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ISIS
Isis was the wife of Osiris, mother of Horus, sister of Set and Nephthys. She was also the daughter of Nuit and Geb. She was the first Egyptian goddess born to live on Earth, and has been known as the goddess of women and children and the mother of all living things. She traveled around Egypt teaching women the skills of weaving, cooking and raising children, and also helped during the process of childbirth. Isis was traveling when she heard that her beloved husband Osiris was dead (Set had tricked Osiris into a golden chest, sealed him in it, and threw him into the Nile).
She was horrified when she learned that her brother Set had murdered him. She wandered the country in search of the body of Osiris while pulling out her hair, throwing dirt on herself and beating her chest. Once she found the corpse of her husband she began working her magic to revive him. Isis managed to restore enough life to Osiris to conceive Horus. Soon after Set got word that Osiris was no longer dead and this made him quite angry. He tracked him down and cut his body into 14 pieces and threw them into the Nile. She, along with Nephthys and Anubis, traveled up and down the Nile in search of the pieces of Osiris, and were able to find 13 pieces (wherever they found a piece they erected a temple to Osiris). Isis asked Thoth for his assistance in resurrecting Osiris, and he taught her the process of mummification. This process insured the deceased a life after death and in the case of Osiris, it secured him the position of King of the Underworld. Isis was greatly saddened by the death of her true love, but she was consoled in the fact that he still lived and that she was pregnant with Horus. Isis was told by Thoth that Horus would avenge his father's death and become the rightful heir of his kingdom.
Set found out that Isis was pregnant and he knew Horus would be a threat to his kingship, and thus it became his goal to find Isis and prevent the birth of her child. Isis tried to hide, but Set found her and persuded her to go to his home. There he locked her in a room. Shortly before Horus was due to be born, Thoth came to her and told her it was time for her to leave. When it came time for birth, Horus was born in a papyrus swamp. Soon Isis realized that Horus would be safer if he was not with her, so she left him in the custody of another woman.
This was hard for her, but she knew that we he came of age, she would be a part of his life again. She was present at one of the many battles between Horus and Set. Horus nearly had Set beat and Isis felt great sorrow for Set so she ordered Horus to release him. Horus was so angry by his mother's betrayal that he cut off her head. Thoth promptly replaced it with the head of a cow. Other accounts state that Horus only knocked off her crown.
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