{"product_id":"9781906958718","title":"Isis: Goddess of Egypt \u0026 India","description":"On India's south-western or Malabar coast is situated an ancient Hindu temple devoted to the famous god Shiva and his consort the fearsome Kali. But an earlier dedication was to the Buddhist\/Jaina goddess Pattini, whose mortal husband was tried and killed in a series of brutal events still commemorated in the temple's ritual year. And before this the story gets even stranger, as there are said to be the remains of a secret, underground shrine, the home to a mystery cult dedicated to the Egyptian goddess Isis.\u003cp\u003eGreek, Roman \u0026amp; Near Eastern merchants travelled to India after a regular, if epic, sea journey of two thousand miles across the Arabian Ocean, making their first landfall at a port known in the ancient world as Musiris. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe story begins on the banks of the Nile when Isis and Osiris were the beating heart of Egypt's most popular religion. I will trace their origins to the Egypt's pyramid age in the middle of the second millennia bce and even earlier. A great deal of this book is devoted to describing what is known about their cult from Egyptian records. This, I shall argue, is the basis for what comes later in the time-line, when Greek and Roman Empires dominated the Mediterranean world. Now Isis and Osiris become the focus of a global religion and the basis of the most popular of all classical mystery cults.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Mandrake","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48289681146096,"sku":"9781906958718","price":24.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781906958718_p0.jpg?v=1764109548","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781906958718","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}