Legend of Isis: Omnibus #3


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Volume 3 of the hit comic book series. Horus steals The Staff of Luxor and goes to unsavory extremes to find and annihilate Isis' soul. This treachory-ridden issue is utterly devoid of family values and is filled, start to finish, with depraved violence. The edition also has crossovers with 10th Muse and more!




Legend of Isis: Omnibus #1


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“Oh Mighty Isis”! The sold-out comic series that started at Image Comics! Trapped 5,000 years out of time, the would-be Egyptian goddess, Isis, must adjust to her new life in 21st Century Los Angeles. Using her mystical staff and some help from a few new friends, Isis will protect those around her from evil that may threaten their world. But how can she protect a world that she doesn't fully understand? Join Isis in her ongoing series debut as she's introduced to the modern world and its new ways of life. But it seems Isis is not the only ancient warrior alive in our time, as she must battle the mummy of Sekhent, upon her awakening from the dead! For the first time Volume one has over 400-pages including never before seen images of Isis.




Legend of Isis: Omnibus #2


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Volume 2 of the hit sold out comic book series that started at Image Comics. Isis' life is getting back to normal when a mysterious package arrives at her doorstep, leading her toward a battle with the gruesome Scarab Queen! This special edition features crossovers with the 10th Muse, Judo Girl and the rest of the TidalWave characters. The Legend of Isis has been optioned by Paramount Pictures and is soon to be a feature film!




The Keeper of the Isis Light


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Sixteen-year-old Olwen, who lives alone on the planet Isis with her faithful robot, falls tragically in love with an arrival from earth who is unaware that her natural form has been hidden in a humanlike space suit.




Gene Of Isis


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the spellbinding new trilogy from the author of the bestselling Ancient Future. Mia Montrose is a 21st-century Australian woman with a Doctorate in Ancient Languages who has just scored the most promising job of her career.When Mia experiences mysterious happenings and forces beyond her control, she begins to understand that history does not always stay in the past.Ashlee Granville is a 19th-century clairvoyant, forced to suppress her talents as she enters the marriage market of English upper-class society. But Ashlee is not a girl who likes to bow to the inevitable - she has plans of her own.Lillet du Lac is a 13th-century woman, priestess of an ancient order now protected by the Cathar faith, who are making their last stand against the Roman Catholic Franks at the giant hill fort of Montsegur. As the castle falls, Lillet escapes with something more valuable than any of their lives ... Despite the time, distance and cultures that separate them, these women have several things in common. they belong to an ancient bloodline of Grail kings, protected by a Sion knight named Albray, and they are each compelled to visit an ancient mountain in the Sinai. this mountain contains the keys which may unlock a gateway to a dimension of light and the Gene of Isis.




Science Fiction, Fantasy, & Horror


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A comprehensive bibliography of books and short fiction published in the English language.










Isis Pelagia: Images, Names and Cults of a Goddess of the Seas


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In Isis Pelagia: Images, Names and Cults of a Goddess of the Seas, Laurent Bricault, one of the principal scholars of the cults of Isis, presents a new interpretation of the multiple sources that present Isis as a goddess of the seas. Bricault discusses a wealth of relatively unknown archaeological and textual data, drawing on a profound knowledge of their historical context. After decades of scholarly study, Bricault offers an important contribution and a new phase in the debate on understanding the “diffusion” as well as the “reception” of the cults of Isis in the Graeco-Roman world. This book, the first English-language monograph by the leading French scholar in the field, underlines the importance of Isis Studies for broader debates in the study of ancient religion.




Witches, Isis and Narrative


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This is the first in-depth study of Apuleius' Metamorphoses to look at the different attitudes characters adopt towards magic as a key to deciphering the complex dynamics of the entire work. The variety of responses to magic is unveiled in the narrative as the protagonist Lucius encounters an assortment of characters, either in embedded tales or in the main plot. A contextualized approach illuminates Lucius' relatively good fortune when compared to other characters in the novel ‒ this results from his involvement with the magic of a sorcerer's apprentice, rather than that of a real witch, and signals the possibility of eventual salvation. A careful investigation of Lucius' attitude towards Isis in book 11 and his relationship with the witch-slave girl Photis earlier on suggests that the novel's final book may be read as a second "Metamorphoses", consciously rewritten from a positive perspective. Last but not least, the book also breaks new ground by examining the narrative structure of the Metamorphoses against the background of the typical plotline found in the ideal romance. The comparison shows how Apuleius both follows and alters this plot, exploiting the genre to his own specific ends, in keeping with his central theme of metamorphosis.