Isis

ISIS

Real Name: Isis

Class: God (Egyptian gods)

Occupation: Goddess

Group Affiliation: None

Known Relatives: Horus (son), Osiris (brother), Set (brother)

Aliases: None

Base of Operations: ancient Egypt

First Appearance: All-Flash #19 (June, 1945)

Powers: Isis was an immortal goddess.

History: (Egypt #5) - Osiris was killed and dismembered by his brother Set, and Isis searched all of Egypt to recover his body parts, but never found his member. She stitched him back together, and he was reborn as god of the dead. Khum Hetet, whose past lives included Vincent Me and Vin Centhotep, was brought to the land of the gods to act as their agent. Isis had resurrected Osiris, but Egypt was still in an age of darkness under Seth. Nephthys showed him a secret land she'd discovered and named the Valley of the Dead Gods, filled with mutilated Egyptian deities who still existed, and she admitted she didn't understand the significance. Isis made love to Khum to initiate a ritual, and Osiris revealed to him some of the knowledge of the gods. When Vin's wife Peshy died he mummified her, and demanded Isis bring her to the Western Lands to be reborn if he was to continue working as her agent.

(Egypt #6, 7) - Khum investigated the underworld and was chased off by Seth and high priest Soter. Isis opened a gate to save him, made love to him again, and made it clear she thought of him as a toy. Osiris showed him around his garden, and transported them to various scenes of horrific deaths, accusing Khum of being owned by his urges, and demanding to know if he felt kinship to the god. Osiris accompanied him and Nephthys to the Valley of the Dead Kings where fresh bodies were laid out, but again Khum promised he had no insights to share. He woke in the god's home, and when Osiris and Isis had a disagreement Osiris left, leaving their dwelling vulnerable to Seth. Seth created a sandstorm that killed Nephthys, and Isis' handmaiden opened the Eye of wedget to help them escape to a temple where Khum saw a colossal statue of Vincent Me in full pharaohnic garb. Khum and the handmaiden fell into a pit trap, and found them at the mercy of Soter, who revealed that he was the last disciple of the fathers, who used advanced technology to bring the Egyptian deities and the underworld to life. They used one of Khum's previous incarnations, who was mummified thousands of years ago, as a template, and the fathers intended for ancient Egypt to be completely static. Soter had tried to kill and recreate the gods with himself as a template, and had sown discord with them so they'd meet in a final battle, leveling the playing field for his new pantheon. With that Khum and the handmaiden were sent away from the temple. Khum reasoned that the gods were like him, in that they huffed and puffed, but raely accomplished anything. He talked to Seth, Nephthys , Isis, and Osiris, and convinced them to work together for once to achieve something. He got drunk at a bar while the gods destroyed Soter's temple and destroyed him, freeing Egypt from its static nature.

Comments: Adapted to comics by Gardner Fox & Martin Naydel.

Isis was a goddess from Egyptian mythology. For more information see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isis.