Isis

Isis (Ἶσις) is the Greek name for an Egyptian goddess whose worship spread throughout the Greco-Roman world. Isis was worshiped throughout Egypt, considered to the patron saint of women, mothers and children. She is also referred to as the goddess of magic.

In Greco-Roman literature Isis began to be regarded as the goddess of knowledge and wisdom. Plutarch (46 to 120 CE), an influential Greek scholar, describes her as "a goddess exceptionally wise and a lover of wisdom, to whom, as her name at least seems to indicate, knowledge and understanding are in the highest degree appropriate..."

She is the sister-wife of Osiris and mother of Horus.