Who was Isis before She was Isis?

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Isiopolis

Back in 1962, an English archeologist named Peter Ucko wrote a landmark work entitled The Interpretation of Anthropomorphic Figurines. It challenged the idea that all these mainly-female figurines that many of us are fond of as ancient Goddess images are Goddess images at all.

Instead, he saw them as toys or concubine grave images or pregnancy talismans or sex instruction tools or…you get the picture: just about anything except Goddess images.

Beak-faced figurine with upraised arms and bent at the waist; predynastic Egyptian, now in the British Museum

Pre-Ucko, many archeologists interpreted the figurines as Divine beings, possibly as images of an overarching Great Mother (we do so love our monotheism). Post-Ucko, that theory was largely abandoned, perhaps with some relief in certain quarters, as too simplistic. But then researchers like Marija Gimbutas and Elaine Eisler revived the Great Mother theory in the ‘80s and ‘90s and helped spark the…

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