~ May 27
It was the goddess who protected the god,
who searched for him without tiring,
who travelled the world lamenting,
who did not rest until she found him,
who made shade for him with her bright wings,
who breathed life back into him,
who revived his passion, who received his seed,
who bore the child, who raised the child,
the goddess, alone, did all this.
—Egyptian prayer to Isis, Eighteenth Dynasty,
1567-1320 B.C.E.
At times in our lives, we must confront loneliness. Others may surround us, even press in upon us, but in our souls we are lonely. It feels like a kind of starvation, as though some vital food is missing. During such times we can feel distant from our spiritual sources as well as from other people. It can seem as though the goddess has abandoned us, cast us adrift without her guidance.
Ancient religions depict the goddess, too, going through such stark periods of needy solitude. Yet, like Isis in the prayer above, the goddess survives and endures. Myths of the goddess not only reveal images of nature and the universal order. They are also stories that help us understand the happenings in our own lives. When Isis loses her beloved brother-husband Osiris, but finds and restores him to life, she exemplifies the transition between periods of loss and those of rebirth within our own human lives.
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