Til Death Do Us Part

I wanted to write this story to try to find Isis' motivation for going around the world looking for her dead husband. The first section is more of a prologue. The second deals more with the legacy of Osiris and the impending birth of Horus, the catalyst that puts her out of grief and into action. Isis is very single-minded in the original myth: even after Horus is born, she leaves him with a friend and continues to look for Osiris. I think that making him (Osiris) the reason that she is able to pull herself from her sadness is important to keeping with the tone of the original, but not as a mad-woman tirelessly looking for her husband's corpse (ew) but because she doesn't want to stray from the vision he had of her: powerful, insatiable, determined.

The original myth highlights her grief again and again, but grief is a paralytic. I think that focusing on her love makes it easier to understand her actions, and even though grief is something she must overcome. I like to think of Isis as a proud goddess, so even though she is motivated by grief, love for her husband, and probably revenge against Set, I think that personal pride is also a reason that she does so much to restore both Osiris and Egypt.

If you don't know much about the Egyptian pantheon, the situation with Anubis is a little confusing. Anubis, as far as I understand from the reading, is Osiris' son but not Isis' son. In one myth, he's actually the product of Nepthys (goddess of night and sleep, and the wife of Set) pretending to be Isis and seducing Osiris--wild, right?