyptians, Powerful and Wise,
where the entire Doctrine was born,
when they honor and sacrifice me
with my own Rites and Ceremonies,
call me my True Name,
which is Queen ISIS...” Apuleius
ISIS
Iseum of
Herculanum.
Pompeii