I’d like to share with you some beautiful art of Our Lady that was shared with me recently.
I absolutely adore the fact that She inspires so much art. It seems that sometimes art is the only way we can express our feelings for Her or our experiences with Her. For me, often, it is the art of ritual that helps me both express and share my love of Her. For others, it’s poetry or visual arts or music. What about you? Is there an art that you use to express yourself about or to Her?
This beautiful altar image was commissioned by my fellow Isiac, Patrick, who so kindly shared it with me. It is based on a compilation of some of the next images, with personal touches requested by Patrick. The artist is Lupherd Hernandez Lozada. The Latin beneath Her feet says, “You, being One, are All, Goddess Isis.”
And here are some photos from the Egyptian Museum in Cairo that inspired this lovely sacred image:
I’ve been wondering who or Who these amazing images on the facade of the Egyptian Museum in Cairo are supposed to be. Isis and Cleopatra are the most common identifications. But according to the Egyptian Museum itself, They are Goddesses representing Lower Egypt and Upper Egypt. The Goddess above is the Goddess of Lower Egypt with the uraeus on Her crown…so Wadjet.
So this must be Nekhbet. It looks like Her crown has several lotus buds on it, the flower emblem of Upper Egypt. Both Goddesses were sculpted by the French artist Ferdinand Faivre (1860-1937). It may be that They aren’t intended to be specific Goddesses, but just She of Lower Egypt and She of Upper Egypt.
Faivre also carved the keystone image. Now this one most likely IS supposed to be Isis, perhaps as a Goddess Who unites the Two Lands or just as the most well-known Egyptian Goddess at the time the sculptor was working.
Here is the Egyptian archeologist and the architects of the museum with the keystone image.
And here they are raising the Isis keystone into place.
And how they all look on the front of the museum. Note the papyrus and lotuses uniting Upper and Lower Egypt in the water pool.
So, do you do art about or for Isis? Please feel free to share in the comments.
