The Festival Of Isis: Roman Religion

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The main thing about “The Festival of Isis” is that she was the “Mother” Indians, Egyptians, and Romans people. She married her brother and they had children, also she was worshiped during predynastic times around 3100 BCE.She was mostly known as “Virgin Mary”, her job was to restore love for the people in bad love situation.Isis was prayed for because they called her the protector, by protecting the pharaoh, so people really prayed to her for protection.The festival outlived christian persecution by theodosius,and arcadius persecution against the Roman Religion. In the roman empire it was still celebrated in italy for 416 year’s. The Navigium Isidis or Isidis Navigium (trans. the vessel of Isis)[1] was an annual ancient Roman religious festival

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