Goddess Isis In The Coffin Text

Isis is the most significant goddess during the whole ancient Egypt history, and she played the indispensable role in the Heliopolitan Ennead. Isis' functions are various, such as the giver and protector of the kingship, the queen in the neitherworld, the sun goddess, the goddess of star (Sirius), the goddess of harvest, the goddess of art and so on. She influenced each level of the Egyptian society because the Egyptians believed in gods and goddesses devoutly, and in another hand the story among gods and goddesses reflected part of the reality of that time. The adoration of Isis started from Old Kingdom to the Ptolemic Kingdom, and reached a fastigium during the age of Hellenistic. When Christianism went into Egypt, her adoration was accepted by Christians. So Isis became the goddess whose worship is the longest and whose extension is the most fargoing.The foreign Egyptologists discussed Isis detailly while the domestic scholars' research on her often based on the writing of the foreign production, so the indirection of the sources must lead to some misunderstanding. Taking the theory of the German historian Ranke and basing on the collection of Adriaan de Buck, I researched one of the main sources of the ancient Egypt, the Coffin Text, to study how the functions of Isis are depicted in the origional material.My conclusion is Isis' functions of being the goddess of birth, the protector of the deceased, the giver and protector of the kingship and having some relationship with the running of the sun-bark are clearly discribed in the Coffin Text but the relationship with healing and arts is not specifically mentioned there. From the research of the Coffin Text, we can see the Egyptians' deep trust devoted to Isis and their pursuing to the nice aspects in the human characteristics.