{"collection":"Sacred Texts: The Classics","full_text_available":false,"graph_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/api/page/sacred_texts_v1_cla_pr_pr09_htm/graph","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/v2/page/sacred_texts_v1_cla_pr_pr09_htm","id":"sacred_texts_v1_cla_pr_pr09_htm","license":"unknown_pending_legal_review","rights_basis":"sacred_texts_v1_preview_gate_primary_text_only; acquisition-method/ToS and compilation-copyright questions still open, not resolved by this gate","source":"sacred_texts_v1","source_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/cla/pr/pr09.htm","summary":"THE chief contribution of Egypt to the religion of the Roman Empire was the cult of Isis in the form of a Hellenized development of that ancient Egyptian religion. From very early times Isis and Osiris held a unique position in the religious thought of the Egyptian people. Herodotus noted in his day that \"no other gods were worshiped in the same way by the whole of Egypt save only Isis and Osiris.\" The worship of other deities varied from place to place in different sections of the country.","tags":[],"text":null,"title":"Pagan Regeneration: Chapter VII: Isiac Initiation","tradition":"Sacred Texts: The Classics","translated_text":null,"word_count":7505}