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TRIAD

A triad is an association of three kindred or correlated deities. In ancient Egypt, cycles of this type usually arose out of the association with the chief local god of other deities; in some instances the members were deemed to stand in the relationship of father, mother and child. Such were the Theban triad of Amen, Nut and Khons; the Memphite of Ptah, Sekhet and Nefertum; and the Osiris-Isis-Horus triad, which, n the Alexandrian form, comprised Serapis, Isis and Harpocrates.

In Babylonia, triads were derived from early conceptions of a cosmic trinity, such as Anu, Enlil and Ea representing sky, earth and water: and shin, Shamash and Ishtar, representing sun, moon and star. Early Aryan thought moved in the same direction in the Vedic triad of Agni, Indra and Surya, representing fire, wind and sun. out of this emerged the Brahman Trimurti, or three aspects, portrayed as a three-headed image in a famous sculpture at Elephanta, and comprising Brahma, the creator, Vishnu the preserver, and Siva the destroyer.

Buddhism adopted the principle in the Triratna, or three jewels, which were at first the Sangha or monastic order, portrayed as a man holding a lotus, the Buddha, and the Dharma, or sacred law.

The Triad Society of China, denoting the union of heaven, earth and man arose in the 18th century and became a powerful anti-dynastic movement.
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HELEN BLAVATSKY

Helen Blavatsky was a Russian occultist. She was born in 1831 and died in 1891. She married at the age of seventeen the sixty-year-old Baron Blavatsky, but left him at the end of three months. She made extensive travels in Europe, Asia, and North America, took up the subject of theosophy and Eastern lore, and with Colonel Olcott, an Englishman, founded in 1875 the Theosophic Society, whose leader she continued to be until her death in London in 1891. Besides editing a theosophistic journal, Lucifer the Lightbringer, she published various works, including The Secret Doctrine; Key to Theosophy; Isis Unveiled; etc.
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ANUBIS

Anubis (Anepo) was an ancient Egyptian god. He was the son of Osiris and Isis. He was depicted as having the head of a jackal. He guided the souls of the dead from this world into the next. He also weighed the actions of the deceased in the presence of Osiris.
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ANKH

The Ankh was the ancient Egyptian amulet of life symbolising immortality and life that is to come. It was formed of the combined male and female symbols of Osiris and Isis. It was usually employed as a pendant for a necklace.
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ASET

Aset was the original, and Egyptian name for the goddess later called Isis by the Greeks, and now generally known by the name Isis.
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BUBASTIS

In Egyptian mythology, Bubastis was the daughter of Isis. She was represented as having the head of a cat, the animal sacred to her.
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BUCKLE OF ISIS

The buckle of Isis was an ancient Egyptian amulet representing the
buckle of Isis and affording eternal protection to the wearer. It was traditionally made from carnelian, red jasper, red glass or another red substance (representing the blood of Isis), and sometimes of gold.
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HAP

In Egyptian mythology, Hap was the power of the god Ptah, symbolized by a bull and born when Ptah's thunderbolt made Isis pregnant. Hap acted as a messenger between gods and mortals, carrying the gods messages to Earth in the form of oracles, and travelling beside each soul as it made the perilous journey from this world to the next.
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HORUS

Horus was the Egyptian hawk-headed sun god, son of Isis and Osiris, of whom the pharaohs were declared to be the incarnation.
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ISIS

In Egyptian mythology, Isis (Aset) was the daughter of Nut and Geb and the sister of Osiris, Set and Nebthet. She and Osiris had a dual function as fertility gods: she over saw love and union, he was the god of growth. They ruled Egypt as husband and wife; he taught his subjects the rule of law and respect for the gods; she taught them marriage, household management and medicine. After Osiris was drowned and dismembered by their jealous brother Seth, Isis used her medical skills first to impregnate herself with the last drop of semen in her consort's penis, and then to reassemble the corpse and bring it back to life. The first magic worked, and she became pregnant with Horus. But the gods refused to let Osiris return to the world of mortals, and he went to rule in the Underworld, leaving Isis vowing revenge on Set. Instead of fighting him herself, she encouraged Horus to take every chance to try to kill him, and when this proved impossible she arranged for Horus to humiliate and disempower Set. In some accounts this happened when Horus
castrated Set in a duel, fit punishment for Set's crime of cutting off Osiris' penis and throwing it into the Nile.
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