One of the great but largely untold adventure stories of antiquity is the journey to the East, from the ports of the Egyptian Red Sea, across the open sea for 40 days and 40 nights, to the legendary Muziris transshipment yard, on the coast of southwest India or Malabar, where today we find Kerala. It was a great art of navigation, a technological leap comparable to the discovery of America or Drake's circumnavigation of the Earth. 

Mysterious Musiris

This maritime trade was at its peak in the time of Jesus, and it was necessary to build a small Greco-Roman trading colony to handle the expanding trade between India and the Roman Empire. This colony was large enough to house the Roman Temple, which is clearly visible on ancient maps. The exact location of Muziris is still one of the mysteries of the classical world.

Religion is a special subject of maritime trade. This area of ​​India is very cosmopolitan. It was a point where Christians, Jews, Muslims and others from East Asian nations, which had a significant presence in India, landed. The Egyptian goddess Isis became famous as the patron saint of the sea, the protector of sailors. The Greek captains of the Roman trading galleon no doubt worshiped her.

The revelation of the goddess Isis in Indian culture is the joint work of several important scholars. In the beginning, Pattini was identified as the veil goddess, the only one in Hindu mythology, which led scholars like Dr. Richard Fynes to hypothesize a connection to the Middle East. Isis wasn't really veiled for most of her history until her cult came to India.

Professor Kamil Zvelebil also discovered much about maritime trade between the ancient Middle East and southern India. My research Isis, the Goddess of Egypt and India, further reveals the similarities between the classic mystic cult and the mythology of Buddhist / Jainist goddess Pattini.

Prominent Princeton anthropologist Gunanath Obeyesekere conducted extensive field research and recorded songs and myths in the area. Almost immediately, he noticed that almost all of them contained a unique mythology in India, where a dead god is resurrected by the magical power of his wife, a veiled goddess.

Isis and the resurrection of Osiris

The Egyptian version of the myth is about a fratricidal power struggle in his most important divine family. We have five famous children of Heaven-Mother Nuit and Earth-Father Geba: Isis, Osiris, Seth, Nepthys and Horus. Like the biblical Cain and Abel, Seth kills his brother Osiris in jealous anger and then quarters his body and saves parts. Because Osiris has no adult successor, his brother Seth can occupy his throne. In the drama, Isis searches for and eventually finds her husband's quartered body. It revives Osiris, which gives us an archetypal and earliest version of the myth of a dying and subsequently resurrected god.

But the result of her efforts does not last long, the revival of Osiris is a temporary state, the time is just for the birth of a magical son, who later grows up, protected by his mother to avenge his father and assume his rightful role on the Egyptian throne.