This magnificent coal-black statue displays Egyptian Mother Goddess Isis in winged triumph. Notice her delicately sculpted wings and noble profile. This resin image of the winged goddess looks like the original statue carved from basalt and housed in the Cairo Museum.

Black resin.

[Originals housed in the Cairo Museum]

Handpainted Resin statue.

In this Hellenistic statue from Alexandria, Egypt, the Baubo gesture is given by none other than Isis, the original "Mother of God." She wears a full-length gown, ceremonial headdress and tranquil smile. Her affirming stance says: "We are the life-givers.... It is our vulvas, our wombs, that are the center. Never forget that!"

[private collection, 2nd century BCE]

White marble colored Gypsum stone.

With her sun-disc/moon crescent crown in this statue, Isis Queen of Heaven and Earth represents the Mother Goddess aspect. She is the prototype of the Mother of God later adopted by the Christian tradition. Sekmet, the ravaging lioness, with her burning solar eye, is the goddess's destroyer/devourer aspect.

Black gold colored Ganges clay.

Blue/bronze colored Gypsumstone.

When Alexander the Great conquered Egypt in the 4th century B.C.E., Egyptian art took a decidedly Hellenistic turn. This beautiful reproduction of the black basalt statues recently recovered from the Mediterranean Sea off the coast of Alexandria is the classical Lady whose "divinity is adored throughout all the world in divers manners, in variable customs, and by many names." As Apuleius describes Her speech, "I am she that is the natural mother of all things, mistress and governess of all the elements, the initial progeny of worlds, chief of the powers divine, queen of all that are in hell, the principal of them that dwell in heaven, manifested alone and under one form of all the gods and goddesses."

Black resin

Blue Isis Egyptian Faience Blue. This glazed earthenware finish was the original holy blue of sacred purity. Initiates into the cult of Isis spoke of seeing her sending out rays of blue light of grace and salvation. Her name comes from Egyptian Ashesh, which means both supporting and pouring out (of milk). Isis is called the Oldest of the Old, who existed from the beginning, the Goddess from whom all beginning arose.

Blue color resin